India will install 31GW of solar capacity by 2019, which is short of a projected 69GW government target, but the market will still grow at an “impressive pace”, according to the latest forecasts from consultancy firm Bridge to India.
India has officially approved its well-publicised 100GW by 2022 solar capacity target after a meeting of India’s Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Power engineering company Bechtel has dismissed concerns that its 358MW Soda Mountain solar project proposed for the Mojave Desert will be setback without the city of Los Angeles purchasing electricity from it.
Clenergy, best known for its mounting systems for utility-scale and commercial rooftop solar power systems, has financed and constructed a 30MW grid-connected PV plant in Zhongwei, China.
Leading microinverter firm Enphase Energy has supplied over 3,200 C250 microinverters to a single 900kW commercial PV installation in Marion, Massachusetts, its largest installation to date using the commercial microinverter.
Egyptian manufacturing company Elsewedy Electric is to start work on a 50MW project in Egypt’s Benban province, the latest in a string of solar deals in the country.
SunEdison has been granted a special permit by the Hawaii Land Use Commission to build a 50MW solar plant within the Kawailoa Plantation on the North shore of Oahu.
A subsidiary of US online retail giant Amazon will back the construction of an 80MW solar farm in Virginia to power its data centre. The Amazon Solar Farm US East will be the largest in the state.
Distributed solar energy provider Vivint Solar and construction firm Brahma Group have entered into an agreement for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of solar energy projects for commercial and industrial businesses and organizations across the US.
