Russian electric power industry and heat supply firm T Plus, a subsidiary of Russian conglomerate Renova, has completed a 25MW solar PV plant and plans a further 135MW solar capacity.
The Indian state of Uttarakhand has invited applications for the installation of 10MW of grid-connected rooftop PV and small-scale solar systems of 5kW size each.
Australia’s second largest PV plant, the 56MW Moree Solar Farm in Northern New South Wales, developed by Spanish firm Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV), has started feeding power to the grid.
Major PV energy provider SunPower has said its recently launched ‘Helix’ Roof product was able to be installed by at least two and a half times faster than competing commercial rooftop systems, after consultancy DNV GL undertook a ‘Mounting System Installation Efficiency Test’ in December 2015.
As another big US CSP project bites the dust having previously rejected the suggestion that it should re-apply as a PV project, John Parnell explores whether CSP, especially power towers, risk becoming the Betamax of solar energy.
