Projects

Two engineers working on First Solar's Desert Sunlight Solar Farm were killed yesterday when their plane crashed near the construction site close to Joshua Tree National Park.

With previous guidance given on developing between 50MW - 100MW of PV projects in 2013, JA Solar is significantly boosting its plans for next year with agreements from the Hebei Provincial Development to develop three 100MW projects.

In July mounting system manufacturer Clenergy completed work on a 20.6MW ground mount solar PV system in Yanqi County, Xinjiang, China.

The North American Development bank has loaned T Solar US$67.7 million, through land developers Sol Orchard for a 20MW solar plant.

Japanese telecommunications provider Softbank, which recently purchased US mobile company Sprint for US$20 billion, is considering the construction of a 40MW solar power plant in central Japan.

Toshiba International has begun construction on a 4MW solar project on the island of St Croix with the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA).

Solar cell and module manufacturer China Sunergy has signed two contracts to supply 9.9MW of solar modules in Romania with EPC firm Bester Generacion.

Solea and Pinpoint Ventures Holding have announced they are working on the 100MW Raasi Solar Park in Tamil Nadu in the south of India.

Construction will begin in a "matter of weeks" on the first utility-scale solar plant to be built on a Native American reserve it was announced today at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas.

The 345MW Copper Mountain Solar 3 PV power plant project being built by AMEC in Boulder City, Nevada is to use 1.1 million PV modules supplied by Trina Solar.