Projects

Spanish PV developer, OPDE has received planning permission for a 10.8MW solar farm in Somerset in southern England.

The 500MW Palen concentrating solar power (CSP) project has withdrawn its planning application less than a week after authorities said it had to be scaled down.

A joint venture involving GE Energy Financial Services has secured a loan worth more than US$800 million for the building of Japan’s largest solar power project to date.

SPI Solar has said that it had acquired three PV power plant projects totalling around 19.8MW to be developed in Japan as part of bigger plans to grow its business in the country.

Spanish PV developer Solarpack has inaugurated a 25MW project in Chile that will provide power for a mining company.

India's Tata Power Solar has announced the completion of five solar power projects for the Chennai Silks group.

Japanese telecoms giant Softbank has revealed a plan to build a 5.8MW solar farm in Hiroshima through its renewable energy projects division, SB Energy.

Utility Duke Energy has announced partner companies have been chosen to help build three solar power projects in the state of North Carolina.

SunEdison has completed a 1.8MW PV project on a designated Superfund site in Massachusetts.

LDK Solar majority-owned developer SPI Solar has announced a wave of acquisitions and forthcoming projects in China and Hawaii, having also acquired 26.57MW of projects in Greece in the first week of September.