Projects

Arizona utility Tucson Electric Power (TEP) is planning an additional 1.1GW of renewable energy capacity by the end of 2030, which would bring its total renewables capacity to 1.5GW.

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.

Revisions to Brazil’s net metering scheme for small-scale distributed generation renewable energy systems, came into force today (1 March).

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.

Swiss developer HopSol has selected First Solar modules for a 5MW project in Namibia, south-west Africa.

Market research firm IHS remains bullish on the global solar PV market in 2016, forecasting installations to reach 69GW in 2016.

The Indian state of Odisha plans to set up solar energy projects in 198 villages as part of India’s rural electrification programme.

India’s ministry of railways has issued tender documents for 50MW of rooftop solar plants with another 100MW in the pipeline.