Projects

Tyre manufacturer Continental will install a 6.1MW rooftop PV system at its factory in Hefei, China.

Allianz Capital Partners’ Renewable Energy Fund has acquired two ground mount solar parks in Germany.

Jasper, at 96MWp the largest PV power plant in South Africa, has been completed.

US energy giant Dominion has added another 50MW to its solar portfolio with the purchase of its first project in Utah.

A partnership between Chinese PV technology company Clenergy and Xiamen National Hi-Tech Entrepreneurship Centre to develop 150MW of commercial rooftop projects, has completed its first megawatt-scale project.

First Solar and Belectric have started construction of one of the UK’s largest solar farms, a 46MW project in Oxfordshire that will bring large-scale PV capacity deployed by the pair in the UK up to 80MW when completed.

Canadian Solar has revealed that it has also been a major winner in the recent reverse auction in Brazil for PV, securing 114MW of projects with local PV developer, Solatio in the state in Minas Gerais.

Tier-one Chinese module manufacturer, Trina Solar, has supplied 7.8MW of its 31,200 Honey modules for ten rooftop projects in Thailand.

Plans for a 300MW PV park near Bordeaux, have been unveiled.

Spanish developer Abengoa has vowed to continue with the Palen concentrating solar power (CSP) project despite the withdrawal of its planning application in September.