Projects

Module manufacturer and project developer, Canadian Solar, has been selected to power the first PV farm in South Carolina.

China-based Hareon Solar Technology is to build a 2MW PV power plant in Kochi City, Japan in collaboration with Japan Energy Corporation.

Southern Power and Turner Renewable Energy have purchased a 50MW PV plant from First Solar.

A key topic of debate during SNEC 2014 in Shanghai has been the concern over meeting Chinese government targets for distributed generation (DG), which are becoming seen as increasingly over ambitious.

Renewables EPC company, Abengoa has completed what is said to be the world’s largest PV plant using a single-axis tracker.

A 1MW PV power plant, currently the largest in East Africa, has been completed at the Changoi Team Farm in Kenya.

US firm First Solar is to build a 1.7MW PV-diesel hybrid system to power mining giant Rio Tinto’s Weipa bauxite mine in Queensland, Australia.

The government of Bolivia has appointed Spanish PV developer Isotron SAU, a subsidiary of energy company Isastur, to develop the first PV plant in the Bolivian region of Pando.

A 161-hectare brownfield site is being cleared in East St. Louis, Illinois, to make way for a planned US$65 million, 20MW solar farm.

The first phase of the Philippines’ first utility-scale solar power plant is now online.