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).
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.