Projects

The government of New South Wales in Australia has approved plans to build a 50MW PV facility, called Broken Hill, which will be located around five kilometres from Broken Hill in New South Wales.

Ideematec, a German manufacturer of tracking and mounting systems, has delivered 6,000 safeTrack Vertec azimuth tracking systems for installation at two PV facilities in South Africa which have a combined capacity of 33MW.

Spanish solar developer Solarpack has commenced construction on two PV plants with a combined capacity of 25MW for Chilean mining company Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi.

Solar Frontier and Japanese quarry operator Yano Industry have connected two solar power plants in Kunitomi, Miyazaki prefecture, Japan, which have a combined capacity of 3.3MW.

Taiwanese PV manufacturer Winaico has announced the expansion of one of its solar manufacturing facilities in Taiwan.

Chinese solar mounting supplier Grace Solar has announced the completion of a 1.5MW solar power plant in Japan.

Sunpreme, a solar power producer headquartered in California, US, has completed, it claims, the largest commercial rooftop PV installation in Punjab, India.

Sempra US Gas & Power, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, has commenced construction on its utility-scale Copper Mountain Solar 3 project.

The government of Uruguay will celebrate the country’s first solar power plant at an inauguration ceremony due to be held later today.

PV developer SolarCity will add Barstow Unified School District (BUSD) in California, US, to its solar portfolio by installing 1.5MW of PV systems for the school district.