Solarcentury Africa, the joint venture formed by PV company Solarcentury and Johannesburg-based renewable energy developer Momentous Energy has won a contract to install a rooftop power plant at Waterfall Mall, Rustenburg, South Africa.
The new US$1.2 billion San Francisco 49ers stadium in Santa Clara, which is currently under construction, is set to feature a 400kW solar array.
Conergy has started to build a 210kW solar plant in the desert area of Ben Guardane in Medenine, in Tunisia after it was awarded the contract from Japanese general contractor Takaoka Engineering Co.
Italy-based 9REN Group has installed and connected a 600kW rooftop PV system in Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
Scheduled to complete in February, this 350kW rooftop solar project represents Inspira Martifer Solar’s first venture into the Indian rooftop PV market.
In mid-December, the Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan welcomed its first operational megawatt-scale PV power plant which has started to sell its power.
IBC Solar Yat Ve Tic has completed a 200kWp PV system, which it believes is the first grid-connected PV power plant in Turkey.
A 1MW rooftop PV array is currently under construction atop the Keppel Seghers Ulu Pandan NEWater Plant (UPNP), a wastewater recycling plant in Singapore.
Said to be the largest PV rooftop installation to date, the 571kW PV array was officially inaugurated on June 5 and is located atop the headquarters of Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines.
Conergy has completed the installation of its second PV system for BIG Shopping Centre in Beit Shemesh, Israel. The system, which generates a total capacity of 630kW, is built on the rooftop of the shopping centre which covers an area of 18,000 square metres.
