Americas

Mississippi Power and SR Meridian, III announced Thursday that they have received unanimous approval from the Mississippi Public Service Commission for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to construct and operate a 52.5MW PV project in Lauderdale County, Mississippi.

The Home Depot announced Thursday that it has selected Current, powered by GE, to build up its renewable-energy expansion.

Solar tracking company Array Technologies announced this week that it has commissioned the 102MW Lamesa Solar Facility in Lamesa, Texas.

SolarEdge will live broadcast from its monitoring platform during the solar eclipse in the US.

Newly formed German PV module manufacture SolarWorld Industries GmbH has officially started production, according to the insolvency administrator for SolarWorld AG.

California’s grid operations will be supported by the ramping of an estimated 3,000MW of energy storage, when a solar eclipse expected across the Pacific North-West of the US will cause PV generation to dip.

Solar power solutions provider Sunworks announced a new 1.4MW PV construction project for nine elementary and middle school locations in the Los Altos School District (LASD) in California.

The insolvency administrator for SolarWorld AG's shares in Solarparc GmbH, Deutsche Lithium GmbH and SolarWorld Americas said it was focusing its efforts on finding buyers for these companies.

Clean energy development and financing company Empower Energies announced Tuesday that it has completed the Patua solar power project – a 14.5MW PV project in Churchill County, Nevada.

Suniva will tell Tuesday’s hearing at the International Trade Commission that the US has handed over control of the next “meaningful” source of power generation.