Americas

Georgia Power, the largest subsidiary of the utility Southern Company, has launched its 2015/16 Advanced Solar Initiative (ASI) Distributed Generation (DG) programme, soliciting DG projects of varying size up to 100MW.

Authorities in Hawaii’s capital, Honolulu, have been ordered to finance a US$16 million solar system as a penalty for failing to curb air pollution from a city landfill site.

A new piece of legislation has been proposed that would help extend the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for both residential and commercial solar projects in the US.

The amount of solar capacity installed in the US is forecast to nearly double to 40GW by 2017, up from 20GW in 2014, according to a new video report from the US Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).

Latin America is forecast to install 2.2GW of PV in 2015, a 352% increase from 625MW in 2014, according to the recently released “Q1 2015 Latin American PV Playbook” report from GTM Research.

French solar developer Solairedirect has acquired 72MW of development-stage projects in Chile as well as agreeing its first deal in the US.

Solar developer Con Edison Development, a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, has acquired a portfolio of six Californian solar PV projects totalling 140MW from a joint venture between global solar developer SolarReserve and GCL Solar Energy, a division of GCL-Poly Energy Holdings.

North Carolina Governor Patrick McCrory has signed Senate Bill 372, which extends the tax credit for renewable energy projects in the state.

Solar giant JA Solar has formed a joint venture with the Chilean subsidiary of developer Soventix to develop large-scale PV projects in the Latin American country.

Tier-one module manufacturer and project developer Canadian Solar has agreed a US$250 million loan with China Minsheng Bank.