Americas

US installer REC Solar has acquired rival business Stellar Energy to bolster its US-facing commercial solar operations.

Power engineering company Bechtel has dismissed concerns that its 358MW Soda Mountain solar project proposed for the Mojave Desert will be setback without the city of Los Angeles purchasing electricity from it.

The failed module manufacturer QSolar used fake TÜV SÜD certificates on some its products, PV Tech has learned.

The Obama Administration has announced US$4 billion of private-sector commitments to help fund innovation in clean technologies.

Tier-one PV manufacturer, JA Solar, has had its PV modules tested and pass the Class 4 Hail Test conducted by RETC in California.

Leading microinverter firm Enphase Energy has supplied over 3,200 C250 microinverters to a single 900kW commercial PV installation in Marion, Massachusetts, its largest installation to date using the commercial microinverter.

Module manufacturer QSolar has “no viable go forward business plan”, according to court-appointed directors in Canada.

SunEdison has been granted a special permit by the Hawaii Land Use Commission to build a 50MW solar plant within the Kawailoa Plantation on the North shore of Oahu.

First Solar and SunPower’s joint yieldco vehicle has commenced its initial public offering.

A subsidiary of US online retail giant Amazon will back the construction of an 80MW solar farm in Virginia to power its data centre. The Amazon Solar Farm US East will be the largest in the state.