PV tracker developer NEXTracker has completed tracker commissioning for SunEdison’s solar PV plants at Pacifico and Choluteca in Honduras with a combined 82MW capacity.
Equipment specialist GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) said it was assessing fire damage to the former Apple sapphire making equipment housed in the Arizona facility that caught fire last week due to a potentially faulty PV rooftop array.
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has approved the landmark Aurora Distributed Solar Project, which was selected over a number of gas proposals in a landmark ruling in 2014.
Renewable energy development company SunEdison has signed off on deals with five municipal groups on Long Island, New York, to build seven solar installations for a total of 14MW.
Firefighters responded to an emergency at one of Apple’s facilities in Mesa, Arizona on Tuesday afternoon after a blaze broke out in an area of solar panels fitted to the roof of the building.
French concentrator PV (CPV) specialist Soitec has revealed plans to sell its solar business to ConcenSolar, a company linked with Soitec’s CPV rival Suncore.
Chinese manufacturer BYD Company is to build a 400MW PV module assembly plant in Brazil at a cost of around US$50 million, adding to its planned electric bus manufacturing facility in the state of São Paulo.
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.
