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.
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.
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.
Peru’s Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) has signed a 15-year investment contract with local power provider Ergon Peru SAC for the installation of 150,000 solar panels to provide electricity to remote areas of the country.
