Americas

A 161-hectare brownfield site is being cleared in East St. Louis, Illinois, to make way for a planned US$65 million, 20MW solar farm.

Module manufacturer and project developer Canadian Solar has surpassed guidance on module shipments and revenue.

North America solar developer, Recurrent Energy, has completed three PV power plants in Ontario, Canada, and with them a 101MW project portfolio for a Japanese consortium.

US-based module manufacturer Suniva, Inc. announced that its high-powered modules will power the Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Utility Hawaiian Electric is seeking proposals for large-scale energy storage systems to ease the integration of renewable energy sources, to be installed on the island of Oahu.

Utility-scale inverters by US manufacturer Solectria Renewables will be used at five PV projects in Massachusetts totalling 13MW, purchased by renewable energy asset management firm NuGen Capital Management.

JinkoSolar has inked a major PV module supply agreement with Enel Green Power (EGP) to provide 100MW to two PV power plants being built in Chile.

An interpretation of property law that could come into effect in Arizona, taxing homeowners for leased solar panels fitted to their property, is another manifestation of resistance to solar, according to an analyst from Lux Research.

Banking giant Wells Fargo has invested US$100 million of tax equity financing in nine PV projects in North Carolina.

Senior Moroccan officials will tour the US this June as they look to kick start the North African country’s ambitious US$12.4 billion solar plans.