Americas

Infrastructure management company, based in South Africa, Engevix has installed a pilot PV plant in Brazil.

SunPower has developed and built three PV systems at Solano Community College in California.

In a strategic move ahead of possible new anti-dumping duties being imposed on c-Si PV manufacturers in China and Taiwan, CIGS thin-film producer, TSMC Solar has selected Centrosolar America as its exclusive distributor in North America.

The Rocky Mountain Institute has published a report which claims it could be possible, using PV coupled with storage, for portions of the USA to "defect" away from using grid networks entirely by 2030.

Natural gas firms that lost against a solar project in a competitive bidding process have accused the overseeing judge of handling the process unfairly.

SolarCity chief executive officer Lyndon Rive has described 2013 as “an amazing year” for the company in a conference call to discuss fourth quarter operating metrics and preliminary financial results.

A US$600 million, 300MW PV plant in Chile took another step toward construction last week when authorities gave approval to the Environmental Impact Declaration (EID) for the project.

Chile’s installed PV capacity has reached the 102.6MW mark with the addition of SunEdison’s near 100MW Amanecer project.

Renovalia Chile plans to build a 35MW solar power station in the Atacama region of Chile, according to documents submitted to the region’s local authorities.

Three solar tracking sites in Lancaster, Los Angeles County, California are now producing power.