Americas

Sempra US Gas & Power, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, has commenced construction on its utility-scale Copper Mountain Solar 3 project.

The government of Uruguay will celebrate the country’s first solar power plant at an inauguration ceremony due to be held later today.

The US is emerging as an increasingly major player in the global solar market at unprecedented scale, according to a new report released today.

PV developer SolarCity will add Barstow Unified School District (BUSD) in California, US, to its solar portfolio by installing 1.5MW of PV systems for the school district.

MEMC Electronic Materials has said it plans to drop its name that has been in existence for decades and take on its subsidiary SunEdison as the corporate moniker.

Pacific Gas & Electric's "pre-Gutenberg" manual billing has been named as one of the top five biggest money wasters for California utilities.

In collaboration with the SUNY NanoCollege and U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium, flexible CIGS thin-film start-up, Magnolia Solar has claimed it has demonstrated a solar cell with a conversion efficiency of 13%. The company did not state aperture area dimensions.

Spanish PV developer Gestamp Solar has confirmed that the Tacna Solar and Panamericana Solar PV plants in Peru have become operational.

Bosch Solar Energy, the solar arm of global technology specialist The Bosch Group, has selected EPC firm RMK Solar as one of its first PowerPro partners to offer PV systems using Bosch-manufactured PV modules.

Electrical contractor Del Monte Electric has completed the installation of solar power systems in 51 schools at Mount Diablo Unified School District, in California.