Americas

The chief executive of PV manufacturer REC, Ole Enger, is to step down in December after 4.5 years as the company relocates key management from Norway to the US.

Hawaiian Electric Company has selected the US’s largest PV installer SolarCity to develop a 15MW utility-scale solar power plant on the Hawaiian island of O’ahu.

The head of the US’s solar trade body has called on the industry to unite against efforts to disrupt the country’s deployment of solar technology.

At Solar Power International 2013, SolarEdge will display its new extended line of high power single phase solar inverters with up to 11.4kWac power level.

Chint Power Systems said it had expanded its range of UL approved inverter solutions to address all market segments such as residential, commercial and utility-scale PV sectors in the US.

Turnkey Chinese solar company, ET Solar, is supplying 13MW of its 300W solar modules to Strata Solar, for two 6.5MW solar farms in North Carolina.

AVACO, a specialist manufacturer of sputtering (PVD) vacuum deposition equipment and atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment, has announced the development of a new concept buffer layer deposition for photovoltaic cells.

Hoku Materials’ never-used polysilicon plant in Idaho will go up for sale next week.

Major PV project developer and EPC firm, BELECTRIC is almost doubling its PV power plant footprint in North America with plans for plants in both California and Puerto Rico, totalling 60MW.

Renusol America will be unveiling its new ‘Renusol MS’ system at Solar Power International 2013.