Americas

Thin-film PV manufacturer First Solar is selling its unused manufacturing plant in Mesa, Arizona, built at a cost of around US$300 million, for over US$100 million.

Electricity engineer, and inverter manufacturer Ingeteam has supplied 1MW of its ‘Ingecon Sun PowerStation’ solution to a 1.2MW PV project.

Indianapolis International Airport is to house what is said to be the largest solar farm at any US airport.

Engineering firm Black & Veatch and renewable energy installer Brightergy have signed a US$100 million solar development deal.

Canadian Solar Solutions, subsidiary of module manufacturer Canadian Solar has completed and sold two solar plants to TransCanada.

A report by California’s utility commission that identified a growing financial burden for non-solar consumers in the state was biased from the outset, a solar power advocacy group has claimed.

First Solar has acquired K Road Power’s planned 250MW ‘Moapa Solar Project’ in Nevada, US, the latest development in a recent flurry of activity by the thin-film manufacturer and project developer to replenish its PV project pipeline.

US PV company SunPower is to build Project Salvador, an unsubsidised 70MWp PV power plant in the Atacama Desert region of Chile.

A Chilean renewable energy research institute report revealed that Chile has reached 127MW in capacity of solar projects under development.

The Silver State South project has been issued an environmental statement released from the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to downsize by 100MW due to environmental concerns.