Energy management company Schneider Electric has secured over 100MW worth of projects in India with its new Conext Core XC Inverter in the three months since its launch.
EPC specialist Enerparc has finished building and connected a 52.7MW solar park in Brandenburg, Germany. The construction took just three months to complete.
Sandia National Laboratories, the Electric Power Research Institute and European Distributed Energies Research Laboratories are organising a workshop looking at the experience of utilities in integrating high levels of electricity from PV on to the grid.
Poland looks set to ramp up its support for large solar plants through a new feed-in tariff and a green certificates programme in a bid to meet European Union 2020 renewables targets.
The French Energy Regulation Commission (CRE) has fixed its feed-in tariff (FiT) to €0.035 (US$0.045) and €0.075 (US$0.097) for the fourth quarter of 2012, having fallen from €0.045 (US$0.058) and €0.095 (US$0.123).
Phoenix Solar has amended its revenue expectations for its 2012 financial year with revenue expected to drop to between €150 and €170 million (US$194 to US$200 million) for the year.
The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced that solar installations under the country’s feed-in tariff (FiT) have reached 1.3GW across the UK, according to Solar Power Portal.
Modules by China-based Talesun have received the VDE accreditation from TÜV Rheinland. The IEC61701 and IEC62716 certificates were awarded for both salt mist corrosion and PID (potential induced degradation) tests to measure the degradation in performance at 85°C.
