‘Solar Module Super League’ member First Solar has aimed to double down on manufacturing with the sale of its O&M division, having kickstarted discussions around the future of its EPC business.
ACWA Power has once again turned to Chinese EPC Shanghai Electric to be the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the fifth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Solar Park in Dubai.
Solar EPCs have detailed how social distancing measures and other work practices have been put into place to ensure developments can continue amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Solar engineering, procurement and construction contractors have a central role in ensuring the long-term performance and profitability of PV power plants. Ben Willis speaks to Adele Ara and Ralph Gottschalg of SolarPower Europe’s O&M and Asset Management Task Force, which is drawing up the industry’s first best practice guidelines for EPC companies
UK-based solar developer Solarcentury posted record profits in excess of £20 million in its last financial year, helping the company plot a course to complete an international pipeline that now amounts to 6GW.
Firm behind major solar projects in Europe, the US and others tells PV Tech it fears work restrictions at regulatory bodies could further worsen already ‘unspeakable’ delays.
In a guest blog for PV Tech, Austin Ditz, senior project manager for project operations; and Eugene Rhee, director of performance engineering, both of Sol Systems, run through five of the most common technical problems with solar deployment that can be avoided through integrated delivery and engineering processes.
‘Market has evaporated’, says CEO of construction giant Downer after announcing group behind some of the country’s largest PV projects will no longer take on new solar contracts.
Managing director recounts EPC's journey to the heart of Malaysia's current large-scale solar boom and lays out expansion plans in Vietnam and the Philippines.
