Kyocera, Gaia Power, Kyudenko Corporation and Tokyo Century announced Tuesday that Kanoya Osaki Solar Hills — a PV company jointly established by the four companies — has started construction on a 92M PV project in Japan.
Emerging market investor Sun Group has entered a joint venture partnership with Japanese financial services group Orix, to develop commercial and industrial (C&I) solar projects in India.
This week's Movers & Shakers segment features executive shuffles in energy storage companies and an O&M firm, while examining a new merger between Spain's Gamesa and Siemens Wind Power. Spain's Renewable Energy Association elects a new president for the next four years, and Jon Wellinghoff exits SolarCity amid the US$2 billion Tesla acquisition.
Pacifico Energy has started construction on what will be the largest solar PV project in Japan, standing at 257.7MW on land that was previously destined to become a golf course.
Japan may remove feed-in tariff (FiT) support for a significant number of clean energy projects certified before July last year, because they missed a deadline to secure grid access, according to provisional estimates from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).
SB Energy, a subsidiary of Japanese firm Softbank has partnered with Invenergy Japan to develop, finance and construct two large-scale PV projects in Japan.
German alternative asset management firm Aquila Capital has completed a 38.4MW PV project in Japan and sold it to a local institutional investor for an undisclosed amount.
Global clean energy investment in the first quarter of 2017 was down 17% compared to Q1 2016, as market leaders China and the US scaled back support for wind and solar farms.
China-based independent PV power producer GCL New Energy (GCLNE) ended 2016 with 87 grid-connected solar power plants with a total capacity of 3,156MW.
