Installations

A rush of projects to make up for grid resources lost with the Aliso Canyon gas leak boosted energy storage deployments to a record level in Q4.

The troubled yieldco has managed to raise additional capital for four solar projects in Canada, as we wait on word of its settlement with SunEdison and potential sale to Brookfield.

The German firm signs framework agreement with DNE Solar for the delivery of 300 MW of string inverters to be installed across South Korea.

The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission has proposed to lower the price of solar Renewable Energy Certificates in wake of plunging PV costs.

PV Expo Tokyo, the leading solar power show for the world’s third-largest PV market, concluded last week after three full-on days. pv magazine reports on five key takeaways from this year’s show.

The South Asian nation’s government has approved the construction of a floating PV array on a 202-hectare reservoir in the Mahaweli Economic Zone.

Saft has provided a 2 MW lithium-ion battery for a Fortum power plant in Järvenpää, Finland. Fortum will receive a 30% subsidy from Finland’s government towards the €1.6 m cost of the project.

The company’s solar installations planned for 15 fulfillment centers this year will be followed by another 35 by 2020

French floating PV specialists Ciel & Terre have installed a 220 kW PV installation at a hydroelectric dam on Portugal’s Rabagão River. Though a comparatively small installation, this represents the first time the two technologies have been used in tandem at utility scale.

The Zero Energy Home shaped discussions at the PV Expo in Tokyo, as Japan lays out its plans to alter its energy landscape, and solar – as ever – finds a way to fit right in.