Installations

An Australian electricity network owner will trial the provision of solar+storage in a suburban setting to see whether 14 homes can form a mini grid, to deliver grid and savings on customer utility bills. AusNet is running the trial in the city of Melbourne that will see one street become a self-sufficient mini grid.

The German battery technology start-up boasts the storage experts behind Formula 1 team Toyota Racing’s kinetic energy recovery system (KERS). Solarwatt expects the acquisition to reduce storage system costs over the long run.

The construction and green energy company inked the solar farm deal on the sidelines of Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s visit to Iran last week.

At $2.5 billion, the new site is Wacker’s largest single investment ever. The German chemcial giant is expecting muscular growth global PV capacity to spur demand for high-grade polysilicon.

The Chinese module producer signs agreement with TBEA Xinjiang Sunoasis to supply 56.5 MW of its 305 W, 310 W and 315 W modules to the company; 25 MW supply deal also agreed with China Foma Group.

Staten Solar has selected Solar Frontier modules for more than a dozen solar PV projects on California farms. The EPC company employed its own levee-mounted racking systems for the unique plants.

Industry body Conseil Superieur de l’Energie approves increase in solar PV target to 20.2 GW by 2023, up from anticipated 10.2 GW cumulative capacity by the end of 2018. Wind target also revised upwards.

The solar-powered aircraft is back in “mission mode” after a 9-month hiatus, with more motivation within the team to “demonstrate that modern clean technologies can achieve the impossible.”

US solar provider Sunworks has opened an innovative design center, where customers can not only learn about the benefits of solar power, but can design their own personalized system, at a time when inventive mounted arrays are being touted as visual, as well as financial, assets.

The independent German based PV monitoring company installed its monitoring equipment to 367 MW of PV installations in the first quarter of 2016, compounding its position as one of the world leaders in the market.