The U.S. Department of Commerce decision came as no surprise, there was good news in battery storage and equipment manufacture and SunEdison Chile wins the pv mag prize for best-named CEO.
Big Australian utilities such as Origin Energy and AGL Energy are maintaining their attack on subsidies for rooftop solar, joining forces with industry lobby groups to call for their removal just as they prepare to roll out solar leasing schemes of their own.
Prices for solar power storage systems have fallen by 25% since spring. The German solar industry expects continued growth in demand for storage systems.
“Over the next five years, we expect to see a disruptive shift in the energy market, with solar power, energy storage, smart devices, energy management technologies and electric vehicles being combined,” says SunPower CEO Tom Werner.
At 61 MW, Gauss Energía’s Aura Solar II in Honduras will be much larger than any solar project built to date in the region.
Southern Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, will develop a 131 MW utility scale PV power plant in Georgia. The electricity from the plant will be sold to three Georgia electric corporations under a 25-year PPA.
Including the new City2 installation, GreenGo Energy has now completed PV systems for nine Danica Pension shopping centers — a total of more than 6 MW.
The $87 million deal includes five solar PV farms in southern France with a total capacity of 50.8 MW and expands the German group’s footprint in the French solar market from 90 MW to more than 140 MW.
The leading North American O&M services provider added a total of 27 renewable energy projects in Quebec and Ontario in 2014.
A year-end rush in China is driving the Asia-Pacific solar PV market to record levels in the final quarter of 2014, according to Solarbuzz, which predicts that PV demand in the region will continue strong growth in coming years despite challenges in some countries.
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