Installations

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. has announced it will supply 9.43 megawatts (MW) of solar panels and technical support for the second phase of a 44 MW solar power plant (38MW AC output) in Thailand.

Johnson Controls has announced it has been selected to design and install 73 photovoltaics (PV) arrays at schools throughout the state of Utah, in the U.S.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has advanced its plans to build a five megawatt (MW) photovoltaics (PV) installation following initial environmental approval from the U.S. Board of Water and Power Commissioners.

The 250 megawatt (MW) Genesis Solar Project has received approval from the Secretary of the Interior, making it the seventh large-scale solar thermal project to be approved on U.S. public lands in the last few months.

China-based Suntech and Australian company Infigen have submitted AUD$792 million worth of proposals to build solar projects across Australia amounting to 195 megawatts (MWs).

Germany-based Solon has announced the inauguration of its first French ground-mounted photovoltaics (PV) power plants worth €15 million.

Over one hundred distressed Czech solar investors and businessmen gathered in front of the Czech Parliament in Prague today in order to protest against the imposition of new solar tax to be charged on income generated by solar plants.

Scheuten Solar has announced that a total of 3.4 megawatts of photovoltaics (PV) is to be installed across four projects in Gualdo Tadino, Umbria, Italy.

Eco Sustainable Solutions, based in Dorset, the UK, has said it plans to build the country’s first solar farm.

Plans have been drawn up to build Russia’s first solar power station by the Black sea, according to the Moscow News.