pv magazine weekly news digest
Solar prepares to lift the roof in the UK, SolarEdge prepares to go public, Kaiser Permanente injects a a healthy dose of solar into its daily rounds, and fourth quarter financial reports come pouring in.
SolarCity soars into 2015 on record home solar sales
Construction activities at SolarCity’s gigawatt-sized panel manufacturing factory in Buffalo, New York, are temporarily on ice as the region shovels out from under this past week’s big snow dump.
SolarEdge files for $125 million IPO
The Israeli-headquartered power optimizer specialist filed an S-1 form with the SEC yesterday. Company’s recent growth underpinned by strong U.S. consumer base.
SMA hits 1 GW O&M landmark
The German inverter supplier has 840 MW of operational management contracts in North America alone, plans to further expand services in key markets.
Conergy UK creates rooftop division as British solar market matures
Strategy sign of wider reflection of the U.K. solar market’s diversification as it looks to maintain growth in a post-ROC landscape.
Sunrun opens new design engineering center in California
The facility will tailor-make system designs for U.S. homeowners in an effort to meet growing residential demand, the company says.
Suncrest Solar set to expand with Tenaska investment
The deal, which further underscores the potential of the U.S. residential solar market, will help Utah-based Suncrest to add seven new sales offices in California as well as 10 more throughout the United States.
Lockheed Martin taps Advanced Roofing for PV plant in Florida
The solar carport will be the largest privately held, non-utility owned solar energy array in the state.
UK: solar threat to food security overstated by minister, documents show
Freedom of information request reveals government’s own environmental department has no evidence that solar farms have a serious impact on agricultural output.
Tanzania announces One Million Solar Homes initiative
Commitments by the IFC, USAID, OPIC, Sunfunder, SNV and Off Grid Electric are expected to put Tanzania at the forefront of the U.S. Power Africa program.
