Manufacturing

SunPower is set to build a five megawatt (MW) solar farm in Hawaii, after receiving the go ahead from the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission to sell the generated electricity to the Hawaiian Electric Company.

Germany-based Centrosolar Group AG posted a positive third quarter (Q3) EBIT, but falling revenues. Overall, the company has revised its full year guidance downwards.

Ideal Power Converters (IPC) has been awarded USD$2.5 million by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to develop lighter and cheaper solar inverters.

PVNavigator, LLC is set to install a 3.1 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic system at a landfill in New Jersey. In related news, Tioga Energy and Chevron Energy Solutions have said they will build a 1.15 MW system atop a capped Californian landfill.

Platina Partners LLP has secured €37 million in debt financing from the German Commerzbank for its Archangel photovoltaic park.

Wacker Chemie AG has begun production at its new polysilicon production facilities in Nünchritz, Germany three months earlier than scheduled.

SunEdison has sold off 33 megawatts (MW) from its photovoltaic portfolio in Italy and Spain to KGAL GmbH & Co. The news follows KGAL’s earlier acquisition of 20 MW from SunEdison in the second quarter of 2011.

JinkoSolar’s Haining photovoltaic module manufacturing facility has resumed operations. The news follows yesterday’s announcement that it had completed phase one of environmental safety upgrade.

According to new data released, China’s non-residential photovoltaic pipeline currently stands at 14 gigawatts (GW). It is expected that the market will exceed 1.6 GW this year.

During a visit to the Taiwan Power Company’s new 4.6 megawatt photovoltaic park – the largest in the country – pv magazine learned that the utility has plans to install a further 7.5 MW over the next three years.