Flow batteries: more cost effective for residential and utility-scale installations?
CEO interview: Bill Watkins, CEO of Imergy Power Systems, speaks exclusively with pv magazine about the company’s vanadium-based flow battery energy storage products and why they make sense for PV developers. Imergy is headquartered in Fremont, California, and has operations in Gurgaon, India.
WRB secures PPA for 20 MW PV project in Jamaica
The company will supply solar power at US$0.18 per kW hour to the grid, with completion expected early 2015.
Phoenix Solar to build 32 MW solar plant in North Carolina
The solar company will construct, engineer and procure the entire project, located in the state’s Bladen County, for Duke Energy.
TMEIC to make inverters in Texas
Despite a booming market in Japan, the world’s fourth-largest inverter maker has expanded to the United States, and IHS says that it expects more inverter companies to follow suit.
Manz secures EUR 20 million loan for CIGS research
The credit line is part of an initiative to support midcap companies launched by the European Commission and the European Investment Bank, which describes Manz as “a technology leader well on a par with international competitors.”
Abengoa launches EUR 500 million green bond offering
The Spanish group will use the proceeds to finance existing and future eligible green energy projects.
EU PVSEC: imec calls for greater focus on PV systems
Belgian PV and battery research group imec called for PV researchers to renew their focus on optimizing PV systems as the first full day of the EU PVSEC conference and trade show drew to a close on Tuesday in Amsterdam.
Meyer Burger to supply Q-Cells with PERC PV cell upgrade equipment
Meyer Burger will ship the systems in late 2014 and the first half of 2015 to Hanwha Q-Cells facilities in Germany and Malaysia, to enable increased cell efficiencies.
SolarCity breaks ground on GigaFactory for solar PV in New York state
The 110,000 square meter plant in Buffalo will produce PV cells and modules based on Silevo’s high-efficiency technology, as the largest solar manufacturing facility in the Western Hemisphere.
US adds 1.5 GW utility-scale PV capacity in first 8 months of 2014
Data from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shows 68 MW of utility-scale solar power added in August as world leaders meet in New York for UN Climate Summit.
