Abdul Latif Jameel completes FRV acquisition
Dubai and Saudi Arabia-based Abdul Latif Jameel Energy has acquired Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV), including its global 3.8 GW pipeline of PV projects. The two companies had previously collaborated on a JV to develop solar projects in the MENAT region.
P2P solar startup Yeloha raises $3.5 million
Boston-based P2P solar startup Yeloha has launched, simultaneously announcing the closure of Series A financing of $3.5 million. Yeloha hopes to take P2P solar into the residential PV space.
President Obama unveils 75,000 solar job initiative
Over the Easter break U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a plan to train 75,000 solar workers by 2020. The Solar Ready Vets program was launched at 10 military bases on Friday.
Multicrystalline PERC to deliver 25% efficiencies
Leading solar researcher Professor Martin Green says that the solar industry has entered a new phase of manufacturing, in which the focus is firmly on efficiency gains. The University of New South Wales (UNSW) researcher believes that PERC technology is leading the way in terms of wide scale adoption, and that conversion efficiencies of 25% can be expected with multicrystalline PERC cells.
NEXTracker completes 69.5 MW Chile installation for SunEdison
Tracker specialists finalize commissioning for the Javiera Solar project in Chile using state-of-the-art single axis PV trackers to take advantage of the region’s excellent solar insolation.
Vivint Solar to partner on Obama solar jobs initiative
The residential solar installer will act as recruiting partner on the Solar Ready Vets program, which aims to train 75,000 former U.S. military personnel in the solar industry by 2020.
Solar for Gaza
A United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) initiative is helping to bring solar power to electricity starved schools, hospitals and water facilities in Palestine’s Gaza Strip.
Final module installed at Nevada's 250 MW Copper Mountain solar plant
Cupertino Electric fits last of more than one million solar modules at the Nevada PV plant, which has been developed by Sempra U.S. Gas & Power and Consolidated Edison Development.
Germany, Japan partner on PV grid integration, power-to-gas tech
The collaboration between Japan’s Gifu University and Germany’s ZSW is expected to create better conditions for the “efficient transfer of research results into the marketplace.”
UK: No CfD-backed large-scale solar for next fiscal year
The two solar PV projects that secured a strike price of 50 pounds per MWh under the first Contracts for Difference tender for 2015/16 will not go ahead, administrators have revealed.
