pv magazine: Week in review
Energy storage garnered the spotlight at SPI in Las Vegas while in the U.S., renewables continued to account for new capacity. In the Middle East, Saudis are looking increasingly at solar as the key to their future while Israel is testing its local industry with ever lower FITs. And SunEdison continued its global project hot streak. Without further ado, here is pv magazine’s week in review.
US DOE provides $15 million for solar and energy storage projects
A week after Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz announced US$53 million in awards for R&D at the Solar Power International trade show, the DOE is opening another funding opportunity focused on integrating higher penetrations of solar.
Greek PV market remains idle, defined by paradox
While government cuts slashed the internal rate of return for Greek PV plants, they still remain significantly higher than in other European countries and offer foreign investors a potentially attractive investment as Greece’s economy slowly recovers.
Conergy connects RWE's first UK solar farm
Conergy has erected and connected a 37 MW PV installation near British Prime Minister David Cameron’s parliamentary constituency of West Oxforshire for a limited 24-year period.
JinkoSolar to supply 19 MW of solar modules for PV project in Chile
JinkoSolar has signed more than 160 MW of contracts in Chile this year, making it one of the leading suppliers in the country.
Kyocera sees sales, profit rise in first half of fiscal year
An absence of revenue from large-scale solar projects for the public and commercial sectors resulted in declining sales and profit for the Japanes congolomerate’s Applied Ceramic Products division. Japan remains the group’s main market.
Inside the Enphase storage play
Last week microinverter supplier Enphase Energy unveiled its AC storage product at the SPI trade show in Las Vegas. The announcement attracted considerable hype and pv magazine spoke to Ameet Konkar, Enphase’s senior director of strategic initiatives about the move.
115 MW of utility-scale solar plants planned for western New South Wales
French renewable energy developer Neoen is planning a series of large-scale solar PV plants around key towns in western New South Wales, Australia, that would amount to a total 115 MW and would be one of the biggest commercial solar projects to date.
SunEdison wins 150 MW of PV projects in Karnataka, India
The U.S. solar company is expanding its footprint in India, where it has made a successful bid for 150 MW of projects in the state of Karnataka. The news follows SunEdison’s recently announced plans to develop 5 GW of solar in Rajasthan.
Alevo sets up gigfab in US, expands storage operations in China
The Swiss energy storage startup is setting up a new gigawatt-scale battery production facility in a former cigarette factory in North Carolina and has signed a deal with China-ZK to sell its products and technology in China.
