UK to transform three landfill sites into 70 MW of solar farms
Resource management company Veolia, which dominates the county’s waste management landscape, has secured planning permission on three landfill sites to create 70 MW of solar installations.
Global solar potential is highly underestimated, study shows
PV can reach a share of 30% to 50% in the global power production by 2050, according to a study conducted by Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change.
Bulgaria: municipality of Devnya preps to host 180 MW solar plant
The project is expected to be built by local company 4B Solar in three phases by the end of 2022.
Italy adds 234 MW of new PV capacity in H1 2017
The Italian solar market has registered 16% year-on-year growth in the first six months of 2017. New additions for June reached 29.7 MW.
Germany installs 155 MW of PV in July
Demand for small-sized PV systems remained strong in Germany in July, while growth of large-scale plants was lower than in the previous months.
Prime Enerji builds two PV plants totalling 25 MW in Turkey
The projects are being developed in partnership with German EPC contractor InTEC Energy Solutions in the Turkish provinces of Denizli and Erzurum.
EU Researchers achieve breakthrough in nano-scale c-Si
A team of scientists representing the photoNvoltaics project, funded by the European Union, has been able to develop a crystalline silicon cell with an effective thickness of just 830 nano-meters.
Brazilian government cancels PPAs for 249.7 MW of solar
The contracts were scrapped through an auction launched in April to cancel projects selected in reserve energy auctions held between 2014 and 2015.
Efficient PPAs may propel solar-diesel micro-grid deployment , says study
In terms of micro-grids, key to reducing diesel consumption by renewables are efficient PPAs, finds consultancy THEnergy, noting that the complexity of these contracts is much greater than in the case of grid-connected photovoltaic systems.
Canadian Solar connects 27.3 MW PV plant in Japan
Module manufacturing heavyweight Canadian Solar today announced the start of commercial operation on a 27.3 MW PV power plant in Tottori Prefecture, Japan.
