Google, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (together with its affiliates, "KKR"), and Recurrent Energy announced an investment in a portfolio of solar photovoltaic (PV) facilities serving the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD). The portfolio of projects is financed with a … [Read more...]

MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company will acquire a 49% interest in the Agua Caliente solar project from NRG Energy. (picture: Desert Sunlight Solar Farm) The 290-megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) project in Yuma County, Ariz., will generate enough electricity to offset about 5.5 million … [Read more...]

ABB, the global power and automation technology group, announced today that it has agreed to invest approximately $20 million as part of a $35 million financial round, for a substantial minority stake in California-based GreenVolts, a leading provider of turnkey concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) … [Read more...]

Salt River Project and Colorado-based juwi solar Inc. have signed a 20-year power purchase agreement for 19 megawatts of solar photovoltaic energy from a facility to be built in Queen Creek.  SRP will purchase all of the solar energy produced at the Queen Creek power plant, which is expected to … [Read more...]

OUC – The Reliable One proudly announced the completion of the first solar farm in Orange County on Wednesday in a dedication ceremony that included Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and OUC Board President Maylen Dominguez and OUC Commissioner Dan Kirby. The Stanton … [Read more...]

SunEdison, a leading worldwide solar energy services provider and subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials, announced today that KGAL GmbH & Co. has recently acquired 33 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems located in Italy and Spain from SunEdison. The recently acquired projects … [Read more...]

BELECTRIC Photovoltaic India connected India's first solar power plant in Sri City (Andhra Pradesh province) with First Solar thin-film technology to the grid. The project has been realized in close cooperation with the investor Sri Power and First Solar, the leading thin-film module … [Read more...]

Canadian Solar announced that 22,000 of its high quality and high performance solar modules were used by its partner and EPC project supplier, Isolux Corsan, to build the UK's three largest photovoltaic solar power plants. Under the euro 40 million project, three new 5 MW solar power plants … [Read more...]

Canadian Solar  announced that it has supplied 636,000 solar modules for the world's largest solar complex in southern Brandenburg, Germany. Canadian Solar provided 148 MW of the system's total 166 MW to its two partners, saferay and GP JOULE. A portion of the system's core output, … [Read more...]

MECASOLAR has recently completed the supply of 6.4MW in solar trackers and 5.1MW in fixed structures for PV solar energy projects in Greece, Great Britain, Italy, Australia, Spain, and France, among other countries. In Great Britain, MECASOLAR supplied 2.9MW in fixed structures for a project … [Read more...]