Originally published on Solar Love. US-based First Solar has led the utility-scale solar league for awhile now, but the latest statistics for utility-scale solar construction (EPC contracts) put it way out in the lead. As you can see in the Wiki-Solar table below, First Solar now has built 1,147 MW of solar … [continued]
2012 has been a record-breaking year for utility-sized solar power installations. Utility-scaled solar installations this year reached 8.5 gigawatts (GW), according to a recent PV-Tech article. The preliminary data from Wiki-Solar noted that newly installed power plants exceeding 10 megawatts (MW) in size have so far reached a total installed … [continued]
Cupertino Electric has completed a 20-MW solar PV project in Huron, California for electric utility PG&E. The project was built in just 8 months and is now in commercial operation. This is “the third project that Cupertino Electric has built for PG&E under the utility’s five-year clean energy initiative.” For more … [continued]
