Construction of a 28 megawatt (MW) utility-scale solar power plant has been completed by Kyocera TCL Solar LLC in the town of Taiwa, Kurokawa District, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The solar power plant started operations in late June 2018.
Japanese multinational manufacturer Kyocera has announced it has begun construction on the world’s largest floating solar PV power plant. The competition for largest floating solar PV plant has been heating up over the last few years, with one company after another all vying for contention. Kyocera is generally held to … [continued]
Originally published on the ECOreport Though many believe the lifetime of a solar panel is twenty-five years, a number of older models have exceeded this. When Kyocera tested a 30-year-old module last year, it discovered it was still operating at 90.4% of capacity. There are 37-year-old Arco Solar (now SolarWorld USA) … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. Kyocera wants to expand its sales in the United States, and sees opportunities in the residential solar and energy storage markets. Sales for the company fell recently in Japan, forcing the company to look at expanding into the United States. “There is growing need for energy … [continued]
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Kyocera Corporation and Century Tokyo Leasing Corporation announced that their joint venture, Kyocera TCL Solar, has completed construction of two floating solar power plants in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. The 1.7 MW floating solar plant at Nishihira Pond and the 1.2 MW plant at Higashihira Pond were built using Kyocera modules fixed to specially developed … [continued]
Shanghai headquartered, Chinese PV developer Solar Power Inc recently announced a partnership with startup Aqua Clean Energy to develop floating PV projects across the US and Mexico. As per the press release, a combined capacity of 50 MW floating PV projects will be built, spread across the states of California, Arizona, Texas, and New … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. Japanese company Kyocera is targeting the German market for home solar storage systems due to a change in that country’s pricing for home-generated solar power. Previously, the feed-in tariff, which determines how much a homeowner will be paid for the power she or he contributes … [continued]
It’s barely been a month since we reported on the government of Kawajima-machi’s (Saitama Prefecture, Japan) plans to develop a 7.5 MW solar power plant on the surface of Umenokifurukori reservoir. And now Kyocera has announced a 13.4 MW floating solar power plant on the Yamakura Dam reservoir in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The company did … [continued]
Solar industry leaders share their thoughts on the current Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition Solar Scorecard, which ranks transparency on toxins use.
