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]
The US development finance agency will provide as much as $250 million in financing for MEMC and its SunEdison solar energy subsidiary, along with two local companies, to develop a 60-megawatt PV facility in the Free State province town of Boshoff. The project is the result of the companies’ successful bid in South Africa’s historic Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Program. […]
SunEdison’s asset sales and service agreements raise cash and secure an income stream as it looks to weather tough market conditions and continue expanding. […]
Solar and renewable energy industry players are jockeying for position and ramping up project development plans and investment as Japan readies a landmark renewable energy feed-in tariff due to go into effect July 1. MEMC Electronic Materials’ SunEdison announced plans to invest an initial $4.6 billion to build solar power projects in the Land of the Rising Sun and is discussing potential project sites for 1-GW of solar energy capacity with local governments.
