Schneider Electric connected over 300 MW of solar power in the UK in March, the company has just announced. The 300 MW of solar is distributed over 20 different sites, and 7 different companies assisted in their construction. Schneider’s technology — in the form of monitoring cabinets, integrated inverters, transformers, switchgears, … [continued]
It’s Earth Day, which many green bloggers hate, since spending just 1 day thinking about how to preserve human livability on this small planet simply doesn’t cut it. On the flip side, it is an opportunity to make more people aware of the benefits of solar energy, electric vehicles, bicycling, and … [continued]
SolarCity now has access to a fund that will allow for the financing of more than $1 billion in new commercial-scale solar energy systems (including battery storage systems), according to a press release out from the company today. This fund — which includes a substantial input from Credit Suisse — … [continued]
EDF Energies Nouvelles and Marubeni have decided to extend their partnership in North America by working together on one of the largest merchant solar power project in the world set to be developed in Chile. The two companies have announced that they will work on the Laberinto PV power plant in Chile, … [continued]
Scatec Solar is expected to become one of the largest solar power project developers in South Africa after the company won 3 solar photovoltaic power projects in the fourth round of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme. A total of 1,121 MW of large-scale renewable energy capacity was … [continued]
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The Florida solar market will spin like a top on the heels of a deal indirectly linking the state’s FPL utility with global solar cell innovator Hanwha.
Continuing a trend that any regular readers of CleanTechnica have seen very clearly, renewable energy sources dominated new electricity generation capacity additions in the United States in February 2015. It was actually a quite weak month for utility-scale installations of any sort, which left my estimate of rooftop solar power … [continued]
Risen Energy, a China-based solar PV modules manufacturer has landed a major deal with the local governments in Inner Mongolia. Risen Energy will set up 1 GW of solar power capacity and supply 200 MW of solar PV modules under agreements signed with Wuhai City and the Haibowan district, in … [continued]
