The Indian state of Andhra Pradesh had invited bids for 500 MW of solar power back in August. The state-run transmission utility APTRANSCO, which is the nodal agency for the tender, has now come out with a list of bidders that will be eligible for capacity allocation across the state. Due to complicated bidding mechanism … [continued]
SunEdison is making the prediction that with the large-scale implementation of its new high-pressure fluidized bed reactor technology at its new facility in Korea that it will be able to supply source polysilicon capable of allowing 400-watt peak solar PV panel performance at a cost of $0.40 per watt sometime … [continued]
As part of a $1.5 billion Google renewable energy pledge, the company has chipped in $145 million for an 82 MW solar power plant on a former oil field.
SunEdison has announced that it has signed an agreement with Antofagasta Minerals S.A. to set up 69.5 MW solar power project at a copper mine in Chile.
It is hard to overstate the effect that access to reliable electricity can have on people’s lives in rural communities worldwide. That’s why we are so supportive of interventions like off-grid clean energy that not only put power directly in people’s hands, but do it in a time frame that … [continued]
Setting up solar power projects in remote areas of the developing world isn’t cheap; First Solar has announced financial support for such projects in India.
The state of North Carolina has approved the connection of an 80 MW solar power plant to the Duke Energy grid.
The giant Atacama Desert cradling solar panels is a beautiful image. Find the middle of Chile’s Atacama Desert and take a look — the largest solar PV plant in Latin America has come online. SunEdison has established the 100MW Amanecer solar power plant in this vast desert of Chili. The plant … [continued]
The UK will very likely be the biggest solar photovoltaic market in Europe in 2014, according to the new NPD Solarbuzz UK Deal Tracker report. The dominance will be largely fueled by big growth in ground-mounted solar PV projects this year — over 120 large-scale solar PV projects in the … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Global investment bank UBS says solar is likely to account for 10 per cent of global electricity capacity by 2020, as production costs continue to fall, and demand soars in the world’s major economies and in other markets. In the latest bullish solar analysis released by … [continued]
