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21/04/2021

India’s installed renewable energy (including large hydro projects) capacity stood at 141.4 GW, accounting for a share of around 37 percent in the overall power mix at the end of Q1 2021, according to consultancy Mercom India. The latest data from the Central Energy Authority (CEA) saw the share o...

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31/05/2016

In its 2016 Corporate Accountability Report ,US investor-owned electric utility American Electric Power (AEP) revealed that it intends to triple its solar and renewable energy power plant portfolio in the next two decades. The company's strategy is targeting to further reduce carbon dioxide emission...

31/05/2016

German PV and wind power plant operator Chorus Clean Energy achieved revenue of €10.1 million ($11.2 million) in the first quarter of 2016, down from €12.4 million in same period of the prior year. The company said that the turnover drop was mainly attributable to lower power production. Revenue fro...

31/05/2016

US vertically integrated solar project developer SPI Solar Inc., which is partially owned by Chinese PV company LDK Solar, has completed four distributed generation PV projects with a combined capacity of 12.8 megawatts MW in China. The company's e-commerce and investment platform Solarbao provided…

31/05/2016

Chinese solar manufacturer JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd.  announced it will supply 420 MW of its modules for PV technology demonstration project in Datong, Shanxi province, China. The company has not disclosed the value of the supply agreement. The project, which will have a total capacity of 950 MW,…

31/05/2016

Spanish solar developer Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) has secured a 25-year PPA for a 100 MW solar park from the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), the government agency overseeing India's Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM). The solar facility will be located in the India st...

31/05/2016

In May, Spain’s 4.67 GW of installed PV capacity covered 4.1% of the country’s electricity demand, according to Spanish grid operator Red Electrica de Espana. PV covered 3.3% of the country's electricity demand in April 2016 and 4.5% in May 2015. In the first 5 months of this year, PV represented 2....

30/05/2016

Italian renewable energy company Enel Green Power Spa, a subsidiary of the Enel group, has completed construction on a 160 MW solar facility in northern Chile. The Finis Terrae solar project was developed by the company’s local subsidiary Enel Green Power Chile Ltda. in the Antofagasta region. EGP i...

30/05/2016

On May 27, Chinese thin-film solar company Hanergy Thin Film and US inverter producer Advanced Energy were replaced in the PPVX by Chinese polysilicon producer Daqo and Taiwanese solar cell maker Gintech Energy. Hanergy was excluded from the index because the company's shares were not traded for a p...

30/05/2016

German system integrator Phoenix Solar announced it will build a 10.2 MW solar park in Turkey. Phoenix Solar and its local partner company Asunim Yenilenebilir Enerji Teknolojileri İnş. Müh. San. Tic. Ltd. Şti were awarded the contract to develop the project by Turkish conglomerate Akfen Renewable E...

30/05/2016

Spanish solar tracker provider Soltec announced it will supply itsSF Utility single-axis trackers for a 150 MW PV project under development by an undisclosed developer in the US. The financial details of the supply agreement were not disclosed. The company said it has redesigned the elelctronics of…

30/05/2016

France’s cumulative installed PV capacity reached 6,737 MW at the end of March 2016, according to new data from the French General Commission on Sustainable Development (CGDD). The country added 178 MW in the first quarter of this year, up from 90 MW in the previous quarter and down from 222 MW in t...

27/05/2016

Chinese solar manufacturer JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd. saw its turnover and shipments increase substantially in the first quarter of 2016. The company achieved revenue of 3.5 billion CNY ($538.1 million) in the period, up 44.45 from the same quarter of 2015. Total quarterly shipments reached 1,182.3…

27/05/2016

Chinese solar manufacturer JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. Reported a significant increase in revenue and shipments for the first quarter of 2016. Revenue for the period was 5.47 billion CNY ($847.8 million), up 98.8% from 2.74 billion CNY in the same quarter of 2015. EBIT improved year-on-year from 230...