Julia Chan

Regional utility firm Stadtwerke Heidelberg and PV project developer Conergy are collaborating to construct a 1.1MW PV array on a landfill site in Feilheck in Heidelberg, Germany.

German PV systems integrator Phoenix Solar has announced plans to build a 4.2MW solar park on a former military site in the district of Jerichower Land in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

Shares of Chinese PV companies trading in the US have soared on news that the Chinese government is set to inject an additional RMB7 billion (US$1.1 billion) into subsidies for its PV industry.

General Motors (GM) has signed an agreement with renewable energy firm KC Cottrell to construct a 3MW PV array on the rooftop of its Changwon Assembly plant in South Korea.

Sempra US Gas & Power, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, has finished building the first phase of the 150MW Copper Mountain Solar 2 PV project in Boulder City, Nevada, US.

Evergreen Valley College in San Jose, California, has become home to a 1.5MW tracking solar array.

US renewable energy firm Greenpower Capital and Wirsol Solar, an international PV developer based in Germany, have established a joint venture which focuses on financing and building solar projects in Japan which have a capacity of 10MW or more.

Kuwait has set a target to generate 15% of its electricity demand from renewable energy including solar by 2030.

UK renewable energy company Blue Energy will finance and develop a US$400 million large-scale 155MW PV plant in Ghana which, when complete, is said to represent Africa’s largest PV project.

Qatar, the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas, is planning to launch a tender for a 1,800MW PV plant in 2014, media reports reveal.