Believed to be the largest solar project in the Caribbean, a 24MW project in Guayama, Puerto Rico, which was recently completed, had been supplied modules for the project by Yingli Green.
Thin film manufacturer Solar Frontier has announced that the 1MW Shimozuru Power Plant in the city of Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, in Japan has officially come online.
Thin-film CIS module developer Solar Frontier will be delivering 12,000 of its modules to the Aikawa Press Takane Plant Megasolar project in the Yamanashi prefecture, Japan.
Shanghai Chaori Solar Energy Science & Technology, a Chinese PV module manufacturer, has signed a cooperation agreement with Brazil-based S4 Clean Energy Projectos Esolucoes Sustentaveis Ltd. to construct up to 272MW of PV plants in Brazil.
The President of Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla has officially inaugurated a 1MW solar park in Miravalles which is said to be the country’s largest PV plant to date and the largest project of its kind in Central America.
The Chilean environmental authority Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental (SEA) has approved Solar Chile’s environmental impact statement (EIS) for its proposed 30.24MW thin-film PV plant.
Germany PV developer S.A.G. Solarstrom has sold four PV systems to an unnamed German institutional investor. The systems, which were installed in Germany this year, have a total capacity of 15.1MWp.
South African developer BioTherm Energy has announced it has closed on the financing of one wind and two solar PV renewable energy projects located throughout the country.