SunPower has announced the launch of a remote operations control center for monitoring and controlling large-scale solar power plants. The remote operations control center (ROCC) is designed to monitor and control large-scale solar power plants that SunPower is currently operating throughout the United States (including those projects owned by its joint-yieldco company, 8point3 Energy Partners), as […]
Global solar installations will rise by to 2020 to 92 GW yearly, according to a new report from Apricum, compared to 42 GW annually in 2014. The Berlin-based cleantech consulting firm said most of the 50 GW in annual increases from 2014 until 2020 will come from China, the US, and India, with 36 GW combined. The […]
Solarcentury has teamed up with Colombian company Hybrytec to build the country’s largest solar PV roof system, atop Exito’s Barranquilla store. Solarcentury is one of the oldest solar companies in the world, and Hybrytec is a Colombian company leading the local solar energy market, with 7 years experience and over 140 projects successfully completed across the country. The two […]
Yingli Green Energy (aka Yingli Solar or simply Yingli) has announced that it will be delivering 240 MW worth of solar panels to two of Latin America’s largest hybrid solar PV and CSP plants. The announcement was made last week, and concerns two projects being developed in northern Chile, each of which will be equipped with […]
SolarReserve is bringing 20 MW of utility-scale solar power to El Salvador’s Acajutla plant, while advancing its share of the Latin American solar market. The Santa Monica, California–based company won El Salvador’s first ever utility-scale solar tender. The country’s energy and telecommunications regulator oversaw the bidding process. SolarReserve sees Latin America as a good growth market, […]
A new 30 MW solar photovoltaic power plant is currently being constructed in Mexico — in La Paz, Baja California Sur. Once completed, the plant will be Latin America’s largest photovoltaic solar power plant, providing enough electricity to power an estimated 160,000 households.
One of the leading solar energy companies in the world, Yingli Green Energy, recently announced that the company is supplying 40 MW of photovoltaic modules for a new solar power plant that will be the largest in Latin America when completed. The solar plant the PV panels are being provided for was developed by Gestamp […]