Canadian Solar said in an earnings call today that to meet “expected strong growth in global demand for solar modules in the quarters ahead”, it would increase in-house wafer production from 400MW to 1GW by mid-2016, while solar cell capacity would be expanded from 2.5GW
In the course of the optimization of SMA’s production processes, all current factory-set options within the Sunny Tripower inverters (STP20000TL-30 and STP25000TL-30) will be exclusively available as retrofit kit as from January 1, 2016. The sole exception is the display which you can still purchase
At the end of October 2015, SMA discontinued some of its communication solutions such as the Sunny WebBox. Basically, the introduction of SMA Webconnect and Speedwire communication has led to a slump in demand for monitoring devices that communicate with inverters via RS485. Every new
Morocco will host the world’s largest concentrated solar power (CSP) plant at the edge of the Sahara desert, to help generate renewable electricity which will power nearly half of the country by 2020. The first phase of the project, a 160 MW power plant called
Dear clients and partners, Let us inform you, that Solarity office in Prague is going to be closed on Friday, Oct. 30th.
Initial estimates show that photovoltaic generation in the first nine months of 2015 is already 5% higher than in the entire previous year. Germany’s PV systems generated 33,193 GWh of solar electricity through the end of September – already accounting for a 5.2% increase over
Germany-based PV module manufacturer Heckert Solar said was expanding production capacity to around 300MW to improve cost competitiveness. Heckert Solar said the capacity expansion was expected to be complete by the end of the first quarter 2016, providing around 60MW of new capacity. However, the
The European Commission is expected shortly to reject a request to exclude Chinese prices from the benchmarking index used to set the price at which Chinese cells and modules must be sold in the EU. The MIP, currently set at €0.56, is the agreed minimum
It seems that the Cestas solar park’s design has been an exercise in squeezing as much energy as possible out of the smallest possible space, even if it requires using more modules orientated in a less efficient structure. What is striking when travelling through the
The National Energy Administration (NEA) set a truly ambitious target of 17.8GW in mid-March, which itself, if successful, would translate into a 70% increase year on year from 2014’s 10.6 GW; 20GW would push that figure even higher to almost 100% year on year. Indeed,
