The solar equipment manufacturer envisiions 8.4 GW of capacity in building one new solar component plant and expanding an existing panel plant, both in Georgia.,
Six private renewable energy developers have signed 20-year power-purchase agreements with South Africa's state-owned utility Eskom for 13 solar photovoltaic projects across the country.
Projects totaling 500 MW in three states that resolved alleged federal permit and stormwater rule violations were built by Swinerton and a spinoff firm, which were not settlement parties but whose enforcement status EPA declined to confirm.
Highest natural-disaster risk level is needed for publicly regulated power facilities to operate quickly after destructive event, proponents say, but clean energy builders cite major cost and impact on project growth.
Solar energy equipment maker First Solar Inc. recently announced plans to build a $1-billion photovoltaic module manufacturing plant at a to-be-determined location in the southeast U.S., and to invest another $185 million upgrading and expanding one of its existing plants in Ohio.
Firm will engineer and build the $1.2-billion, 690-MW Gemini solar array in Nevada, says Primergy Solar, its California-based developer, owner and operator announced recently.
Probe of Chinese-made components from four Asian nations will continue, but prospect of retroactive tariffs that have delayed imports and project work for months is abated for two years; "we lost track of prioritizing domestic manufacturing," said one former industry exec in a podcast
