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Maryland’s Largest Solar Plant Announces December Completion
First Solar entered into a leasing agreement with the state of Maryland in order to construct the state’s largest solar power plant. Located on 160 acres near the Maryland Correctional Institution in Hagerstown, the 20MW project will include over 300,000 solar panels. Maryland has an aggressive renewable portfolio standard (RPS) that requires the state to generate [...]
Serbia to Have World’s Largest Solar Park
It’s a fact that Europe is among the leading continents to involve itself so deeply in renewable energy. With Germany and the United Kingdom making strides in wind and solar power, it’s now the turn of Serbia to do the same. The landlocked country has just signed a memorandum to construct what is billed to [...]
Toys “R” Us Opens Largest Solar Array in U.S
Some kids have to wait around until Christmas or their birthday to get their new favorite toy. But on August 11, the wait was over for Toys“R”Us. The company got a shiny new photovoltaic rooftop at its Flanders, N.J., warehouse. And at 5.38 megawatts, the solar array is among the largest currently operating in the [...]
Kyocera Inks $485M Deal to Supply Solar Panels to Thailands Largest Projects
Japan’s Kyocera Solar, a subsidiary of Kyocera Corporation (NYSE:KYO), recently announced an agreement to supply over one million solar modules for Thailand’s largest solar project to date. Thailand, a country continually seeking solutions to ongoing energy problems, will be constructing 34 6MW solar farms (with Kyocera’s modules) invarious locations along the northeastern sections of the country. Totaling 204MW of [...]
Abound Solar to Build Largest Thin Film Solar Plant in Indiana
A next-generation cadmium telluride, thin-film photovoltaic solarmodule plant will be built in the State of Indiana, it was announcedearlier this week. Abound Solar, which specializes in solar modules that reduce the cost of solar power generation, has leased a 781,750 squarefoot facility in Tipton where it will be establishing the plant. Abound Solar was able [...]
IMO Unveils South Carolina’s Largest Solar Tracker
Germany-based IMO has unveiled the biggest solar tracker of South Carolina that has afootprint larger than most first homes. With an area of 1614sqf, themetallic square turns to face the sun’s brightest spot to capture moreenergy. The futuristic-looking 53-foot-tall structure has a performancerating of 22.5KW. The tracker will be used to power IMO’s manufacturing operating [...]
Nations’s Largest PV Plant Now in Nevada
The largest photovoltaic (PV) power plant in the United States was completed last week, as Arizona-based First Solar finished building the Copper Mountain Solar Facility in Boulder City, Nevada, 40 miles east of Las Vegas. The plant was constructed on behalf of Sempra Generation — a SanDiego, California power provider to wholesale electricity markets — [...]
15 Largest PV Module Producers in 2013
As some of you might know, GTM Research recently published its third report on the global PV supply chain, PV Technology, Production and Cost Outlook: 2010-2015. As with any report of this ilk, competitive analysis features quiteprominently in its coverage, and a quite natural question to ask is howmodule producers across the landscape are positioned [...]
Czech Republic’s largest open-area plant goes online
With 17,500 modules, SOLARWATT AG has built its largest open-area plantin the Czech Republic to date in the South Bohemian town of Frymburk. The solar power plant with a total output of 4.2 MWp has been supplying the E.ON Czech Republic grid with solar energy since the middle ofNovember. The monocrystalline modules were installed without [...]