Atlantic Wind & Solar, Inc. has announced its entrance into the South Asia region and marks a new milestone in its project pipeline size, now surpassing 1 GW of renewable energy projects. An increase of almost 100% over the previous year. In Thailand Atlantic is currently structuring an agreement in regards to 230 MW of solar projects. In addition the Company is evaluating 90 MW of wind projects. In India Atlantic is structuring agreements around 210 MW of solar projects.- SkyPower has been awarded 200 MW in the Telangana, India solar competitive tender process. This 200 MW award from Telangana is in addition to the 150 MW of projects awarded to SkyPower in the State of Madhya Pradesh in July, for a total of 350 MW. Once built, the projects from both states are anticipated to be in excess of 400 MW of solar nameplate capacity.
- Supporting the Government of Queensland’s commitment to generate 50 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030, local utility Ergon Energy has contracted with SunPower to offer high efficiency PV solar power systems with energy storage technology from Sunverge Energy to 33 Queensland homes. This is Ergon Energy’s first residential solar and storage project to be piloted in a limited release commercial offer.
- Heliatek, the Dresden-based German company that produces ultra-light, flexible and less than 1 mm thick Photovoltaic solar films, was awarded today as one of the World Economic Forum’s “technology pioneers”, a selection of the world’s most innovative companies. Heliatek is a spin-off from the Technical University of Dresden and the University of Ulm. The company is a leader in the field of Organic Electronics Energy holding the world record efficiency of 12%. It started commercialization of its solar films in July 2014.
