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Newsletter – August 2, 2018

FLP starts construction of four new PV plants with a combined capacity of 300 MW

The DeSoto Solar Energy Center, owned by Florida Power & Light
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01.08.2018: US utility Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) announced the start of construction of its four newest solar power plants. The four new plants are expected to be operational by early 2019, each of the facility will have a capacity of 74.5 MW for a total of nearly 300 MW.
According to FPL, the Interstate Solar Energy Center, St. Lucie County, will join three others along the Treasure Coast that began serving FPL customers earlier this year: the FPL Loggerhead Solar Energy Center (St. Lucie County); FPL Indian River Solar Energy Center (Indian River County); and FPL Blue Cypress Solar Energy Center (Indian River County).
FPL Miami-Dade Solar Energy Center, Miami-Dade County: FPL plans to add more than 1 million solar panels across Miami-Dade in the coming years, starting with the FPL Miami-Dade Solar Energy Center located off Krome Avenue in southwest Miami-Dade County.
The FPL Pioneer Trail Solar Energy Center is located at Volusia County, known for its Daytona International Speedway (where FPL operates one of the largest solar installations at any sporting venue in the U.S.).
The FPL Sunshine Gateway Solar Energy Center, Columbia County, is located near the intersection of Interstates 10 and 75 near Florida's northern border. Once completed, the solar energy center will be visible from Interstate 75 southbound and Interstate 10 westbound.
FPL projects that solar will outpace coal and oil combined as a percentage of the company's energy mix by the year 2020. FPL is aiming to have approximately 10 million solar panels in operation by 2022 and will be more than halfway to its goal once these four newest plants are completed.
FPL is a subsidiary of Juno Beach, Florida-based Nextera Energy, Inc. and has 14 major solar power plants and more than 200 universal solar installations, totaling more than 935 MW of solar generation in operation.
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Soltec supplies bifacial solar trackers to a 17 MW PV project in Israel

01.08.2018: Soltec, manufacturer and supplier of horizontal single-axis solar trackers and related services in large ground-mount PV projects, supplies complete tracker equipment to two solar PV power plants in Israel. One of them is in the Bnei Shimon regional council while the second one is being constructed in the Merhavim regional council. The project counts on a total power capacity of 17 MW, 2 MW of them bifacial. El-Mor Renewable Energies serves as a full EPC contractor for large-scale PV solar plants. El-Mor procured 534 units of the SF7 single-axis tracker and 64 units of the SF7 bifacial.
Soltec has supplied and installed more than 400 MW to PV plants in desert areas of Chile, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Spain, and Turkey.
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Duke Energy Florida to build 74.9 MW PV plant in Columbia County

01.08.2018: US utility Duke Energy Florida, part of Duke Energy Corp, North Carolina, announced the location of its new solar power plant. The 74.9 MW »Columbia Solar Power Plant« will be built in Fort White (Columbia County) Florida. The company expects to break ground on the project next year, with full operation in March 2020. The solar power plant will be owned, operated and maintained by Duke Energy Florida and developed by Core Solar, which has constructed other solar projects in Florida.
Separately, construction is underway at Duke Energy's previously announced Hamilton Solar Power Plant in Jasper, Florida, which is also 74.9 MW in size. The company broke ground in early July. All of the electricity created from the project will be fed onto Duke Energy Florida's electric grid. The project is expected to be finished later this year and was originally developed by Tradewind Energy Inc.
Hamilton and Columbia are the first projects the company has announced as part of Duke Energy Florida's commitment to construct or acquire 700 MW of solar generation between now and 2022.
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Enphase Energy improved loss in Q2 2018 year-over-year

01.08.2018: US solar microinverter producer Enphase Energy Inc. achieved second quarter revenue of $75.9 million, an increase of 8 percent sequentially from $70.0 million, and an increase of 2 percent year-over-year. The company shipped 203 MW (675,000 microinverters). Net loss was $3.7 million compared to net loss of $12.1 million in the second quarter of 2017.
In the reporting quarter, Enphase announced a definitive agreement to acquire Sunpower's microinverter business for $25 million in cash and 7.5 million shares of Enphase common stock. Enphase will become the exclusive microinverter supplier for Sunpower's residential business in the US. Furthermore, the company started shipping its IQ 7X microinverters to solar distributors in the US and announced the introduction of IQ 7 in Europe, in Australia and New Zealand.
For the third quarter of 2018, Enphase estimates revenue to be within a range of $76 million to $82 million.
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Intevac achieved loss in H1 2018

01.08.2018: US-based equipment supplier Intevac Inc. achieved net loss in the second quarter 2018 of $167,000 compared to net income of $1.1 million in the second quarter of 2017. Revenues were $26.1 million (Q2 2017: $31 million).
Regarding the first six months 2018, the net loss was $5.3 million compared to net income of $2.9 million for the first six months of 2017. Revenues were $44.1 million (H1 2017: $61.4 million).
The company was founded in 1991 and has two businesses, thin-film equipment and photonics. »Our second-quarter results were stronger than forecast, with higher upgrade revenues in HDD equipment, and favorable gross margin performance in both Thin-film Equipment (TFE) and Photonics,« commented Wendell Blonigan, president and chief executive officer of Intevac.
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Solaredge extends lawsuit against Huawei and distributors

01.08.2018: Solaredge Technologies, Inc. has extended its lawsuit pending in the Mannheim District Court, Germany, against Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., a Chinese entity, Huawei Technologies Düsseldorf GmbH, a German entity, and Wattkraft Solar GmbH, a German distributor for Huawei, by asserting two additional patents related to its power optimizer technology. Also with regard to these two additional patents, Solaredge asserts unauthorized use of patented technology.
Seeking amongst others monetary damages, an injunction with regard to the German market, and recall of infringing Huawei optimizers from the German market, the lawsuits are intended to prevent the defendants from selling any optimizers as far as they do infringe upon Solaredge's IP on either of the two patents now asserted in Germany, says the company.
In June of 2018, Solaredge announced that it had filed its first patent infringement lawsuit in Germany against Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Huawei Technologies Düsseldorf GmbH, and Wattkraft, relating to its patented inverter technology.
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