Andy Colthorpe

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its fifth assessment report, Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis, in which the organisation argued that the human influence on climate change was undeniable.

Construction has been completed on a 4.2MW solar power plant in Odessa, Ukraine, by ET Solutions, a subsidiary of the multi-national ET Solar.

US PV company SunPower is to build Project Salvador, an unsubsidised 70MWp PV power plant in the Atacama Desert region of Chile.

A Chilean renewable energy research institute report revealed that Chile has reached 127MW in capacity of solar projects under development.

Following an agreement with Acciona Energy Oceania, solar PV structure manufacturer Mecasolar will supply the fixed structure to a 24MWp capacity solar farm in Australia.

Utility company E.ON has joined the board of US trade association Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).

A contract has been signed for the first solar power plant to be built in the Gulf state of Kuwait, a 280MW solar thermal power plant in Al-Abdaliya.

The Canadian Solar Industries Association (CanSIA) has sent recommendations to the Ontario Ministry of Energy for boosting Ontario's PV sector, including a target for generating 5% of the province's energy from solar power by 2025.

According to the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC), 578MW of solar capacity from large-scale projects was added in the US during August 2013.

Swedish company Sol Voltaics has acquired enough funding to take the its high-efficiency 'Solink' gallium arsenide nanomaterial into pilot production.