Ben Willis

The Chinese government is to introduce from next week provisional anti-dumping duties against solar-grade polysilicon imports from the United States and South Korea.

Austria-based PV developer Activ Solar has commissioned the 34MW Bolgrad Solar Park in Odessa, Ukraine.

Chinese manufacturer ReneSola has secured a deal to provide 32MW of its modules for a series of PV projects in Japan.

Solar venture capital investments increased by over US$60 million in the second quarter of 2013, having hit a record low in the first part of the year.

Solar mounting system manufacturer Clenergy is to develop 100MW of PV projects in Huaping County in the Chinese city of Lijiang.

Japanese PV manufacturer Panasonic is to close its module factory in Hungary at the expense of 550 jobs.

GE Ventures, part of global power equipment giant General Electric, has taken part in a US$15 million equity investment in leading US solar rooftop installer Sungevity.

India's largest power company, NTPC, has chosen PV developer Tata Solar Power to build a 50MW solar PV project at Rajgarh in the state of Madhya Pradesh.

The split between the two bodies that had jointly been working to realise the ambitious Desertec renewable energy vision was the culmination of a long-running dispute over the project’s strategy and governance, it has emerged.

Silicon Valley giant Apple is planning a 20MW solar installation to power a new data centre the company is building in Nevada.