Ben Willis

Leading US PV installer SolarCity is to acquire American module manufacturer Silevo in a major move that could see it producing its own modules within two years.

Renewable energy accounted for a record share of global energy consumption last year, but so too did coal, hitting its highest level since 1970.

Independent power producer, Tenaska, has reached financial close on its 150MW Imperial Solar Energy Center West project in California.

Nearly 60% of commercial and residential consumers in India favour solar as a future power source, according to market analyst firm Mercom Capital.

Kenya has lifted VAT charges on all solar equipment imported into the East African country.

The energy minister of Namibia, southern Africa, has called for greater deployment of solar to provide power in off-grid locations.

Investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency will fall well below what is required to head off dangerous global warming without a breakthrough in the Paris climate change talks next year, the International Energy Agency has warned.

The deployment of solar storage units in German is set to boom over the next few years in what has been hailed a “quiet revolution” for the PV industry.

Five years of predicted global growth in PV installations will offset Europe's decline as the world’s once-leading solar region, according to the European Photovoltaic Industry Association.

A 1MW PV power plant, currently the largest in East Africa, has been completed at the Changoi Team Farm in Kenya.