Ben Willis

China-based PV manufacturer, Goldpoly New Energy, has reached an agreement with Kunlun, a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation, to acquire a 500MW PV project portfolio in China.

The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais is in line to become home to the country’s first PV cell and module manufacturing plant.

German project developer SAG Solarstrom has insisted it is weathering continued difficulties in Europe's PV market despite posting a €6.9 million (US$9.3 million) loss for the first nine months of the year.

NextEra Energy Resources, one of North America’s biggest renewable energy owner operators, has revealed it has a solar project backlog of 800MW.

China’s Ministry of Commerce has said it will extend a probe into imports of solar-grade polysilicon from Europe by six months.

The increase in global carbon dioxide emissions slowed last year because of a shift towards renewable energy usage, a major new study claims.

The head of the US’s solar trade body has called on the industry to unite against efforts to disrupt the country’s deployment of solar technology.

AVACO, a specialist manufacturer of sputtering (PVD) vacuum deposition equipment and atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment, has announced the development of a new concept buffer layer deposition for photovoltaic cells.

German inverter manufacturer Solutronic has filed for insolvency in a German district court.

Energy efficiency has been described as the world’s “first fuel” in efforts to cut carbon emissions and promote energy security in a major new report from the International Energy Agency.