Deutsche Bank analyst Vishal Shah has said US installer SolarCity could be one of the indirect winners from news that SunEdison and its yieldco, TerraForm Power, are to acquire residential installer Vivint Solar.
Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) figures have underlined previous analysis by PV Tech suggesting a mass overseas relocation of production capacity by Chinese PV manufacturers in response to increasingly hostile trading conditions.
Utility solar systems in the US offer significant cost and environmental benefits over rooftop residential PV systems due to higher electric output and economies of scale, research suggests.
Public market financing of solar companies reached a record US$2.3 billion in the second quarter of 2015, bucking an overall downward trend in corporate solar funding during Q2.
Solar companies in the Philippines are planning to push the country’s government to quadruple the amount of solar qualifying for its feed-in tariff scheme, according to reports.
Solar Impulse 2, the aircraft on a pioneering solar-powered navigation of the globe, has thrown off a recent run of poor luck to break several world records on its leg between Japan and Hawaii.
French semiconductor specialist Soitec claims to have achieved a 38.9% conversion efficiency in a module incorporating one of its high-efficiency four-junction concentrator PV (CPV) cells.
