Ben Willis

Adept Technology, which makes robotics equipment for the solar and other markets, has appointed Michael Schradle as its new Chief Financial Officer.

A new “clean energy jobs fund” is to be created in California using money from a closed loophole that had allowed companies to avoid paying millions of dollars of tax in the state.

Energy management company Schneider Electric has secured over 100MW worth of projects in India with its new Conext Core XC Inverter in the three months since its launch.

The first phase of Catalina Solar, EDF Renewable Energy’s 143MWp solar plant in Kern County, California, is to begin operation in December.

A planned restructuring of Panasonic may see its production of solar panels, small lithium batteries and other products curtailed in response to low demand and low profitability, according to reports.

Officials from Colorado-based Abound Solar are facing a criminal investigation over possible fraud, it has emerged.

Every megawatt of new electrical generation capacity in the US in September came from solar or wind power, official figures reveal.

MidAmerican Solar and First Solar, developers of the 550MW Topaz solar farm in California, have installed the project’s millionth PV unit.

SRU Solar and Berlin-based Parabel have jointly completed a 29MW solar farm between the cities of Eisleben Wimmelburg, bringing back to life a 100ha former metal works site.

Housing charity Habitat for Humanity is launching an initiative to provide solar installations for households in Ofunato, a Japanese city that was badly hit by last year’s tsunami.