Colin Marrs

A cotton mill in the south of India has installed a PV system, enabling it to reduce its reliance on a diesel generator during power grid outages.

Taiwan is set to prioritise domestic and industrial rooftop installations in order to increase solar capacity to 3.1GW by 2030, the country’s Ministry for Economic Affairs has announced.

Module manufacturer Canadian Solar’s project development subsidiary has sold a 10MW solar plant to energy provider TransCanada Corporation.

Los Angeles today turned on what local officials claim is the biggest solar feed-in tariff (FiT) of any US city.

Solar power producers are set to benefit from a $100 million investment in India’s clean energy sector backed by the US Agency for International Development.

Spanish solar developer Tentusol has announced plans for a 250MW unsubsidised solar “megapark” on up to 800ha of land in north-west Cádiz, according to reports.

SunEdison founder Jigar Shah has joined the board of Empower Energies, the solar provider formerly known as Visole Energy.

Canadian private investment firm JCM Capital has set up a company in Mexico to invest in utility-scale solar PV projects.

A massive rise in demand from businesses and power companies has seen Japanese domestic shipments of solar energy units and modules rocket in the wake of the country’s 2011 earthquake and subsequent nuclear disaster.