The long and painful saga of SunEdison’s fall from grace would seem to be at an end after the renewables firm officially emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy on December 29, 2017.
The German subsidiary of UK firm Oxford Photovoltaics (PV) has been awarded €15 million (~US$18 million) by the European Investment bank (EIB) to support the commercialisation of the company’s perovskite photovoltaic technology.
Specialist PV manufacturing equipment supplier Singulus Technologies said that its major CIGS (Copper-Indium-Gallium-Diselenide) thin-film module customer in China, China National Building Materials (CNBM) had secured a minority interest in the company.
PV project developer ReneSola has completed and grid connected over 90MW of distributed generation (DG) rooftop projects in China in the second half of 2017.
Taiwan-based merchant PV manufacturer and downstream project developer Neo Solar Power Corporation (NSP) said a Joint Venture business unit had secured syndicated loans valued at NT$5 billion (US169 million) to build PV power plants totalling 100MW in Taiwan.
Tata Power Renewable Energy (TPREL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Power, has commissioned a 50MW DCR solar plant at Pavagada Solar Park in Karnataka.
A subsidiary of Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company has purchased a yet to be constructed 26MW PV project located in Imperial County, California, from Solar Frontier Americas.
Canadian Solar has signed an Operations & Maintenance (O&M) agreement with Axium Infinity Solar LP for eight PV projects that have a combined generation capacity of 105.5MW. The firm has also announced commercial operation of a 19.1MW PV project in Japan.
