The Federal Network Agency (FNA), the German national energy regulator, today launched its fourth successful PV tender, totalling 128MW of PV across 21 bids.
Former integrated PV manufacturer LDK Solar has entered liquidation proceedings in the Cayman Islands, while its mainland China assets undergo restructuring.
India could file trade cases against the US over violation of World Trade Organisation (WTO) norms related to the protection of solar panel producers in various US states, says energy minister.
PV Tech’s preliminary analysis of global PV manufacturing capacity expansion announcements for March, 2016 has revealed over 7.3GW of planned future expansions of solar cell and module production.
Developers of the majority of projects awarded in Brazil’s first solar-only tender round in 2014 have submitted a request to the regulator to delay construction by two years, according to a report.
Google is providing a seed grant to the Centre of Resource Solutions (CRS) to establish a coalition of stakeholders, which will support expansion of renewable energy market infrastructure throughout Asia, starting in Taiwan.
The output of a 16MW solar farm in Puerto Rico will be tied to an Aquion ‘saltwater’ battery, in one of the few current trials of moving solar power produced in the daytime to be used at night.
SolarCity announced yesterday that Jon Wellinghoff, former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), is joining the company as chief policy officer.
Sharp Corporation’s energy solutions business, which includes its activities in solar, will continue to operate as a brand in its own right, following the sale of a majority share in the group by Foxconn.