Dutch specialist sun simulator equipment provider Eternal Sun has purchased the PV volume production equipment sun simulator business unit of struggling US-based Spire Corp for US$1.5 million.
SolarCity has produced commercials that “reframe” the debate between fossil fuels and renewables in “deliberately practical terms”, comparing the complexity of generating and delivering power from fossil fuel plants against the immediacy of rooftop PV.
‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member JinkoSolar has confirmed it has secured a 1GW module supply deal with US-based independent power producer (IPP) sPower.
Multinational developers are winning solar projects in India by bidding at extremely low tariffs to make a beginning in the Indian market, but with little appetite to bid at the same low levels again, according to a prominent industry figure.
Developers in Japan with large-scale PV projects in the pipeline have been given just over a year to prove their projects will go ahead, or will lose their feed-in tariff (FiT).
Single-axis PV tracking systems specialist NEXTracker, recently acquired by contract manufacturer, Flextronics is expanding its local manufacturing footprint to Mexico through facilities owned and operated by its parent company in Mexico, which has a number of production facilities in the country.
Troubled renewables firm SunEdison has continued to come under pressure from hostile investors to change some of its business strategies, remove certain executives and force a sale of the business, as well as further class action law suits being filed against the company.
Indian conglomerate Adani Group and solar developer Azure Power have both been awarded 50MW of capacity with winning bids of INR 4.78/kWh (US$0.07) in the 100MW solar auction in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
