Iceland’s prime minister has welcomed news that Silicor Materials has taken a step closer to establishing its “low cost” commercial-scale solar silicon plant, securing US$105 million of equity capital agreements.
The Mesquite Solar 2 addition is expected to be completed in late 2016, prior to the step-down of the US Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for utility projects from 30% to 10%.
German-headquartered PV manufacturer SolarWorld will launch a 72-cell bifacial solar panel at this week’s Solar Power International trade show in California.
After the warning note sounded last night at the launch of Solar Power International 2015 over the impact of the pending investment tax credit drop-off, the first full day of the show saw this theme take centre stage.
Renewable energy company Coronal Group and Panasonic Eco Solutions have announced a new portfolio of eight PV projects currently under construction in North Carolina.
Solar developer Conergy has extended its bank guarantee facility with Tennenbaum Capital to US$75 million using funding from Goldman Sachs BDC in order to power an expansion of its solar business.
Meyer Burger has agreed to supply a PV system incorporating the company’s newest heterojunction cell technologies (HJT) and bi-facial PV modules, to one of Switzerland’s biggest retailers.
A presentation by Fraunhofer ISE at EU PVSEC 2015 claims to offer a better approach to higher efficiency solar cells and low cost production after reporting a record cell efficiency of 25.1%.
