India will enforce renewable generation targets as part of impending new energy policy, Piyush Goyal, minister for coal, power and new & renewable energy (MNRE) has said.
The hype surrounding India’s plans to install 100GW of solar by 2022 went to a new level at the weekend as India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and Piyush Goyal, Minister of State for power attended the first government backed event to kick-start investment in Modi’s plans.
US-based polysilicon producer REC Silicon is planning to attempt to shift its current FBR-based (fluidised bed reactor) polysilicon production sales away from China over tariff duty uncertainties and the eventual ramp of its JV FBR-base plant in China in 2017.
The start of the first attempt to fly around the world powered by solar energy is now just two weeks away, starting in the United Arab Emirates, with the flight’s control centre revealed to be in Monaco.
The Bolivian government has chosen German engineering firm DEEA Solutions to carry out a feasibility study for what would be the country’s first grid-connected PV power plant.
Alternative energy firm Coronal Group has purchased the majority of the assets from HelioSage Energy and has founded Coronal Development Services — establishing a solar development solutions company available to clients in North America.
Chinese PV manufacturer Zhongli Talesun has officially started construction of a 500MW integrated solar cell and modules assembly plant in the Thai-China Industrial Park in Rayong, Thailand.
Inverter manufacturers face a growing but increasingly tough market over the next four years characterised by cost pressures and ever tighter margins, GTM Research claims.
