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International renewable energy producers, Enel Green Power (EGP), has completed two new photovoltaic plants in Salerno Province, Italy.

Module manufacturer Canadian Solar’s project development subsidiary has sold a 10MW solar plant to energy provider TransCanada Corporation.

Having received an unspecified capital injection, CIGS thin-film start-up Solarion has successfully exited insolvency proceedings.

The split between the two bodies that had jointly been working to realise the ambitious Desertec renewable energy vision was the culmination of a long-running dispute over the project’s strategy and governance, it has emerged.

A joint venture 100MW solar project in north India has been approved and is expected to be complete by 2014.

Silicon Valley giant Apple is planning a 20MW solar installation to power a new data centre the company is building in Nevada.

PV Crystalox Solar has sold its polysilicon production operations in Bitterfeld, Germany to the former management team, contributing €12.3 million to the renamed Silicon Products Research Engineering Production in the process.

The capacity of solar and wind energy storage systems (ESS) could reach 21.8GW by 2023 as increased renewable energy generation makes the grid increasingly unstable, according to a Navigant Research report.

US-based ultra-thin silicon wafer start-up Crystal Solar is planning to complete pilot production of its ‘Epi Thin-Silicon’ technology this year with volume production targeted sometime in 2014.

A select group of Suntech Power Holdings bondholders have agreed a second time extension to talks over its US$541 million debt payment default.