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Wildly varying reports of Kenya’s plans for deploying solar energy have been dismissed by power industry and policy figures in the East African country.

The national trade association for the energy storage industry in the US has changed its name to the Energy Storage Association as well as appointing a new executive director and launching a revamped website.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) has said that preliminary estimates indicate that the PV industry end demand reached as high as 39GW in 2013, up 28% from 2012 and driven by massive growth in China, Japan and the US in particular.

Chinese PV manufacturer, ReneSola has announced the opening of a new office in Cape Town, South Africa.

The German cabinet approved a new charge on self-consumed solar power on Wednesday.

Chile’s pipeline of approved but unbuilt PV projects reached over 5.33GW at the end of December, according to the country’s renewable energy research centre CER.

Sharp Corporation is planning to stop PV module assembly production at its plant in Memphis, Tennessee by the end of March 2014, according to reports citing company officials.

First Solar said it had started construction of a 22MW PV power plant in Pecos County, Texas.

US-based investment bank, ROTH Capital Partners cleantech analysts have raised their 2014 market forecast for the PV industry.

Major solar manufacturer, Canadian Solar, has received a 91% efficiency PV US test condition (PTC) rating for two of its modules.