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The investor owned electric and gas utility, Ameren Corporation is continuing its major solar energy initiative, with a 5.7MW solar farm in Missouri.

SolarWorld has received court approval for its ongoing restructuring process, the final administrative hurdle to its reorganisation.

Former US president Bill Clinton is to head a panel of top speakers at an international clean-tech investment conference in Frankfurt, Germany, next week.

US module manufacturer Suniva has secured a 1.1MW order from Mexico and hailed the potential opportunity for American firms south of the border.

Time is running out for the struggling solar module manufacturer aleo solar, with Bosch only providing financial support for its subsidiary through to the end of March 2014.

Chile’s Ministry of Energy and government agency for entrepreneurship, COFO, has awarded a tender for South America’s first concentrated solar power (CSP) plant.

JinkoSolar has acquired the manufacturing assets of the struggling Topoint group of companies.

California’s 579MW Solar Star project has begun partial operation and is now supplying electricity to California’s grid.

The Chinese government’s list of approved solar manufacturers, which threatened to leave three quarters of the country’s operators in the wilderness, will not spill over into the global PV market, according to industry analysts IHS.

Panasonic has launched the ‘HIT-N245’ and ‘HIT-N240’ PV modules into the European market as part of its drive to re-establish both a key position amongst leading manufacturers and regain share in the European market.