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Norway based developer, Scatec Solar, is to build a 10MW PV power plant in Jordan.

The top 50 module manufacturers are to add 10GW of new capacity in 2014, predicts PV Pulse.

Solar PV has reached grid parity in Spain, Germany and Italy according to a new report by the consultancy Eclareon.

Ukraine’s ministry of energy and coal industry has announced Crimea’s solar power projects are to stop receiving payments under the country’s feed-in tariff.

The state senate of Vermont in the US has approved an increase in the cap placed on solar net metering.

US solar provider RGS Energy (Real Goods Solar), which operates in the residential, commercial and utility sectors, has reported full-year results for 2013, in which the company saw revenues rise year on year by 9%.

Chinese PV module manufacturer CSUN has been awarded the title of tier one module supplier by the Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) PV Module Maker Tiering System.

The minimum price for Chinese PV modules imported into the EU free of tariffs is set to be cut from €0.56 (US$0.77) to €0.53/Watt (US$0.73), according to reports in China.

Led by BofA Merrill Lynch, SolarCity has secured US$250 million in a new financing facility to support the roll-out of more than 200MW of PV system installations in the US.

CPV solar cell producer, EMCORE will make the modules for a NASA satellite using its ZTJ triple-junction III-V solar cells.