Hanergy Thin Film Power Group has signed a US$130 million, 100MW supply deal with Japanese firm, Forest Group to supply its ‘HanTile’ thin-film solar roof tile systems in the Japanese market.
China-based polysilicon and multicrystalline wafer producer Daqo New Energy has said it would discontinue its solar wafer manufacturing operations in September, 2018.
Despite no publicly declared major incidents of cyberattack in the renewable energy sector to date, successful attacks on the wider energy industry are expected to be replicated in the future, according to the chief of an insurer now offering cover for such threats to clean energy.
Grasshopper Solar, Canada's largest vertically integrated solar energy company, signed off on a US$80 million investment in Setouchi Koken's Iizuka Solar Plant, located in Fukuoka, Japan.
In an effort to cut down on the digital divide present in rural India, Jharkhand-based company Edimpact is making an effort to bring digital literacy to these communities. And it's using PV to accomplish its goal.
Macquarie Capital Korea, a subsidiary of investment firm Macquarie Group, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the county office of Goesan in South Korea to finance a significant solar-plus-storage project, while it has also invested in what is said to be the largest energy storage project base in the country.
Thai firm B.Grimm Power has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Vietnamese utility EVN for its 420MW solar project, according to a Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) filing.
Centrica has signed off on an agreement that will see the company acquire Vista Solar, a California solar engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company serving commercial, institutional and industrial customers.
Ingeteam will supply inverters to what is said to be Europe's largest PV project standing at 500MW in the region of Murcia in Spain, being built by ACS Group and its subsidiary Cobra.
