The Taiwan government has decided to lodge an official complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the latest import duties imposed on solar cells and modules imported into the US.
Independent power producer Sonnedix has acquired 11 PV plants in Italy totalling 6.75MW, taking the firm’s portfolio in the country up to 114MW of operating PV generation capacity.
PV Tech caught up with Ugo Salerno, chairman and CEO of Italy-based advisory RINA, alongside the firm’s technical director for power and renewables, Simon Turner, to discuss storage retrofits in the UK, financing floating PV and upgrading hastily built European solar plants.
Silicon Module Super League (SMSL) member Canadian Solar has partnered Amsterdam-headquartered Photon Energy NV to co-develop five utility-scale solar power projects, with a total capacity of 1.14GW in New South Wales, Australia.
The European Union will provide €578 million to build a major power link running through the Bay of Biscay to export Spain’s excess renewable energy to France, in a move that has been welcomed by France, Spain and Portugal.
South Korea has requested consultations with the US government over its newly announced solar import tariffs, threatening legal action at the World Trade Organization (WTO) if the dispute is not resolved, according to documents filed at the WTO.
Residential solar system financier Sunlight Financial has announced an extension of a solar loan partnership with Tech CU that will see Tech CU commit another US$400 million for about 15,000 loans originated by Sunlight’s network of solar installers.
In President Trump's statement imposing a 30% import duty on all foreign made crystalline silicon solar cells and modules reference was made to renewed efforts that would be made to resolve the trade war with China over polysilicon duties on US producers, effectively locking them out of the market.
