A lack of clarity around India’s recently enforced Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill has caused a PV tender delay in the state of Gujarat and prompted the nation’s energy storage alliance to write a letter of appeal to the government.
Major metallization paste producer Heraeus Photovoltaics said it had lost a patent case against Taiwan-based Giga Solar in the Taiwanese Intellectual Property Court but noted it was reviewing the findings before deciding on an appeal.
London-headquartered investment firm Foresight Group has acquired the 7.2MW Vale Matanças solar farm in Alcácer do Sal, Portugal, developed by Exus Management Partners.
Taiwan-based cell and module producer Neo Solar Power (NSP) said its downstream PV project subsidiary General Energy Solutions (GES) had sold a 14.68MW project in Fukushima, Japan and was the first time a Taiwanese company had completed and sold a utility-scale plant in Japan.
Leading polysilicon and solar wafer producer GCL-Poly Energy Holdings has sold a 10% share in its planned 60,000MT polysilicon plant in Xinjiang, China for around US$22 million (RMB 150 million) to monocrystalline wafer producer Tianjin Zhonghuan Semiconductor Co.
India is reaching out to its renewables R&D contributors to create a roadmap, Dominion has purchased a solar power system in Virginia, TerraForm Power has an extension to regain compliance with its Nasdaq listing.
Sandeep Nath, CMO, Shri Shakti Alternative Energy Ltd, an India-based company that offers specialized Solar O&M Solutions and diagnostic services, discusses how to approach acquiring plants from an O&M perspective.
