JinkoSolar US, a subsidiary of ‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member JinkoSolar, has increased its credit limit with Wells Fargo Capital Finance, a division of Wells Fargo Bank, to US$60 million from US$40 million with a three year term.
The solar segment is not short of new hires and comings and goings, with solar industry stakeholders responding to the shifts in a dynamic global market. In our inaugural Movers & Shakers segment, PV Tech attempts to bring the industry back to its roots and rounds up key career moves of the last fortnight.
In response to financial and environmental concerns, House Republicans reviewed a key tenet of Obama’s energy legislation, specifically the perceived lavish subsidies set aside for utility-scale solar power plants.
A significant decline in the cost of PV modules and project construction, as well as a shift from small-scale projects to cheaper capex utility-scale projects, is a main driver for an clean energy investment slowdown in 2016, says Bloomberg News Energy Finance (BNEF).
Array Technologies (ATI), one of the world's largest solar tracker manufacturers, has officially surpassed 5.6GW of trackers shipped globally. The company is also celebrating 11,000MW years of tracker operation.
India will soon unveil a solar PV manufacturing policy with manufacturers expected to be able to receive Viability Gap Funding (VGF) support via a bidding process, according to an industry consultant.
Green bonds have the potential to unlock vast new sums of capital for the deployment of solar and other low-carbon infrastructure. Katie House looks at how a relatively new concept is rapidly evolving into a potentially major source of clean energy finance.
Leading CdTe thin-film manufacturer First Solar is discontinuing development and production of its hybrid heterojunction silicon cell and module technology, acquired via the acquisition of start-up TetraSun.
