US installer SolarCity has announced pricing details of its second securitisation, which investment banking firm Roth Capital has described as an “evolutionary step on the path to lower-cost financing".
SunEdison has announced financial close on a 50MW solar plant in Chile, which it claims is Latin America’s largest operational PV plant and also one of the biggest PV projects in the world operating without subsidies.
Portuguese renewable energy developer, EDP Renováveis (EDPR), has secured €30 million (US$41 million) in project finance for 50MW of Romanian PV, despite recent cuts to the county's solar incentives.
US conglomerate General Electric (GE) will invest in the running of Japan’s largest solar power plant, an ¥80 billion (US$777 million) scheduled for completion in 2018, according to reports in Japanese and international media.
RGS Energy has made the latest in a series of “strategic acquisitions”, signing an agreement to purchase Hawaiian full service solar energy firm Elemental Energy, which trades under the brand name Sunetric.
Market conditions in the PV industry continued to impact PV inverter leader, SMA Solar Technology in 2013, with the company registering a loss of €89.1 million for the full year.
Komax Group has taken its first step away from the solar industry, selling its 51% stake in joint venture (JV) company Komax Jinchen to its Chinese JV partner, Yingkou Jinchen.
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%.
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.
