Manufacturing equipment firm Manz AG has raised around €26.9 million (US$36.6 million) an increase in cash capital, to be used for the ‘internal and external growth of the company’.
A solar survey in parallel with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) – or abolition Bill 2013 entering the senate reveals Australians love solar.
Chinese renewable energy project developer, Focusic New Energy Holding, has secured a loan of CNY200 million (US$32.8 million), from the China development bank.
The second of two major projects SunEdison is expecting to complete in Chile during the first quarter of 2014 has received project financing of US$100.4 million from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the US government's development finance institution and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group.
Still waiting for an upturn in solar module equipment orders, Spire Corporation reported third quarter revenue of US$4.2 million, slightly up from US$3.6 million reported in the second-quarter and up from US$2.6 million in the first quarter of 2013.
Clean energy consultancy, Mercom Capital Group, has predicted that domestic content requirements in the next phase of India’s national solar programme could lead to trade disputes.