Markets & Finance

In a joint statement from the Australian Minister for the Environment and Minister for Industry and Science, the government proposed a new approach to Australia’s renewable energy target (RET).

The Dubai Energy and Water Authority (DEWA) is to bring net metering to the Emirate through the launch of Shams Dubai, a new initiative aimed at encouraging and regulating the development of commercial and residential solar projects.

PV manufacturing equipment specialist Smit Ovens has filed for bankruptcy in the Netherlands to restructure its operations.

Texas will have an additional 10GW capacity of solar by 2029, according to a report by Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance (TAEBA).

Major institutional investors have warned politicians that interfering in solar support schemes could spook the market and lead to large amounts of investment being lost.

Leading US installer SolarCity has partnered with power company MP2 Energy on a programme to increase access to solar power in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.

Renewables will be a focus of German energy companies E.ON and RWE, according to their earning reports for 2014.

ReneSola has confirmed it is to exit the minimum import price (MIP) undertaking between China and the European Union.

The increasing amount of PV installed in combination with electrical storage options is bucking the trend in the opposite direction for overall residential solar installations in Germany.

Japanese CIS thin-film manufacturer, Solar Frontier, is to acquire the entire US project pipeline of Gestamp Solar in what the company said marked its first step towards becoming a significant global downstream player.