The boards of Taiwan-based PV manufacturers Neo Solar Power (NSP) and DelSolar have approved the second stage of the planned merger of the two companies.
GDF SUEZ has entered into an agreement to sell a 60% equity interest in its 680MW Canadian renewable generation portfolio to Mitsui & Co and a consortium led by Fiera Axium Infrastructure.
The Energy Solutions division of German technology manufacturer Gildemeister has been awarded contracts worth €29.2 million (US$38.5 million) to deliver PV power plants and energy storage technology in Romania, Germany and Italy.
Specialist PV equipment supplier, GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) said it would exit the Directional Solidification System (DSS) market altogether due to market conditions that are not expected to recover sufficiently to justify continued involvement in the sector.
On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), KfW Entwicklungsbank, has signed a €10 million (US$13 million) loan guarantee with Brazil’s Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais (CEMIG) for the Solar World Cup 2014 project.
Solar module manufacturer Silevo appointed Aaron Thurlow as its Vice-President of sales and marketing, a position that will see him manage the market expansion for the company’s Triex technology.
UK-based solar wafer producer, PV Crystalox Solar will implement a significant reduction in its workforce, while discontinuing its polysilicon operations in Germany and heavily cut ingot production in the UK and wafer production in Germany.
Wacker Chemie, a Munich-based manufacturer of solar products, will see its current executive board member and personnel director, Wilhelm Sittenthaler, step down on 31 December 2012.
Ralf Lüdemann has been appointed as the new lead for Schmid’s energy storage business unit, and will play a key role as advisor to the photovoltaic (PV) related business units.
Law firm Metaxas and Associates will be representing several foreign and Greek renewable energy sources (RES) investors in a bid to lodge a complaint with the European Commission on the retroactive taxation on RES, recently imposed by the Greek Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change.
