Markets & Finance

January 7, 2019
Inverter and smart energy manufacturer SolarEdge has acquired the Italian e-mobility firm SMRE.
January 7, 2019
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a €5.9 million loan to Macedonian state-owned electricity company ELEM to build a large-scale solar power plant on the site of a former lignite coal mine.
January 3, 2019
Just when it looked like the underlining trend for Tesla’s shift away from using third party mainstream solar panel suppliers was set in stone, as manufacturing partner Panasonic started ramping Gigafactory 2 production, the latest data for the third quarter of 2018, goes completely in a different direction.
January 3, 2019
Aventron signs EPC contracts with Solarpack for 100MW of post-subsidy solar in Spain, EBRD and FMO back 30MW solar plant in Ukraine, NTPC gets investment approval for 160MW of solar in Uttar Pradesh.
January 3, 2019
China-based PV module manufacturer Hareon Solar Technology Co has reported that its main manufacturing subsidiary, Jiangyin Xinhui Solar Energy Co has been forced into bankruptcy liquidation, due to bad debts in the People's Court of Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province.
January 2, 2019
Leading polysilicon and solar wafer producer GCL-Poly Energy Holdings has reported a consolidated loss attributable to owners of the company’s shares of approximately RMB 534 million (US$77.8 million) for the first 10-months of 2018.
January 2, 2019
Sweden-based flexible CIGS thin-film solar cell equipment supplier Midsummer has recently said it had secured a U$7 million order from US start-up, Sunflare, which has developed a new solar roof tile system that was displayed at SPI 2018.
January 2, 2019
Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has issued a request for selection (RfS) for 7.5GW of grid-connected solar PV projects, including implementation of power transmission and evacuation infrastructure, in the Leh and Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir state.
January 2, 2019
Vietnamese conglomerate Sao Mai Group has signed an agreement with local financier HD Bank to jointly work on a 210MW solar PV project in Vietnam.
December 20, 2018
Inverter and smart energy manufacturer SolarEdge has a back catalogue of solar-themed parody videos but this year’s effort, Solar Joy, has raised the bar.

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