Spain’s Court of Arbitration has ruled against two companies who filed a lawsuit against the Kingdom of Spain over reforms to the PV sector made in 2010, according to a statement from the Spanish Ministry of Industry.
The need for solar to find new ways of staying competitive in the US is increasing as a the pace of hardware cost reductions slows. Ben Willis looks at efforts going on to tackle some of the persistently high soft costs involved in US solar development
Wells Fargo and 8point3 Energy Partners — the yieldco company formed by SunPower and First Solar — has announced that a joint venture between the two companies has acquired 22MW of SunPower PV systems under constitution at 27 Kern High School District locations in Kern Country, California.
Solar Frontier believes it could make some of Japan’s as-yet-unbuilt utility-scale solar projects economically viable, as the company’s partnership with Goldman Sachs-affiliate Japan Renewable Energy prepares to take on 300MW of projects within the next five years.
Distributed generation connections in Brazil, which are dominated by solar technology, grew 308% in 2015, according to new figures released by Brazil’s energy regulator the National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL).
2015 was a landmark year for the Indian solar industry, with the 100GW by 2022 target approved and a significant ramp up of deployment. Bridge to India's Jyoti Gulia discusses the challenges ahead regarding project delays, transmission infrastructure and financing.
Developers in India have failed to install 680MW of solar PV projects that were due to be commissioned by December 2015 because of project delays, according to consultancy firm Bridge to India.
