Production has begun on Saudi Arabia’s first locally-made solar inverters through a partnership between KACO and local company Advanced Electronics Company (AEC).
Scotland’s government has decided to go against the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC) Renewables Obligation proposals and retain the grandfathering guarantee.
The UK government’s response to a petition calling for dramatic feed-in tariff cut proposals to be reversed has been criticised after it insisted expected returns of 4% would be “appropriate” for the industry to operate.
PV module assembly equipment specialist Spire Corporation has reached out to Massachusetts-based investment bank Mirus Capital Advisors in order to explore alternative measures for the company — including measures such as the potential sale of Spire or some of its assets.
Clean energy communications and consulting firm Mercom Capital Group is holding firm on its projection of 57.4GW of global installations in 2015 — standing as a growth of 25-30% when compared to other years.
PV project developer Sky Solar Holdings has secured funds totalling US$100 million from Hudson Clean Energy Partners for projects in Latin America and Japan.
The removal of Tony Abbott from his premiership along with the arrival of Malcolm Turnbull as the new prime minister of Australia and various government appointments related to renewable energy have been welcomed by the Australian Solar Council.
A world entirely powered by renewable energy is achievable by 2050 and is a scenario that is becomingly increasingly essential to prevent runaway climate change, a Greenpeace study has claimed.
Chile had 597MW of operational solar PV capacity at the end of August, up 46MW in the two months since the end of June when operational capacity stood at 553MW.
