Renewables firm SunEdison currently in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings confirmed in a statement that it was in talks with its two publically listed yieldco subsidiaries to sell its ownership interest and other rights in the yieldcos.
A 10MW PV installation has been commissioned on the Teesta canal bank of West Bengal as part of the governments’ scheme for canal-top and canal-bank projects. This project is the first canal-bank project to be commissioned under the new measure.
Chile has appointed five directors for the Board of its Independent Coordinator of the National Electric System, after its major transmission law upheaval.
The European subsidiary of leading module manufacturer Yingli Green has partnered with climate change charity SolarAid to launch an affordable solar-powered light for distribution in rural Africa.
Schneider Electric is launching the ‘Conext SmartGen’ an intelligent, cloud-connected 1500 volt utility scale power conversion system, with a suite of supporting software solutions called the ‘Power EcoSystem’, including the cloud-based monitoring and control solution ‘Conext Advisor 2’.
There is a need for a pan-European investor-state dispute settlement mechanism, to give the solar industry a unified legal body to help it fight retroactive cuts and other policy U-turns across the continent, according to a European trade group.
