Major monocrystalline wafer producer Longi Silicon Materials has signed an agreement with Yan'an City, Shaanxi Province Qi County People's Government to build a 100MW monocrystalline module based PV power plant.
Chile’s Ministry of National Resources is holding a public tender for 2,896 hectares of land in the region of Arica and Parinacota to be used for renewable energy projects.
Leading Silicon Module Super League member Trina Solar has added 27MW of distributed generation (DG) PV projects to its balance sheet after completing and connecting three projects to the grid in Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, China at the end of December 2015.
A team of teachers volunteering to educate refugees and displaced peoples among the camps of Calais in northern France, will power a mobile school with a solar-plus-storage system.
Canadian Solar is introducing a 72-cell, 1500V ‘Diamond’ CS6X-P-FG PV module with heat-strengthened double glass configuration for commercial and utility-scale applications and is designed for high voltage systems of up to 1500 VDC, saving BOS costs.
Last year saw a number of emerging solar markets begin to fulfil their potential, setting up some promising prospects for 2016. Josefin Berg, senior solar analyst at market research firm, IHS, discusses the emerging-market highlights of 2015 and what to expect in 2016.
State-owned firm the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) is to issue INR17.2 billion (US$257 million) in tax-free bonds from today for the financing of renewable energy projects in the financial year 2015/16.
The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has signed an MoU with the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to work together on developing an initial 500MW capacity of off-site solar projects over three years.
