India crossed the 5GW mark for installed solar capacity this week, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).
Diversified renewables firm Shunfeng International Clean Energy (SFCE) has warned that profits for the full-year 2015 would be lower than expected and below the previous year, due to a number of issues that include lower product ASPs.
The Brazilian state of Alagoas has become the latest state to grant solar PV consumers an exemption from the ICMS state sales tax under the net metering scheme.
Canadian-based PV project developer JCM Capital said it had secured an undisclosed tranche of funds as part of a US$50 million private placement offering for project financing requirements of three projects scheduled to reach financial close during 2016 and 2017.
Corporations and utilities are already interested in energy storage but must collaborate to advance deployment and lower costs, avoiding some of the past mistakes of the PV industry, according to the heads of one California-based industry group.
PV tracking systems specialist Exosun has secured orders totalling 11MWp for its ‘Exotrack’ HZ horizontal single-axis solar trackers from EPC, Phoenix Solar, for three PV power plant projects in Jordan.
Spain’s Constitutional Court has published the full details of its judgement rejecting appeals against a decrease in feed-in tariffs for renewable energy sources, but the reasoning has been branded “short, superficial and alien to reality” by a legal representative.
