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PV equipment specialist SoLayTec, recently acquired by Amtech Systems has secured an evaluation testing period for its ALD (atomic layer deposition) system with Hanwha Q CELLS.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has praised India’s push for solar energy calling it “an historic opportunity”.

The latest contender to challenge for the title of world’s largest merchant PV plant will be an 80MW project in the Antifagasto region of Chile to be built by Greenwood Energy.

The Italian government has confirmed a raft of new charges for PV system owners.

Sunrun has closed a financing deal with Investec worth US$195 million, meaning that over half a billion dollars of investment has gone into the US residential solar sector across just two deals this week.

Solar energy took almost half of all renewable energy investment in 2014, according to the latest figures from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).

Market research firm IHS has detailed what it deems to be some of the key PV industry market trends in 2015.

Belief that a major contribution from solar to energy needs in the US is no longer a distant prospect appears to be hardening among Americans, according to a poll.

One of the founders of PV inverter maker SMA Solar Technology, Günther Cramer, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 62 after a “long, difficult illness,” the company has announced.

The project arm of German PV wholesaler Krannich Solar has agreed a 40MW development partnership with Turkey’s Basak Group.