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Semiconductor and solar equipment supplier, Orbotech has received a repeat order for its ‘Aurora’ PECVD tools worth around US$15 million.

A week after German utility giant E.ON announced its withdrawal from fossil fuels and an exclusive focus on renewables, further evidence has emerged that utilities face growing disruption from distributed energy technologies.

Trina Solar, newly crowned as 2014’s top module manufacturer, is buying a minority stake in Shuntai Leasing in a move aimed at underpinning its downstream and manufacturing growth plans.

Chinese module manufacturer Suntech is targeting an increase in its market share for PV modules in the Benelux countries from 3% to 13% by 2015.

Major PV manufacturer JA Solar has shipped 100MW of PV modules to the Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park in Pakistan.

PV project developer and EPC firm, SPI Solar plans to acquire and develop the 9.9MW Beaver Run Solar Farm in Lafayette, New Jersey.

Major PV manufacturer JinkoSolar said that its 60-cell multicrystalline silicon ‘Eagle+’ series modules have achieved power output of 306.9 Watts.

A new finance venture backed by SunEdison founder Jigar Shah, will focus on selling the benefits of renewables and resource efficiency measures, putting technical innovation to one side.

Taiwan-based specialist PV module manufacturer, WINAICO said it had received US 1000V UL certification for its WST and WSP-series high-efficiency modules.

Subsidy-free solar in the UK could thrive by the end of the decade, according to a report published by Berlin-based think tank Thema1 and supported by a coalition of European companies.