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Another major milestone has been reached in the 550MW Topaz Solar Farms construction with a total of five million, First Solar-made CdTe thin-film modules having been installed.

Shunfeng Photovoltaics International, the company revealed yesterday as a bidder for struggling Wuxi Suntech, has secured a HK$980,000,000 (US$126,000,000) loan to expand its PV project development business.

The UK solar industry has united to build a new installer ratings website to help consumers avoid the cowboys.

Norwegian manufacturer REC’s division into REC Solar and REC Silicon has made it possible for the company to “invest heavily in research and development again”, according to REC Solar’s senior vice president for sales and marketing, Luc Graré.

Mercom Capital has published its Q3 2013 Solar Funding and M&A Report, in which the clean energy communications and consultancy firm claims that total corporate funding, global venture capital funding and solar mergers and acquisitions activities all showed increases from the previous quarter.

Wind and solar produced as much as 60% of Germany’s electricity during the 3 October, according to an energy consultant.

Sanctions including the withdrawal of feed-in tariff (FiT) certification are being considered by the Japanese government for PV projects that have been approved under the country’s FiT but remain unbuilt.

Electricity engineer, and inverter manufacturer Ingeteam has supplied 1MW of its ‘Ingecon Sun PowerStation’ solution to a 1.2MW PV project.

Indianapolis International Airport is to house what is said to be the largest solar farm at any US airport.

TUV Rheinland has awarded six energy storage certificates to Phono Solar, for the Phonocube all-in-one PV inverter and storage system.