The €50.8 million (US$67.5 million) funding budget for small scale PV systems has had more than 90,000 applications for the 15% rebate on PV equipment purchased from 2012 to 2013.
US installer Real Goods Solar (RGS) has reported a small drop in revenue for Q2 2013 compared to the same period last year despite an increase in deployments.
Construction will begin in a "matter of weeks" on the first utility-scale solar plant to be built on a Native American reserve it was announced today at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas.
As expected, Sunways said that preliminary insolvency proceedings against the assets of the company by its banks have been stopped and the local court in Konstanz has closed the case.
The 345MW Copper Mountain Solar 3 PV power plant project being built by AMEC in Boulder City, Nevada is to use 1.1 million PV modules supplied by Trina Solar.
Although the downstream market shift from East to West is resulting in higher growth rates for PV engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firms in Asia, leading PV energy provider (PVEP), First Solar continues to top the EPC rankings with more single projects primarily in the US, compared to its rivals, according to IHS.
