Power Plants

China has scored the highest on Ernst & Young’s country attractiveness indices (CAI) index for February 2013.

Electronics giant Panasonic has launched its 100 Thousand Solar Lantern Project which will see the company donate a total of 100,000 solar LED lanterns to people around the world with no access to electricity.

A significant reduction in new PV capacity in Germany has been forecasted by EuPD Research for 2013.

A 145MW solar project located in Neuhardenberg, Germany, and owned by a number of unnamed financial institutions and investors has been completed and is set to connect to the grid on 8 March, 2013.

Hundreds of thousands of Scheuten Solar Holding-manufactured solar modules have been declared a fire risk by the Dutch Food and Goods Authority (NVWA).

SolarCity and American Honda Motor Co have announced a partnership aimed at making solar power more affordable to customers in the US by providing a cleaner source of electricity at a lower cost than utility-supplied power.

JA Solar has raised its shipment guidance for the fourth quarter and full-year 2012.

Chinese solar manufacturer Phono Solar and Symbior Energy, a Hong Kong-based renewable energy company, have signed a strategic cooperation to jointly develop a 40MW solar project in Thailand.

PV module and wafer manufacturer ReneSola has announced that, since November 2011, over 100MW of its PV modules have been distributed, installed and connected to the grid in Greece.

The Spanish government has published retroactive feed-in tariffs for projects installed between 2009 and 2011.