News in Brief: Bill Clinton opens Westchester's largest solar array – a 2.7MW facility at Swiss RE's US headquarters; Nexamp completes a 700kW community solar facility in Massachusetts, Michigan introduces a bill to up its RPS and Solaria deploys its architectural solar products at Cornell Tech's campus in New York.
Solar module technology provider Solaria and CleanFund Commercial PACE Capital – the leading Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financier – have announced a partnership on building-integrated solar (BIPV) known as SolarPACE.
Tesla began taking orders for its solar roof tile products from Wednesday afternoon.
Lancaster, a charter city in northern Los Angeles, has passed an ordinance that requires new-build homes to hit net energy standards by having rooftop arrays or paying a mitigation fee.
Specialist German-based PV module manufacturer Solarion is expanding its c-Si-glass-foil module production to meet parent company, OC3 AG pipeline of commercial and industrial rooftop projects in Turkey.
Furniture retailer IKEA is to improve on its solar PV product range later this year after seeing its sales of sustainability products surge in 2016.
Renewable energy company Welink has announced a joint venture with Your Housing Group – claimed to be valued at £2.5 billion – which could see the development of 25,000 solar-powered homes using BIPV in the UK each year by 2022.
Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member Canadian Solar has started commercial operation of its 24MW solar PV plant in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
Watch Elon Musk unveil the Tesla/SolarCity solar roof at a glitzy launch event.
A 150MW solar PV plant in Southern California has become fully operational, according to independent power producer (IPP) Tenaska.
Indian state-run power firm National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) plans to set up a 600MW solar PV project at the Koyna hydroelectric project in the Satara district of Maharashtra.
Stringent energy efficiency rules for buildings would make it “almost a no-brainer” to integrate PV at time of construction and would “change the whole cost equation”, solar analyst Finlay Colville has said.
A new technical study that is more detailed and extensive than previously achieved, the US Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has significantly increased the potential for US building rooftops to generate electricity from solar PV (photovoltaics) systems.
Flexible CIGS thin-film producer MiaSolé, a subsidiary of struggling Hanergy Thin Film Power Group, is offering its BIPV products in Nordic countries including Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden through a sales agreement with Finnish firm, Virte Solar.
Germany’s Fraunhofer ISE has made a modest, 70-panel installation of new crystalline PV cell and module technologies produced by the institute on the outside of one of its laboratories.
