Struggling flexible CIGS thin-film producer Ascent Solar Technologies has shipped a US$300,000 ‘Ultralight’ PV laminate order to a European airship manufacturer that is just short of being half the company’s annual revenue in 2017, which declined over 63% in 2017.
Leading ‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member JinkoSolar has said that it was named Energy Yield Simulation Winner - Polycrystalline Group at the 4th ‘All Quality Matters’ Solar Congress, recently hosted by TÜV Rhineland in Wuxi, China.
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) will acquire a 396MW portfolio of six operational wind and solar power projects in Canada from Florida-headquartered NextEra Energy Partners for US$741 million.
South African court rejects bid to block US$4.7 billion renewable energy deals, Canadian Solar acquires a 97.6MW solar project in Argentina, Nigerian Renewables association decries solar import duty.
Inline solar cell measurement equipment specialist Aurora Solar Technologies (AST) has secured a new Collaborative Research Agreement (CRA) with the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS), which includes the previous work planned on heterojunction (HJ) cells but also creates opportunities in the growing R&D market for solar cell design and qualification.
City council members from Jacksonville, Florida have unanimously approved close to US$3.4 million in financial incentives for JinkoSolar to establish a PV panel manufacturing facility in West Jacksonville, per the Jacksonville Daily Record.
PV materials specialist DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions is collaborating with China-based wind turbine manufacturer, Envision using its Energy IoT platform, EnOS for analytical investigations into PV module degradation and failures, across a number of real world field studies.
German-based monocrystalline PERC (Passivated Emitter Rear Cell) PV module manufacturer SolarWorld Industries has filed for bankruptcy a second time in less than a year.
