Americas

Falling technology costs and scalability make solar highly suitable for the South American market, according to PV materials manufacturer DuPont.

US residential solar installer and leasing company Vivint Solar is preparing to make an initial public offering (IPO) of common stock, having made a filing with the US Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC).

Suntech is targeting the South American markets and expects Brazil and Mexico to follow Chile’s lead on utility-scale solar.

Suniva will offer leases and PPAs to community groups through the partnership with TCC.

The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, has launched the NY-Sun Initiative, a plan to consolidate the state’s existing solar incentive programmes into a single support scheme, aimed at adding 3GW of solar generation capacity by 2023.

Major PVEP, SunEdison has secured funds from Barclays and Citi banks totalling US$160 million to be used for distributed generation (DG) projects in the US.

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced the recall of 1.5 million modules in the US and Canada.

New firm, S4 Solar do Brasil has said it has teamed with equipment suppliers, Meyer Burger, Confirmware and Jinchen Machinery Co to provide a 100MW automated c-Si PV module assembly plant at a cost of around R$30 million (US$13.2 million).

Any trade settlement should require Chinese modules imported to the US to be physically traceable, according to a lawyer representing SolarWorld in the US trade case.

Global manufacturer, Jinko Solar is to supply 40MW of its modules to a project in Chile.