The largest US-based PV installer, SolarCity has secured US$200 million in new financing from Credit Suisse to continue the rapid roll-out of the company’s ‘MyPower’ financing vehicle. This takes SolarCity’s financing in 2015 to around US$995 million.
PV developer Innovative Solar Systems (ISS) has achieved all necessary approvals and is cleared to begin construction on a 80MW solar farm in North Carolina.
Chinese module manufacturer Trina Solar has complained to the US Department of Commerce for heavily penalising its participation in a disability work programme backed by the Beijing government.
The latest contender to challenge for the title of world’s largest merchant PV plant will be an 80MW project in the Antifagasto region of Chile to be built by Greenwood Energy.
Sunrun has closed a financing deal with Investec worth US$195 million, meaning that over half a billion dollars of investment has gone into the US residential solar sector across just two deals this week.
Belief that a major contribution from solar to energy needs in the US is no longer a distant prospect appears to be hardening among Americans, according to a poll.
Internet giant Google has been confirmed as one of two investors in a 104MW PV power plant being developed and built by Norwegian firm Scatec Solar in Utah.
Potentially reduced anti-dumping tariffs in the US could strengthen Chinese firms’ position at the negotiating table in “ongoing” talks to settle the latest dispute, according to Roth Capital.
California governor, Jerry Brown, has made an ambitious pledge for the state to be 50% powered by renewable energy within 15 years, in a speech given on Monday as he was sworn into office for a record fourth term.
Renewable energy company First Wind announced that the Idaho Public Utilities Commission has approved sale agreements with five proposed First Wind PV projects and the Idaho Power Company.
