Americas

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.

A new 50MW solar panel factory is to be set up in Uruguay.

Kam Mofid has stepped aside as CEO of Real Goods Solar (RGS) with the company’s residential solar chief, Dennis Lacey, named as his successor.

Analysts are split on Jigar Shah’s prediction that the US will install more solar power capacity than anyone else in 2016.

According to a new report from GTM Research, the US is expected to add 180MW of solar carports in 2014, setting the stage for another record year for the growing market.