Corporations and utilities are already interested in energy storage but must collaborate to advance deployment and lower costs, avoiding some of the past mistakes of the PV industry, according to the heads of one California-based industry group.
A US-based investment hedge fund Appaloosa Management has filed court proceedings to prevent SunEdison’s US-centric yieldco, TerraForm Power, from taking on nearly US$1 billion in debt to acquire Vivint Solar assets from SunEdison, should the deal go through.
Certain "deep-level" defects in silicon solar cells appear to improve their performance, according to research by scientists at the US governments National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
US President Barack Obama delivered his final State of the Union address to Congress Tuesday night in Washington D.C., hitting on a variety of topics including solar in his last annual address to the American public.
Independent investment manager I Squared Capital — through its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund — has acquired Lincoln Clean Energy, a developer, owner and operator of solar and wind assets in North America.
Independent nonprofit solar research and education organization The Solar Foundation (TSF) has released its sixth annual National Solar Jobs Census, highlighting the growing size of the solar workforce in the U.S.
Hilary Clinton has weighed into the escalating fight to save solar in the US state of Nevada in an interview, condemning in particular a move to apply retroactive charges for PV systems.
Chile’s Ministry of National Resources is holding a public tender for 2,896 hectares of land in the region of Arica and Parinacota to be used for renewable energy projects.
