Americas

China has scored the highest on Ernst & Young’s country attractiveness indices (CAI) index for February 2013.

House builders in Texas will be obliged to offer customers the option of installing a solar system in new build homes under proposed legislation.

The 5MW Kalaeloa Renewable Energy Park in Hawaii is now ready to break ground after receiving environmental assessment approval in early January.

Chilean PV project developer E-CL is seeking approval for its proposed 40MW PV plant in the Arica and Parinacota region in northern Chile and has put forward its plans to the Chilean environmental authority Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental (SEA).

On 11 February 2013, Japan and the European Union filed a cross appeal in the dispute against Ontario's domestic content feed-in tariff programme with the World Trade Organization (WTO).

The installation price of residential PV systems in Germany is lower than the price in the US, according to the results of a survey conducted by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Californian utility company Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) has accused solar net metering users of increasing energy rates for its customers.

The third-party financing business model is dominating the booming US residential market, according to the latest report from GTM Research.

Quanta Services has announced its subsidiary Quanta Power Generation has been awarded an EPC contract by Con Edison Development (CED) to develop two 20MW PV facilities.

Canada has appealed against a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling that a local content policy within the province of Ontario’s feed-in tariff (FiT) violates global trade rules.