Americas

Adept Technology, which makes robotics equipment for the solar and other markets, has appointed Michael Schradle as its new Chief Financial Officer.

A new “clean energy jobs fund” is to be created in California using money from a closed loophole that had allowed companies to avoid paying millions of dollars of tax in the state.

Solar power products and services provider SPG Solar has announced it will be relocating its corporate headquarters to Petaluma, California, effective January 1, 2013.

Big name investors contributed US$37.3 million in LightSail Energy’s, an energy storage technology company, Series D funding round.

A report conducted by Clean Power Research for the Mid-Atlantic Solar Energy Industries Association (MSEIA) and the Pennsylvania Solar Energy Industries Association (PASEIA) notes that New Jersey and Pennsylvania deliver cost friendly solar power to consumers.

Solar Planet Power, PV installers based in Ohio, US, has commissioned several ground-mounted and rooftop PV projects at elementary and high schools located in West Jefferson and Blacklick, Ohio.

Ambassador Energy’s Southern California sales team is adding personnel in response to solar repayment programs such as property assessed clean energy (PACE) financing.

The first phase of Catalina Solar, EDF Renewable Energy’s 143MWp solar plant in Kern County, California, is to begin operation in December.

Utility-scale PV inverter specialist Advanced Energy Industries (AE) has reported record sales of US$60.7 million in Q3 2012, fuelled by growing demand from the North American large-scale commercial and utility markets.

Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has joined local and company representatives to inaugurate 44MW of Peruvian PV plants.