Trina Solar has withdrawn from the EU-China price undertaking saying that it is no longer a fair agreement. It will instead serve the EU from facilities outside of China.
India-based renewable energy firms Suzlon Energy and Axis Energy Group have signed a provisional agreement with the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to develop up to 4GW of solar, wind and hybrid renewable energy projects.
Nanjing GCL New Energy — a subsidiary of GNE — has signed off on a 100MW module supply agreement with CNI Energy for RMB (US$61 million). The modules will be provided for Nanjing’s GCL New Energy’s 100MW PV project in Funan County, Anhui Province.
Trina Solar has signed off on a supply deal with Toyo Engineering to provide 96.2MW of solar modules to the Hosoe Mega Solar Project, which is currently being developed by Energy K.K. and is expected to be the largest solar plant in Kyushu, Japan.
Concrete action in the Indian solar sector this year has countered scepticism over the 266GW of clean energy pledges made earlier this year, according to a new report.
The Clean Energy Council (CEC), a body representing the renewables industry in Australia, has written to federal and state government ministers citing various barriers to the progress of clean energy in the country.
Solar Frontier has broken a conversion efficiency record for CIS thin-film solar cells that has stood for over a year, achieving 22.3% efficiency on a 0.5cm² PV cell.
