Leading PV manufacturing equipment supplier Meyer Burger Technology has made some major made changes to its senior management and plans for new Board directors, led by the stepping down of CEO for 14 years, Peter Pauli.
Sweden announces effective abolition of its solar tax, Etrion and Hitatchi High-Technologies partner on a 13.2MW project in Japan, Wynnertech supplies 20MW of inverters to a project in Iran, and Enel North America and GE Energy enter a JV.
GCL-SI, a subsidiary of GCL, is to develop a 1GW solar PV plant at the former contaminated nuclear site in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Construction is expected to start in 2017.
Four European countries have signed a joint agreement to establish a roadmap for exchanging electricity from renewable sources between Morocco and Europe.
Specialist PV manufacturing equipment supplier Amtech Systems reported Solar segment sales of US$22.6 million in its fiscal fourth quarter of 2016, resulting in full-year preliminary Solar segment sales of US$60.9 million, up from US$51.8 million in 2015.
‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member JA Solar reported lower third quarter total shipments as the slowdown in the domestic China market hit. As a result full year shipment guidance was also lowered.
Solar developers in Ireland have been told not to expect the first auction in a new government support scheme for large scale projects until early 2018 in the latest update from the Irish Solar Energy Association (ISEA).
JinkoSolar, JA Solar, Risen Energy, Wuxi Suntech and Sumec (Phono Solar) have been withdrawn from the EU’s Minimum Import Price (MIP) undertaking by the European Commission.
French oil company Total S.A plans to install solar panels from subsidiary, SunPower on 5,000 of its global service stations, equating to around 200MW on solar capacity.
