Europe

In reporting improving sales in the first-half of 2013, Chinese thin-film equipment supplier and module manufacturer, Hanergy expects a ‘wide window of opportunity’ in Europe to gain module sales and market share after the anti-dumping dispute between the EU and China has been resolved.

Renewable energy developer the Juwi Group has secured a €252 million (US$336 million) loan, calling it an “act of faith” in the sector.

Austria will install a record amount of solar PV capacity this year, according to the country’s PV trade group, Photovoltaic Austria.

German environment minister Peter Altmaier has predicted new PV capacity in Germany will fall to around half what it was last year.

Solar operator Edisun Power Europe has delayed the announcement of its half-year results that were due to be released on Wednesday of this week.

The Swiss government is considering massive solar subsidy cuts in a move the country’s PV industry has warned could have “profoundly” damaging effects.

A 5.21MW rooftop solar project built by Switzerland’s largest supermarket chain, Migros-Verteilbetrieb Neuendorf, said to be the country's largest PV plant, is now grid-connected and fully operational.

M+W Americas has bought the US subsidiary of struggling German firm Gehrlicher Solar.

Manufacturer China Sunergy (CSUN) has been awarded 'carbon footprint' certificates by the French engineering firm Solstyce that will allow its customers to enter the tender process for projects in France above the 250kW threshold.

The chief executive of Photon Energy, the PV developer founded in the Czech Republic, has spoken out strongly against the solar levy recently approved in the lower house of the Czech parliament.