A 145MW solar project located in Neuhardenberg, Germany, and owned by a number of unnamed financial institutions and investors has been completed and is set to connect to the grid on 8 March, 2013.
PV module and wafer manufacturer ReneSola has announced that, since November 2011, over 100MW of its PV modules have been distributed, installed and connected to the grid in Greece.
The imposition of European Commission tariffs of up to 60% against Chinese manufacturers could lead to 242,000 job losses in Europe during the first year, new research claims.
Diehl Controls, a subgroup of Germany's Diehl Group, has sold its photovoltaics business unit to mutares Solar, a subsidiary of Munichs investment company mutares.
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.
Spain’s National Energy Commission (CNE) has announced that electricity generated by solar PV accounted for 1.7% of the country’s energy demand in December 2012.
KiloWattsol, an independent French technical advisor for renewable energy, has introduced a new service whereby it provides PV system owners in Germany, France and Spain with a new monthly solar irradiation report on their PV installation.
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.
