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REC Group has signed solar panel supply agreements totaling 85MW with a major U.S. engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company for utility-scale projects in the United States. The contracts mark the first purchase orde...  more

Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) called a committee to discuss issues regarding new energy in early August. Japan Photovoltaic Energy Association (JPEA) announced that the market of Japanese...  more

Verizon announced to invest nearly $40 million to expand the on-site green energy program and will install 10.2 MW of new solar power systems at eight Verizon network facilities in five states. SunPower will design and inst...  more

3M New Ventures – the corporate venture arm of 3M – announced an equity stake in Toronto-based Smart Energy Instruments (SEI), a move that will further accelerate SEI’s efforts in developing electronic chipsets w...  more

Kyocera’s solar module was ranked as “Performance Leader” in GTM Research’s July 2014 PV Module Reliability Scorecard. The independent test was conducted by PV Evolution Labs and ranked performance of the 15 participating m...  more

SunEdison, a well-performing US-based solar company, is receiving US$160 million of investment from Citigroup Inc. and Barclays Plc for distributed PV generation projects in their mother nation. Bloomberg reports that the tax-equi...  more

BitFury Capital, a seed fund and a subsidiary of BitFury Group, has announced its first investment into a prominent bitcoin wallet provider. The deal is BitFury Capital’s first investment into the Bitcoin ecosystem. “T...  more