Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) announced the new PV feed-in tariff (FiT) in early March. The commercial PV FiT will be revised downward to 32 Yen and residential PV FiT to 37 Yen.
On March 7th, METI announc... more
Hanwha Q CELLS continues to expand in the United Kingdom. The PV specialist supplies more than 40,000 of its Q CELLS Q.Pro-G3 modules for a 10 MW solar power plant in Somerset, UK. The purpose of the plant is to export solar elect... more
Powerway PV SA and Sungrow will be opening a manufacturing facility in COEGA, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Once finished, the plant will be the largest of its kind outside China.
Powerway PV SA is a part of Powerway Renewable Ene... more
ReneSola Ltd. said it will deliver 66 Replus string inverters and 100 Micro Replus micro inverters to Enlightened Solar, as part of a larger sale of ReneSola solar products.
Enlightened Solar will install the ReneSola inverters an... more
Hanwha SolarOne Co., Ltd., a vertically integrated manufacturer of silicon ingots, wafers and PV cells and modules in China, reported its financial results for 4Q13 and full year ended December 31, 2013. The company hosted a confe... more
The recently updated IDTechEx report Energy Harvesting/Regeneration for Electric Vehicles Land, Water & Air 2014-2024 finds that 90% of heavy industrial electric vehicles will use regenerative braking by 2024 to charge tractio... more
Toshiba Corporation has delivered battery energy storage systems integrating the company’s SCiB™, an innovative lithium-ion secondary battery to Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc., for a demonstration project to expand introduction o... more
Delta Group’s board of directors has decided to build the Delta Taoyuan Plant V in northern Taiwan. The building cost is estimated TW $1.1 billion and it is planned to be completely built next year. Supercapacitors and solar inver... more
Bosch Solar Energy, an energy subsidiary of Bosch, announced that it has consummated all necessary purchasing processes and sold its cell and module production in Arnstadt to SolarWorld. Besides, Bosch is also negotiating to sell ... more
Soitec, a generator and manufacturer of semiconductor materials for energy and electronics, announced that the Department of Energy in South Africa has granted its preliminary approval to a refinancing scheme for Soitec's equity p... more
