President Barack Obama yesterday put forward a budget that would see a 40% increase in clean energy funding, despite sweeping spending cuts due to the sequester.
Overall, Obama's fiscal year budget 2014 provides $28.4 billion in ... more
Australia's exports of gas will push up domestic prices, says New Energy Finances (BNEF). Wind energy is already cheaper than new gas for electricity generation - and solar isn't far behind.
In February, Bloomberg's Sydney a... more
Duke Energy Renewables, a commercial business unit of Duke Energy, today announced it has acquired two commercial solar power projects near Twentynine Palms, Calif., from project developer SolarWorld, the largest U.S. solar manufa... more
Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) is outlining plans to construct a $100m solar PV plant in the Midlands Province of the country.
The electricity generated from the 100MW plant in Zvishavane would be fed into the national transmission... more
Photovolt Development Partners GmbH, a German developer of solar projects, plans to build a 400-megawatt plant on an island in southwestern Japan.
The company will develop the plant for TeraSol G.K. on Ukujima in Nagasaki prefect... more
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd.(NYSE: STP) ("Suntech Holdings" or the "Company") announced that Suntech Power International Ltd. ("SPI"), the Company's principal operating subsidiary in Europe, has been granted a provisional mora... more
First Solar, Inc.(Nasdaq: FSLR) announced it is acquiring TetraSun, a solar photovoltaic (PV) technology startup which has developed a break-through cell architecture capable of conversion efficiencies exceeding 21 percent with ... more
NorthLight Power, a joint venture 60 percent owned by Renewable Energy Corporation ASA(REC) and 40 percent by Summit Power Group, LLC, announced the sale of the 60 MWAC North Star project in Fresno County, California to First Sola... more
Martifer Solar, a subsidiary of Martifer SGPS, developed a cluster of utility scale photovoltaic plants totaling 28.1 MWp in the United Kingdom. This is one of the largest clusters of utility scale solar PV plants ever built simul... more
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd.(NYSE: STP) ("Suntech" or the "Company"), one of the world's largest producers of solar panels, announced that it has been notified by the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") that the Company did n... more
