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Samsung Buys BYD’s 4% Shares for $500 Million

published: 2016-07-22 16:31
China’s booming electric vehicle (EV) market attracted eager foreign investors. Samsung Electronics’ China branch was said to buy news shares of China’s largest EV manufacturer BYD for RMB 3 billion (around US $500 million)...  more

The Sun Shines to Keep Uyuni Salt Flats Clean

published: 2016-07-22 15:23
Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni are the world's largest salt flats. To keep the salt flats clean, Solar Frontier supplied 40 solar panels for a solar energy system to Projecto YOSI, an organization devoting to promoting sustain...  more

SPI Energy Connects 2.4MW PV Power Plant to Japan’s Grid

published: 2016-07-21 16:37
SPI Solar Japan G.K. (SPI Japan), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SPI Energy, a global provider of PV solutions, has completed the 2.4MW Nishiura power plant in Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture and connected it to the grid. The distributed...  more

Alterra Power Agrees to Acquire 20MW Solar Portfolio

published: 2016-07-21 16:33
Alterra Power is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement with Inovateus Solar LLC to acquire an 80% ownership interest in a two-project 20MWdc portfolio of solar farms in the Midwestern United States. Both projects ar...  more

Meyer Burger Wins New Order from China

published: 2016-07-20 18:49
Semiconductor equipment expert Meyer Burger awarded a new MAiA 2.1 equipment order from an existing, tier-one Chinese customer. The order, which is worth around CHF 18 million, involves in equipment delivery and installation and c...  more