India’s solar power company Azure Power announced the commissioning of four solar power plants in three states. The projects include a 50 MW plant in Andhra Pradesh, two plants of total capacity of 28 MW plant in Punjab and a 10 M... more
The City Council of Santa Monica, California, voted last week to pass a new law requiring rooftop solar systems for all new buildings in the City of Santa Monica – both residential and commercial. The law turned effective the last... more
Phoenix Solar AG announced the financial results for the first quarter of 2016. The Power Plants segment accounted for 88.9% of the consolidated revenues and brought a revenue jump by over 100% annually.
In the first three months ... more
SolarReserve, LLC, a global developer of utility-scale solar power projects with solar thermal energy storage technology, and Shenhua Group Corporation, China’s state-owned enterprise, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (... more
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) has decided to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 80% below 1990 levels, and purchasing electricity generated from solar PV projects is one of its measures. SunPower has started ... more
REC Silicon ASA unveiled the financial results for the first quarter of 2016 along with an announcement of to restart FBR production this year. At full utilization rate, FBR’s cash cost could be reduced to as low as near US$... more
Tainergy, a Taiwanese PV cell maker, has raised funds of NTD 693 million to invest in new production lines in Vietnam. Once the production lines are built, Tainergy’s global capacity will reach 1GW.
Currently, Tainergy’s cell capa... more
SunPower announced the beginning of the construction of six solar power systems, totaling 11.4MWdc, for powering public facilities operated by the County of Santa Clara, California. The systems are expected to become operational b... more
GSSG Solar, LLC announced the financial close and ground-breaking of its initial mega-solar project in Japan. The 47 MW solar project will be built in the Nagano Prefecture of Japan and will sell power to Chubu Electric Power Comp... more
Standard Solar has completed the installation of a 1MWdc rooftop solar array at Western Branch High School in Chesapeake, Virginia, marking the largest rooftop PV project in the state.
Dominion Virginia Power, a subsidiary ... more
