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East Africa's First Utility-scale Solar Plant Constructed in Rwanda

published: 2015-02-04 18:22

Gigawatt Global, an American-owned Dutch company, has succeeded in financing, constructing and interconnecting a $23.7 million solar energy plant in Rwanda only 12 months after the official signing of the Power Purchase Agreement... more

Sharp Corporation Sells Recurrent Energy to Canadian Solar for $265 Million

published: 2015-02-04 17:59

Canadian Solar Inc., one of the world's most important solar power companies, announced on February 2nd that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Sharp Corporation to acquire Recurrent Energy, LLC, a major North America... more

Apple Invests $2 Billion in Failed GTAT Sapphire Plant Makeover Project

published: 2015-02-04 17:36

Apple is investing $2 billion into GTAT’s failed sapphire plant and will serve it as Apple’s new data center facility. Construction on the new data center is expected to start by late 2016. In the meantime, the facility still hold... more

SolarWorld AG's Shipment in 2014 Considerably Exceed its Forecast

published: 2015-02-04 17:23

SolarWorld boosted groupwide shipments of solar modules and kits in fiscal year 2014 by 55 percent to 849 (2013: 548) MW. Thus, the company considerably exceeded its forecast to raise groupwide shipments by at least 40 percent in ... more

American Geophysical Union CEO Advocates Importance of Obama’s Budget Proposal

published: 2015-02-04 17:18

This Monday, President Obama proposed permanently extending the Investment tax credit (ITC) for solar projects and the production tax credit (PTC) for wind projects in his new budget. As Obama’s proposal involves funding for encou... more

SunEdison Commissions 7.72 MW Solar System For Brakes India

published: 2015-02-04 16:55

SunEdison and Brakes India Limited (BIL), a leading manufacturer of Automotive and Non-Automotive Braking Systems and Ferrous Castings in India, have installed a solar power plant that will generate 7.72 MW of electricity at Brake... more

Former First Wind CEO Paul Gaynor to Take Over SunEdison’s Wind Business

published: 2015-02-04 16:43

SunEdison today announced that Paul Gaynor, who was previously the Chief Executive Officer of First Wind, has been appointed Executive Vice President of SunEdison responsible for the North America Utility and Global Wind business ... more

Enphase Energy Upgrades its Smart Microinverters for PV Systems in Hawaii

published: 2015-02-04 16:42

Enphase Energy has successfully upgraded the operating behavior of approximately 800,000 of its smart microinverters installed in Hawaii, better integrating the PV systems into Hawaii's changing island grids. Enphase, Hawaiian... more

UK Solar Capacity Doubled in 2014

published: 2015-02-03 17:06

The United Kingdom reached a new milestone of solar generation in 2014 by adding almost 5GW of new installations. The U.K.’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) reported that the nation’s rapid surge from 2.8GW at the e... more

Obama Proposes Extending Investment Tax Credit for Solar Projects Permanently

published: 2015-02-03 15:53

With a hope to reduce carbon emission faster as well as to increase deployment of renewable energy, President Obama proposes to extend the nation’s investment tax credit (ITC) for solar projects in his fiscal year 2016 budg... more

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