White House holds National Community Solar Summit
68 state and local governments and organizations have now made pledges to increase access to community solar under a national partnership, including industry leader Clean Energy Collective.
LDK president & CEO resigns
LDK has been in financial trouble for years, but has provided little information as to why President & CEO Xingxue Tong is departing.
Solargiga, Motech to put 600 MW of new module capacity online in 2016
Citing growing demand, Solargiga plans to double module production through a joint venture with Motech in China.
Neo Solar Power to expand PV manufacturing to Southeast Asia
Buried in Taiwanese PV maker NSP’s Q3 results is a statement that the company is moving production capacity to an un-named Southeast Asian nation.
Sunpower introduces new PV module design, offers 2016 guidance
Sunpower has introduced a new PV module series based upon a novel interconnection technology, as well as warning of a fall in revenues and a loss in 2016 as it plows more projects into its yieldco.
Mississippi and Alabama approve utility-scale solar projects
Mississippi has approved 105 MW of utility-scale PV as the latest state in the U.S. Deep South to do so, and Alabama has given the go-ahead for another 21 MW.
SunEdison project business booms amid a changing course
SunEdison reported a very strong quarter in its project business with far more solar and wind projects under construction than ever before at 2.9 GW, as the company shifts strategy.
IEA talks Energy Transition, but still low-balls future growth of wind and solar
IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2015 acknowledges the increasing importance of non-hydro renewable energy, but retains unrealistically pessimistic estimates of cost reduction and future market growth.
Trina sets a new world record of 21.25% efficiency with multicrystalline silicon
This new world record for a multi c-Si cell beats Trina’s previous record of 20.78%. Trina says that the processes used can be easily integrated into mass production.
New York leads coalition of U.S. states in legal defense of Clean Power Plan
While the Clean Power Plan has been under attack in red states, a new coalition of some of the larger states and cities in the nation has thrown down the gauntlet.
