The Spanish solar company installed the fixed structures at the Alto Cielo solar park in Uruguay, which is one of the standout PV projects in the country, and further enhances Grupo Clavijo’s reach in Latin America.

Swiss startup Insolight is taking the initiative of concentrating sunlight onto space-age solar cells to make such technology affordable for residential PV customers, resulting in reduced costs for electricity consumption.

The German PV production equipment supplier has received an announcement that it has finally been sent prepayment for the EUR110 million of CIGS equipment from China National Building Materials (CNBM).

SMA’s Sunny Home Manager has added the prestigious brands of Bosch and Siemens to the list of appliances that it can easily integrate, adding to its ability to optimize power usage from a residential solar system and to continue costs electricity costs.

The French energy minister confirmed this week that France will begin a series of tenders for 1.35 GW of new rooftop PV to be conducted over the next three years, which can be added to the 3 GW of utility-scale solar PV that will be auctioned during a separate series of tenders over the same time period.

Chinese PV manufacturer JinkoSolar has announced its withdrawal from the EU price undertaking, adding pressure on the EU to revise or abolish the scheme, in the face of disapproval from the European solar market and a number of high-profile Chinese companies leaving the agreement.

Nina Skorupska, Chief Executive for the U.K.’s largest renewable energy trade association REA, has been appointed to the new, more diverse, board of governors for Transport for London (TfL), rousing hopes that carbon-free energy will play a bigger part in the future of transport within the nation’s capital.

Egypt’s Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy announced an updated phase for its feed-in tariff (FIT) scheme, putting an end to the dispute over the location of the arbitration seat, but also dramatically reducing the FIT rate for PV projects to $8.4 cents and 7.8 cents/kWh, putting into question the viability of the previously proposed projects.

The Chinese company has signed the agreement with local wholesale distributor of solar products DM Solar, for the company’s popular modules that will be mainly used for small and medium-scale projects, as Canadian Solar raises its profile in the Latin American country.

U.S. solar silicon manufacturer Silicor Materials is just USD150 million away from completing financing for the company’s first commercial-scale site to produce solar silicon using its unique production process.