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WTO dispute strains the limits of friendship and fair trade

Ontario Lily Lake Solar Farm photovoltaics

In what can only be described as a "Bizarro World" scenario, even as Canada continued to take the heat last week for the domestic content requirement in Ontario’s feed-in tariff (FIT.2) scheme, legislators in Washington, DC,...


China 'caught red-handed' on US solar anti-dumping charges

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The verdict is in and China has been found guilty as charged – or more accurately, liable for undercharging on sales of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and panels in the U.S. market.


SNEC: Big equipment on show

Shanghai China

Lively business was done today, the first day of 6th-annual SNEC PV Power Expo in Shanghai, with a more professional trade show and a strong presence from equipment suppliers greeting attendees.


Solar Millennium liquidator confident of investor payout

Solar Millennium solar thermal

Solar Millennium AG’s liquidator, Volker Böhm is confident that those who invested in the company will receive compensation. However, the amount repaid will depend on whether yet to be completed projects can be sold.


China’s BYD targets 5 GW PV module capacity; mass energy storage production

BYD China solar photovoltaic facility Shanghai

Photovoltaic product, battery and vehicle manufacturer, BYD, has ambitious plans. In addition to reaching five GW of module capacity by 2016 and switching to full automation in a few weeks, it intends to start producing solar...


German Environment Ministry seeks solar subsidy compromise

SolarWorld production

Additional funding for photovoltaics research and development should move the German states to a "yes" regarding the country’s EEG, or renewable energy law. Saxony-Anhalt’s Minister President believes an agreement on Germany’s...


German Bundesrat calls for PV subsidy mediation committee

German Bundesrat Outside of Building

Germany’s Bundesrat wants to revise the country’s renewable energy law (EEG) for photovoltaics. A majority of Bundesrat representatives, therefore, voted for the invocation of a mediation committee with the Federal Parliament.


Chinese PV company to acquire 30 percent of Conergy

Conergy building night

According to reports, 30 percent of Hamburg-based Conergy AG will be acquired by a Chinese photovoltaic company. Conergy would not confirm the news.


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