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 has been in financial trouble for years, but has provided little information as to why President & CEO Xingxue Tong is departing.

Citing growing demand, Solargiga plans to double module production through a joint venture with Motech in China.

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 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 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 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’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.

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.

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.