Online photovoltaic product exchange platform shows manufacturers across all tiers dropping prices and the €1-per-watt-peak milestone being reached for modules from Asian manufacturers. Although it must be noted that this price was only reached for larger installations and therefore higher order volumes.

The consortium formed by AREVA Solar and CS Energy and Wind Prospect CWP will construct the biggest solar thermal gas hybrid of its kind, with part funding from the Australian Government and the Queensland State Government.

It’s been announced today that Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV), BP Solar and Pacific Hydro will develop the second utility scale solar plant, funded in part by the Australian Government.

The development of a multicrystalline photovoltaic wafer manufacturing facility in Massachusetts will be supported by a Department of Energy loan guarantee. The manufacturing process is hoped to reduce the cost of wafer manufacture by approximately 50 percent.

Solar grade polysilicon triples in demand and prices forecast to remain above $3,000 per ton.

Hamburg-based Conergy is forging on with installations in spite of the recent challenges and setbacks facing the company. Its latest deal is to install a photovoltaic plant in Greneva, located in the northern parts of Greece.

In a fast turnaround, 9REN has delivered two three megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power plants to Helios Srl, installed on the Italian island of Sicily. The system was connected to the national grid just three months after the contract to install was signed.

U.S. solar installer REC Solar has formed partnership with a number of significant consumer brands as photovoltaic expansion in the northeastern states continues.

In the past two days, three large scale photovoltaic and concentrating solar power (CSP) projects have been given conditional loan guarantee approval by the Department of Energy (DOE) under its loan guarantee program, known as Section 1705. The program closes in September.

Japanese solar subsidiary of Dutch Oil giant Shell is supplying the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) on one of Japan’s first major solar plant installations, while putting their recycling systems in place and installing solar systems to keep petrol pumps running in times of disaster.