Thin film silicon solar research project – called PEPPER and led by Oerlikon Solar – has received a €9.4 million grant under the Framework Programme for Research of the European Union, coordinated by the DG Energy of the European Commission.

First Reserve Corporation has entered into a €276 million project financing facilities agreement for the Rovigo photovoltaics (PV) plant in Northeast Italy.

Norway-based Renewable Energy Corporation (REC) has announced its €1.3 billion green field, integrated solar wafer, cell and module production facility in Singapore will reach full nameplate capacity towards year end.

Swiss-based Oerlikon Solar is looking to garner a significant share in the nascent Indian solar market, according to the country’s Economic Times.?

U.S.-based Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) board has approved a COEE (Centers of Energy Excellence) designation and USD$6 million in funding to establish the Solar Valley Research Enterprise (SVRE).

Singaporean Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong has told delegates that Singapore is not ready to embrace solar energy on a significant scale.

A new study has concluded that Germany’s power grids are “well prepared” to handle the future expansion of photovoltaics (PV) generation to the planned 52 gigawatts by 2020, the level stipulated by the country’s government in its National Action Plan for Renewable Energy.

The Czech lower house approved a bill on Friday, which cuts most of the country’s generous support for photovoltaics (PV) power plants newly built as of next March, reports Reuters.

German company, PVflex Solar GmbH has said that, thanks to flexible lamination, CIGS solar cells now have the ability to both realize their potential as the most efficient thin film technology and to dominate the building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) market in the future.

Germany-based Solarion AG and Taiwanese company Walsin Lihwa have signed a €60 million investment cooperation agreement to produce Copper-Indium-Gallium-Diselenide (CIGS) thin film solar cells.