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.

China Trends Holdings Limited has said it is looking to develop one million solar electric cars, along with China Innovation Investment Limited and China Oriental Numerical Control Company Limited.

CNPV Solar Power SA has announced it is to supply Germany-based AE Photonics with 300 megawatts peak (MWp) of photovoltaics (PV) modules from 2011 to 2013.

SunPower Corp. has signed an agreement with Iberdrola Renewables to design and build a 30-megawatt photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Colorado, the U.S.

According to a new report, Sunbelt countries – those located within +/- 35° latitude around the equator – constitute an “immense” opportunity for photovoltaics (PV) to become mainstream by 2020; by 2030 they could develop into a “major” electricity source.

CNPV Solar Power SA and Czech-based Stand-by Europe have entered into an extended long-term strategic partnership agreement.