India-based IndoSolar Limited has announced it is to add a new 100-megawatt (MW) production line to its 300,000 square foot solar cell facility – located around 55km from Delhi airport, in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state – after raising INR 3.5 billion in public financing.

LDK Solar Co., Ltd. has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

centrotherm SiTec GmbH, a subsidiary of Germany-based centrotherm photovoltaics AG, is to supply several multi-crystalline ingot furnaces to an unnamed, “prominent” Chinese company.

In an effort to promote trade and investment in the solar industry between the U.S. and India, the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) has formed a solar task force.

Solimpeks, based in Karatay, Turkey has completed the installation of what it says is England’s largest rooftop hybrid collector system, on a children’s home in surrey, near London.

Henan Sungen Solar Fab Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China-based Anwell Technologies Limited, has secured an agreement with an unnamed “leading” solar panel distributor and developer, to deliver a minimum of 180 megawatts of solar modules within the next three years.

According to a newspaper report, due to greatly reduced demand for thin film silicon modules, U.S. photovoltaics (PV) company Applied Materials is going to concentrate on silicon solar cells in the future.

Roth & Rau Italy S.r.l. has invested €2.5 million in a new production line for ethyl-vinyl-acetate (EVA) foils – used to laminate solar cells when assembling modules so as to protect the cells from environmental influences – in the Italian city of Monza.

Adani Power (AP), part of the Adani Group, is to commission a 40-megawatt (MW) photovoltaics (PV) power plant in the Surendranagar district of Gujarat state, located in western India. When completed, the project is expected to be one of the country’s largest PV projects.

First Solar has issued a statement relating to the use of cadmium telluride (CdTe) in photovoltaics (PV) modules following the Wuppertal Institute’s call for PV to be placed under the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive.