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Taiwanese manufacturer TSMC Solar has recorded a champion module efficiency of 15.7%. The result shows TSMC’s rapid efficiency progress, using CIGS technology that it licensed from Silicon Valley firm Stion.

Kyocera has signed a major contract to supply and construct 30 MW of solar installations throughout Japan.

Martifer Solar has launched its Energy Portal today, allowing power plant owners to monitor in real time their photovoltaic power plants. The portal integrates data from 250 Martifer plants worldwide.

Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary MidAmerican Energy Holdings has issued $700 million in series A senior secured notes, to help finance its 579 MW Antelope Valley Solar Projects (AVSP). The notes will be due in 2035.

Only two weeks after termination of its insolvency proceedings Centrotherm has lost a large order from Algeria. Thus a project worth millions has escaped the manufacturer of photovoltaic systems and equipment.

Conergy, the German-based solar solution and service provider, announces today that it has realized a solar park for the investor UEM, the local grid operator and energy provider. The total installed capacity of the project is 4.5 MW, covering an area of 9.5 hectares.

Chinese solar manufacturer Yingli has announced a deal to develop photovoltaic power plants in Yunnan province of Southern China, with a combined capacity of 3 GW.

More than five times the initial quota of larger photovoltaic projects to be developed under Turkey’s FIT program has been submitted to the relevant regulatory authority. No foreign developers have been listed as applicants to be considered in the initial round.

Chinese electronics group STGCON has agreed to take over insolvent German PV module manufacturer Asola Solarpower GmbH.

Two high schools in the U.S. state of New Mexico will soon be running on solar power thanks to German PV group Conergy, which is installing PV plants with a combined output of 1.2 MW at the school campuses that will cover 80% of their total annual energy needs.