First Solar, SunPower to float joint yieldco
The companies’ new yieldco joint venture, 8point3 Energy Partners, will own and operate a portfolio of selected solar generation assets. The new subsidiary has filed with the SEC for an initial public offering.
SPI Solar's $1.6bn credit line
China-focused developer secures three new lines of credit. Cries of unfair state subsidy support are likely to ring loud again.
Grid opens offering to more low-income households
Non-profit installer has become a channel partner for Clean Power Finance. This week also saw SolarCity expand into its 16th state.
Chinese officials set ambitious and unlikely 100 GW goal
Target was announced by energy official Nur Bekri to parliament. Government aims to rein in coal in favor of natural gas, wind and solar.
NewGen to install 200 MW of solar in Sierra Leone
Power company will break ground on first, 20 MW, plant this year with 180 MW more utility-scale schemes to follow by 2018. Hydro, DG microgrids, thermal and solar lighting will also play a role in electrifying country.
MENA: Adenium Energy Capital, Enerwhere sign $10 million investment deal for mobile solar systems
The two Dubai-based companies are teaming up to deploy Enerwhere’s fleet of mobile solar power systems, which can provide power to construction sites, industrial locations and worker accommodation facilities around the Middle East on a rental or PPA basis.
NVI Energy's Solar4Africa: 'One-stop-shop' funding
It could be posited with reason that the off-grid solar market is still one that is finding its feet, and still in the period that all new industries go through as it tries to make sense of how it can best serve its market. Innovative financing techniques are emerging as the offgrid market matures, in this the first in a series of articles on innovation in the offgrid space.
Vivint Solar quadruples revenue, triples loss in 2014
The Utah-based company, whose net loss attributable to stockholders per share was $0.35, is expanding downstream operations and expects to install 290 to 310 MW this year.
SunEdison acquires Solar Grid Storage
The Pennsylvania-based energy storage and PV company brings its projects, pipeline and personnel to SunEdison, allowing it to now offer battery storage solutions to complement solar and wind projects worldwide.
Canadian Solar reports record-breaking year
The company announced major increases in sales and net profit last year. The recent acquisition of Recurrent Energy, meanwhile, will expand its total project pipeline to 8.5 GW. Some 2.4 GW of late-stage projects represent a revenue opportunity of at least $6 billion over the next two to three years, according to the group.
