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The newly-constituted CPIA will pursue a ‘free and fair trade environment for Chinese PV’. The head of Trina Solar has been elected to lead the organization for five years.

India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy hopes to secure permission next week for the $365 million project, which will be located near the Purulia Pumping Storage Project.

The Canadian renewable energy company plans to construct a 20 MW solar plant in the African nation, having signed an investment support agreement with its government.

During the visit of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to the UK to meet British Prime Minister David Cameron, China’s ZNShine Solar secured a $680 million deal with UK’s MAP Environmental.

While the U.K.’s main energy companies are accused of profiteering, solar has assumed a larger role in the country’s energy landscape despite impending subsidy cuts.

Having outpaced the overall U.S. PV market for the first time, growth in the residential solar sector is being spurred by the solar leasing model, with 2014 likely to be the pinnacle. Solar loans will drive direct ownership from 2015 onwards.

The Australian solar industry has welcomed the announcement today by businessman turned politician Clive Palmer that he will support the Renewable Energy Target (RET). The votes of Mr Palmer’s political party to maintain the RET, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and the Climate Change Commission is likely to reinvigorate the large scale PV sector and maintain support for residential and commercial PV.

As new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pursues the PV fast lane, the country’s power ministry calls upon the Ministry of Finance to reverse its decision to impose dumping duties on US and Asian suppliers.

The UK’s Solar Trade Association (STA) believes that over last weekend solar PV broke electricity production records in the country. With Midsummer occurring over the weekend, on Saturday, the STA estimates that solar’s production contribution in the country peaked at 7.8% of daytime electricity.

The peak body representing Germany’s renewable energy industry, the Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energie (BEE), has slammed the “reboot” of the EEG – the legislation underpinning renewable energy development in the country. The BEE says that mandatory direct marketing of renewable energy, or through sales on the wholesale market or to brokers, will significantly increase the costs imposed on the sector.