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The government parties have come to an agreement on the EEG reform. The policy makes everything more complicated.

A new survey shows that Australians continue to support renewable energy and the mandatory Renewable Energy Target (RET). On the back of the news, two NGO have launched a campaign to pressure the government to maintain the RET – the mechanism under which the country’s deployment of solar largely depends.

Solar crowdfunder Mosaic is encouraging Americans to nominate community buildings on which they would like to see solar installed, on its #PutSolarOnIt national day of action today.

Two American developers have reportedly signed supply deals with non-Chinese manufacturers, just two weeks after CVD decision. A report has predicted a price rise of 14% for Chinese modules in the States.

Michael Liebreich, the founder and Advisory Board Chair at Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) may run to be the next mayor of London. Bookmakers have Liebreich ahead more established politicians.

Proposed cuts to Italy’s PV feed-in tariff program could leave solar investors with significantly less return than orginally guaranteed.

Yingli Green Energy has reported losses of $55 million in the first quarter of 2014 after ending 2013 with a final quarter net loss of $128 million.

California’s SunEdison will partner with Riverstone Holdings LLC on the ownership of Silver Ridge Power, which operates a number of large-scale PV plants in the U.S.

Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute has purchased Wavelabs’ SINUS-220 solar simulator to bolster its PV testing and optimization research.