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Wacker will continue to export duty-free polysilicon to China under a special arrangement with the nation’s government.

IKEA starts selling home PV systems; First Solar reports solid year-to-year growth in Q1; Solar Impulse returns to the skies. Good news is not boring in the solar world.

An attempt to take the issue of compensation for rooftop solar to Arizona voters has been called off, and now SolarCity and Arizona Public Service will enter negotiations over the future of net metering.

TerniEnergia announced that it has completed the first of its two “giant” PV projects in South Africa.

Progress on three solar schemes and projects in India, which have a potential combined capacity of 1050 MW, including 500 MW of rooftop PV being tendered by SECI, a piece of land being assigned for a 200 MW project in Rajasthan, and SkyPower agreeing EPC and O&M contracts with Sterling and Wilson for 350 MW of PV projects.

Residential solar lending platform Mosaic will receive the funding for a new USD200 million facility from DZ BANK and NY Green Bank. The facility will help the company achieve its ambitious future targets for providing solar financing to homeowners.

Community solar project in Halfmoon, New York will allow more than 100 local residents to participate in solar energy generation, even if they can’t have their own private PV systems.

Mississippi Power and Silicon Ranch Corporation broke ground on the largest solar farm in the state of Mississippi.

An extensive study of solar farms in the UK has found that the existence of the solar panels can improve biodiversity and wildlife abundance, especially when combined with measured land management.

The 22nd International Energy & Environment Fair and Conference, held just weeks after Solarex, delivered another opportunity for Turkey to smooth the edges of its expanding solar sector.