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Germany again topped the news this week after government officials proposed a new tax on renewable energy consumers. In the U.S., meanwhile, solar panels are starting to become standard features in new homes, at least in South Florida.

Marshall Solar and Xcel Energy commenced work on a 62 MW Marshall solar project in Lyon County, Minnesota.

Innovative installers and solar plant designers in particular are welcomed speakers at Intersolar Europe. Visitors eagerly line up for to hear the top presenters. Jong Wan (JW) Lim, managing director and head of EU Sales at Hanwha Q CELLS, explains what an innovation is and why his company got involved with the award, which it is presenting with pv magazine.

With a new factory in China and another one underway in Brazil, JA Solar is growing rapidly on the back of a booming Chinese market.

The 160 MW plant is located in the Antofagasta region of Chile.

The homebuilding company will introduce the PV solar systems as a standard feature in all of its new homes, making it the first company in South Florida to do so.

The two parties signed equipment procurement contracts for the 100 MW factory, which will produce cadmium telluride thin-film modules, during the SNEC tradeshow that is currently taking place in Shanghai.

A survey by EuPD Research discovers that Australian PV providers today primarily install commercial energy storage systems of over 12 kWh.

The world’s largest PV manufacturer Trina Solar saw drops in revenue and profits in Q1 compared with the final quarter of 2015, but the Chinese company put this down to “seasonality” and maintains that it was a good start to the year.

The California-based equipment supplier received an order for two of its ENERGi implant systems for advanced solar cell manufacturing, from an unnamed solar cell manufacturer in China.