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The new, fully automated facility will produce 60-cell and 72-cell modules and adds another large chunk of manufacturing capacity to the growing Chinese company.

Spain’s Supreme Tribunal has ruled that the Spanish State must compensate PV companies harmed under RD 1/2012 which introduced a suspension of incentives for new renewable energy installations. These will be compensated for expenses in projects that could not benefit from the incentives of RD 1578/2008.

Following on from the installation of a 12 MW PV system at the Kochi airport, India’s Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju asks all of the country’s airports to install solar PV systems.

On Sunday, May 8, renewables reached a record 95 % of German electricity consumption at 11 AM.

The largest distributed solar installer in the U.S. is continuing to grow, but some of the details were bumpy in Q1 due to interruptions in net metering policies in several states.

U.S.-headquartered PV and semiconductor production equipment supplier Amtech has registered increased bookings in Q2 2016, although it has incurred a $1.5 million loss the for the quarter. Solar bookings in Q2 came in at $28 million.

Enel Green Power North America starts construction of its largest solar project in the U.S. The 150 MW facility in Minnesota is expected to be online by the end of the year.

Silver demand for PV applications rose 23% in 2015.

Million-installations-strong and under-three-cents-cheap: this week, solar sets new world records in size and price.

NRG will shift Home Solar to an origination and sales model, while shifting multiple renewable energy businesses around inside the company.