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There have been reports this morning of a fire at Jinko Solar’s wafer production facility in Jianxi, China. JinkoSolar has estimated damages at between $80,000 and $160,000.

In Germany, the debate is still on as to how to deal with large PV systems during the solar eclipse on Friday. Italian transmission grid operator Terna has made the decision to switch off large-scale PV plants for an entire 24-hour period. It appears unlikely that Germany will do the same.

Signals from the Australian Federal Government appear to indicate that rooftop solar will remain free from subsidy cuts. Program to trial solar plus storage at new housing development announced.

Users on Chinese micro blogging site Weibo have raised questions about JinkoSolar’s fire prevention measures at its Jianxi fab. Informal reports indicate a tower that is a part of the Jinko facilities appears totally destroyed.

United States senators on Tuesday received testimony from representatives of the electric power industry, energy regulators and national laboratories on the state of innovation related to the grid.

West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Thursday approved a bill to rewrite net energy metering rules for on-site distributed solar generation in the state after he vetoed virtually the same proposal two weeks earlier.

pv magazine’s weekly round-up examines the latest news from the globla off-grid sector.

The DOEN Foundation and Bamboo Finance will focus on off-grid projects in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Norwegian solar power producer is currently developing a 50 MW PV project in the country, where the government is looking to install 2.3 GW of solar power in the next two years.

The Jordanian government introduced net-metering regulations in 2012 that allow PV owners to sell solar power at a rate of nearly $0.18 per kilowatt hour. The country’s mosques are expected to see huge savings and even solar revenues from the project.