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The American energy company has announced carbon goals and an intensified focus on renewable energy and distributed generation at the ground-breaking of its new headquarters in New Jersey.

Mercom Capital’s strong 2015 outlook follows on a dismal 2014, with only 800 MW forecast by year’s end. This optimistic forecast is influenced by a variety of factors, including moves by the Modi administration.

Ex-Im Bank Chairman Hochberg Signs $1 Billion Memorandum of Understanding to Support U.S. Clean Energy Exports to India
Announces the MOU at the India-US Technology Summit in Noida

Mondragon plans to increase the development of new products in the Gorosabel range while offering technical support and repair services to the equipments already installed around the world.

Interview: On Monday the Meyer Burger Group and the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) inaugurated their Swiss-Inno pilot line for heterojunction technology (HJT) in Neuchatel, Switzerland. Christophe Ballif, head of the CSEM’s PV-center, will lead research efforts on the line, representing the culmination of a decade’s research into the technology in the Swiss town. Ballif spoke to pv magazine about the project.

According to the deal, the companies will share market channels and jointly develop products.

Qi Lin, president of Trina’s PV Systems Business Unit, says the Shamsuna project offers “valuable first-hand experience in operating a solar system in a desert environment.”

Britain’s solar power will be cheaper than gas by 2018, according to new industry analysis by the Solar Trade Association.

The countries have signed four letters of intent aimed at cooperating on renewable and nuclear energy and lithium production.

SunEdison says that the US$2.4 billion acquisition will make it the world’s largest renewable energy developer, and will give TerraForm Power 521 MW of additional operating wind and PV plants.