TerraForm Global clears way for sale of SunEdison India and Uruguay assets
SunEdison yieldco has consented to the third party sale of the bankrupt clean energy developer’s 425 MW Indian solar portfolio and further assets in Uruguay. Firm will receive a portion of the proceeds.
UK switches on nation's largest community-owned solar array
The 636 kW rooftop PV array at the headquarters of Prodrive in Oxfordshire was completed by social enterprise Low Carbon Hub and is the largest such installation in the country.
JA Solar latest Chinese firm to withdraw from EU price undertaking
Solar company becomes latest Tier 1 player to voluntarily remove itself from the European Union’s minimum import price undertaking.
China regulators may cut solar subsidy by 13% in some regions, say reports
The National Development and Reform Commission is mulling a 13% reduction in the tariff of solar PV plants located in China’s least sunny regions, according to Bloomberg.
Video tales from SPI: talking backsheets and 1,500v with Coveme
In the first video of the latest series of pv magazine LIVE reports, Jonathan Gifford discusses 1,500v module production and the U.S. solar market with Coveme.
Bank of America may be interested in bailing out SunEdison
Court documents reveal potential “enthusiastic interest” from the Charlotte, N.C. banking giant to provide money to the cratering solar installer.
Japan mulls introduction of clean energy power exchange
Power exchange solely for renewable energy could deliver boost for solar electricity as more and more Japanese companies seek to ‘green’ their image, whatever the costs.
25 GW of new solar in Europe can steer sustainable EV growth, finds EEA
Study by Germany’s Öko-Institut on behalf of European Environment Agency finds that just 25 GW of Europe-wide solar PV could support the goal of reaching 10% electric vehicle penetration by 2050.
SunPower subsidiary suing SolarCity for IP theft
Case by Cogenra Solar and Khosla Ventures filed in San Francisco yesterday accuses SolarCity and its subsidiary Silevo of misappropriating trade secrets concerning shingling technology. SolarCity refutes case, and alleges trade-secret theft of SunPower employee.
UK could be home to 24 million clean energy prosumers by 2050, says report
Data by the European Renewable Energies Federation forecasts the British energy ‘prosumer’ to grow from one million in 2015 to 24 million as more and more citizens begin to make valuable energy contributions.
