Spanish supreme court paves way for lawsuits against solar FIT cuts
pv magazine has learned that Spain’s supreme court, the Tribunal Supremo, has invited the country’s Photovoltaic Union (UNEF) to discuss its lawsuit against the recent measures that reduce solar subsidies. A trial date may be announced in due course.
LDK Solar subsidiaries file for bankruptcy protection in US court
The beleaguered Chinese PV giant’s U.S. subsidiaries, LDK Solar Systems, LDK Solar USA and LDK Solar Tech USA, have filed for bankruptcy protection in Delaware.
Altus Power raises $200 million for solar project investment
Altus Power America partnered with four Franklin Square sponsored funds and GSO Capital Partners on its latest solar investment venture. The company is looking to fund commercial and industrial distributed generation projects.
MegaCell boards smart urbanization joint venture
Urbeco, a new European alliance, aims to carry out smart and eco-friendly urbanization in developing countries. Belgium’s Groupmec and Switzerland’s Ovóla have joined MegaCell Engineering in the venture.
VDE, Fraunhofer ISE award First Solar first quality tested certification
The testing and certification institute says the new certification marks a new age of risk reduction, quality and safety for solar plant assets while reducing the risk for PV power plant investors.
EU parliament approves new European Commission
Despite some high-profile setbacks, like the resignation of Alenka Bratusek as energy union vice president nominee, Jean-Claude Juncker’s new commission is set to take power on November 1.
SunEdison wins 17.7 MW of distributed solar projects in California
The company is set to build 30 solar systems for nine public agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area — SunEdison’s home turf.
SMA joins research study on balancing power with PV
Backed by the German government, the PV-Regel project aims to study how PV can balance power, particularly on an international level, and to develop requirement profiles for PV to balance power in the future.
Solar energy prices to drop by up to 12% in 2014
Solar energy prices saw double-digit declines last year of between 12 and 19%. The trend is expected to continue in 2014 with further PV price drops of between 3 and 12%, according to NREL.
OPDE surpasses 56.6 MW of solar in UK
The Spanish company has a current development pipeline in the U.K. of more than 200 MW and is on track to meet its target of connecting 100 MW of PV capacity in the country by 2015.
