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Swiss-based Oerlikon Solar is looking to garner a significant share in the nascent Indian solar market, according to the country’s Economic Times.?

Organizers of Solar Power International 2010, held last month from October 12 – 14 in Los Angeles, the U.S., have announced that the trade show attracted a record number of both professional and public visitors.

Singaporean Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong has told delegates that Singapore is not ready to embrace solar energy on a significant scale.

A new study has concluded that Germany’s power grids are “well prepared” to handle the future expansion of photovoltaics (PV) generation to the planned 52 gigawatts by 2020, the level stipulated by the country’s government in its National Action Plan for Renewable Energy.

The Czech lower house approved a bill on Friday, which cuts most of the country’s generous support for photovoltaics (PV) power plants newly built as of next March, reports Reuters.

According to a new report, Sunbelt countries – those located within +/- 35° latitude around the equator – constitute an “immense” opportunity for photovoltaics (PV) to become mainstream by 2020; by 2030 they could develop into a “major” electricity source.

A review of the New South Wales (NSW) solar bonus scheme has led the state government to the decision to reduce the feed-in tariffs for solar energy.

Bernreuter Research states that the feedstock is sufficient for 27.5 gigawatts in 2011.

The U.S. Department of the Interior has approved the nearly 1,100 megawatts solar power project in Blythe, California.

Bloomberg’s New Energy Finance report shows that the U.S. solar market could provide 4.3 percent of the nation’s power by 2020, if US$100 billion in investments can flow in.