Markets & Policy

It is predicted that the Los Santos 1 project will enter service in July. The investment for this project in the North of Mexico stands at around US$40 million.

It is predicted that the Los Santos 1 project will enter service in July. The investment for this project in the North of Mexico stands at around US$40 million.

The Royal Bank of Scotland invested a total of GBP 1 billion into the U.K.’s renewable energy sector in 2015, including a record GBP 450 million for solar, which represented a three-fold increase on 2014.

Launched last year by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, the Shanghai-based New Development Bank has made clean energy a primary focus.

The U.S. residential solar lease provider expands its presence in South Carolina with the inauguration of a new office and supply warehouse in the city of Columbia.

While some of the country’s leading retailers have solar PV installations and pilot projects in the works, Greenpeace says there’s “significant room to improve.”

PV module manufacturing costs in China remain considerably lower than other parts of the world. Efficiencies of production, product and material innovations and economies of scale continue to reduce costs, but what’s behind China’s lower costs? In a new report, IHS examines the reasons behind price disparities and the factors that continue to bring costs down.

Sonnenstromfabrik is back in business. The German solar PV module manufacturer is under new management and producing its own branded products as well as for OEM customers.

The latest information from New York City, Long Island and Westchester show a boom in installations, as Long Island reaches 139 MW of installed residential solar.

BNEF finds that while weakness in solar stocks impacted the overall environment, investment in small- to mid-scale solar was up 4% year-over-year.