Markets & Policy

SDG&E’s numbers show that existing installations and pending applications take up 74% of available capacity in the program, as utilities and solar advocates fight over the details of “net metering 2.0”.

SDG&E’s numbers show that existing installations and pending applications take up 74% of available capacity in the program, as utilities and solar advocates fight over the details of “net metering 2.0”.

IHS is warning of a short-term wafer supply shortage. Strong end market demand from China and the U.S. is coinciding with a period in which manufactures have expanded module output without having done so with wafer capacities.

The leading residential solar installer in the United States has announced a shift in strategy in its Q3 results, in preparation for a drop-down in the U.S. investment tax credit at the beginning of 2017.

Study by Agora Energiewende finds Germany’s electricity system can easily support four-times as much solar PV as currently installed, provided affordable battery storage of 40 GW is integrated into energy mix.

Thailand’s securities regulator and stock exchange issue warning to shareholders of solar company Superblock that a planned $407 million solar investment is flawed.

The Chinese solar company agrees package with CITIC Financial Leasing and CITIC Bank for credit facilities, foreign currency loans and variable-term loans to support the company’s business objectives.

German production equipment supplier Singulus has recorded weak sales in Q3, 2015. With order intake of only EUR 11.3 million for the quarter, the company looks likely to sustain further losses in 2015.

First Solar, Solarpack and Abengoa have been awarded 20-year power contracts in Chile’s latest energy supply auction. Wind projects represented the remaining bids.