Markets & Policy

Company claims new advanced digital processing can dramatically lower inverter’s weight and size while optimizing performance; market launch penciled for December.

Utility KIUC has signed a contract to buy electricity from an integrated solar and storage system that SolarCity will build on Kaua’i. The system will provide power on demand to meet evening peak on the island’s grid.

The new facility is part of a wave of investment in solar manufacturing in Brazil, and will be used to supply Latin America’s booming solar market.

Four months after NEXTracker chose Flextronics to make its single-axis trackers, the contract manufacturer has entered into a deal to buy the company.

Australia’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation is to tip another AUD$250 million of financing into large scale solar projects, as part of a co-ordinated drive among government agencies to build up to 10 major projects and drive down the cost of large scale solar.

A record 5.3 GW of PV under construction in the United States reflects solar PV’s increasing ability to compete with conventional power on price.

Spanish bank agrees lending and tax equity bridge loan for Recurrent Energy, California subsidiary of Canadian Solar involved in the creation of the 100 MW Mustang solar project.

The Portuguese solar project developer augments O&M business in Italy with deal to service 14 solar PV plants owned by Green Utility; global O&M portfolio reaches 600 MW.

The rules for the electricity market published on Tuesday establish longer PPAs for projects awarded in auctions. The first energy tender is expected this year. The electricity market starts to operate at the beginning of next year.

Subsidiary of Energy Future Holdings announces power purchase agreement with U.S. solar company for 116 MW of solar power generated by large-scale solar plant in Upton County, Texas.