Markets & Policy

As it prepares to divide its silicon and module business units, Norwegian group REC is looking to entice wary bondholders with a new offer.

Shipments of photovoltaic modules from the leading 20 manufacturers exceeded 5.8 GW in Q2 2013, representing 21% year-on-year growth.

Solar is booming in Ukraine thanks to attractive FIT rates but the country’s tarnished political system is keeping foreign investors out of the country, say industry insiders.

Downstream figures from IHS Solar, released on Monday, reveal that thin film giant First Solar is set to install around 1.1 GW of solar installations this year.

Brazil’s industrial and economic powerhouse, which boasts twice the maximum global solar irradiation of Germany, is looking to install 1 GW of solar capacity by 2020.

Threat of lawsuits fly back and forth as Maltese developer of the OneGiga project claims the land offered by the Serbian government was inappropriate and Belgrade officials say the Maltese company broke an investment agreement.

The European manufacturers’ lobby group welcomes the announcement the anti subsidy investigation into Chinese solar products will continue in a bid to prevent the EC quietly letting the complaint disappear.

Computer modellers say $1/W solar could displace gas, nuclear and CCS and pay for the cost of introducing a carbon cap.

Quarterly losses from the Alternative Energy division of the U.S. power company widened to $29 million year on year but solar farms did their bit for NRG’s Yield infrastructure division.

PacWest says the Brazilian government is offering it incentives to set up a CIGS production line in the country.