EU PVSEC to be hosted separately from Intersolar Europe in 2017
After a short-lived collaboration, Europe’s two major solar events will be hosted four months apart in 2017, with EU PVSEC opting to travel to Amsterdam for its world leading PV solar energy conference.
India loses solar appeal at World Trade Organization
Appeal to overturn U.S. complaint that India’s domestic content requirement for its solar power sector is discriminatory rejected by the WTO, as expected. India has lodged similar trade case against U.S.
Breaking: World record low price entered for solar plant in Abu Dhabi
A consortium of JinkoSolar and Marubeni put in the bid of 2.42 cent per kWh for a PV plant that was initially set at 350 MW, but pv magazine understands it may be significantly larger.
San Francisco approves green roof mandate
San Francisco has become the first city in the U.S. to approve such an obligation, which requires all new construction projects to have 30% of their roof space set aside for green roofs and/or solar panels, while one of the Californian citys most iconic buildings also gets a solar makeover.
Nevada regulators "grandfather" existing net metering customers under old rules
The ruling reverses the most egregious aspect of the state’s dismantling of net metering, but will do little to revive its distributed solar market.
India: Imported solar module prices plunge to 36 US cents per watt-peak
Analysis by Bridge to India finds that the average cost of solar PV modules imported into India has fallen by almost 15% over the past three months, prompting severe concerns for local manufacturers.
Lawsuits attempt to stop Tesla acquisition of SolarCity
An investor has filed for an injunction to stop the merger, in one of the four lawsuits challenging the deal
Kaneka achieves new efficiency record for a practical size crystalline silicon PV cell
The Japanese tech company broke the existing record with an impressive efficiency of 26.33% the first time that 26% has been breached during a NEDO project, which Kaneka Corporation hopes will lead the solar industry towards lower power generation costs.
Japan's JRE to invest in 100MW of PV
Japan Renewable Energy (JRE), a Tokyo-based renewables investor backed by Goldman Sachs, has announced plans to invest an undisclosed sum in the development of two solar projects in the southern part of Fukushima prefecture.
Enphase surveys U.S. distributors for Q1 2017 AC battery deliveries
Enphase Energy announced at SPI 2016 that it has begun canvassing its U.S. distributor network to gauge interest for mass orders of its AC Battery system, which was test marketed in Australia over the past year, culminating in 70,000 units in shipment process there.
