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South Africa, Ethiopia and Kenya lead renewable energy surge, with more clean power to be added this year than entire 2000-13 period.

The renewable energy developer brought five solar PV projects online across the south of England in quick succession, swelling its solar portfolio.

Cell developed with light harvesting transparent solar concentrators delivers just 1% efficiency, researchers aiming for 5% in near future.

Bangkok-based clean power developer Energy Absolute Pcl plans to invest 46 billion baht in Thailand’s green energy sector over the next three years.

The JinkoSolar subsidiary will engineer, procure and construct solar PV projects in China’s Hengfeng County, Jiangxi Province.

The U.S. chemical company claims SunEdison’s cells and modules use a specific type of metallization paste that infringes its patented tellurium paste technology.

The car giant’s Deeside plant in North Wales has been fitted with 13,000 solar panels that will power 10% of the plant’s electricity needs each year.

The solar giant will recall 1.3 million U.S. and 210,000 Canadian systems due to the risk of electrocution, shock or fire caused by incorrectly fitted copper lugs.

After announcing last August that it attended to sell it’s solar business, equipment supplier Komax Group announced this week that Komax Solar has been sold in a management buyout of the company. Komax Solar, a stringer supplier, will now become Xcell Automation. pv magazine spoke to incoming Komax Solar President and CEO Brian Micciche about the move.

A quick look back at the biggest solar news stories that have grabbed our attention over these past seven days.