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Despite enjoying a 7% increase in shipments in 2013, the solar inverter market will contract by 9% as manufacturers are forced to lower their prices as competition increases and demand falls.

The Chinese solar manufacturer has begun production in Turkey, realizing a 66 kWp system at a school in the nation’s largest city, Istanbul.

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) in the U.S. publishes its latest Solar Means Business report, finding that the country’s two largest retailers are committed to solar power.

Just in May the glass division of the German PV company Centrosolar Glas was taken over by Belgian competitor Ducatt. Now it seems that talks about future financing have fallen through. It is business as usual though meantime, despite the loom of insolvency.

If approved, the monies would be taken from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) to help 875 former First Solar employees in Germany re-intregrate into the job market.

The US subsidiary of the photovoltaic company Gerhrlicher Solar has already been sold. But the German company is now in insolvency proceedings. Operation and maintenance businesses will initially still carry on though.

South African utility company Eskom will use the French funds to develop its solar power projects after a deal was struck between Presidents Francois Hollande and Jacob Zuma.

Thailand: Large-scale solar farms that do not come online within the required time frame could have their contracts to sell power to the government scrapped. The government may instead purchase PV from residential suppliers.

Germany’s Singulus Technologies to supply Lithuania’s BOD Group High Technology Center L.I.G.H.T Wing (Lithuanian of green and high technologies) with a production line for its crystalline solar cells.

The EEG levy will rise to 6.24 Euro cents per kWh in 2014. This is an increase of almost 20%. The transmission system operators, or TSOs, bank on a levy contribution of €23.6 billion next year with this.