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It’s fair to say that, overall, renewable energy development has been disappointing in Israel, however, the tide appears to be shifting. To announce this new momentum, in the coming weeks a new wave of PV installations is expected to be announced.

Claude Turmes, Member of the European Parliament for Luxembourg’s Green Party, issues rallying call to European solar industry at SolarPower Europe 100 GW event.

The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) is planning to trial a ‘Credit Enhancement Guarantee Scheme.’ The scheme will be aimed at encouraging bond issuance by developers for solar and wind projects that have been running for one year or more.

Four bills signed by California governor Brown will mandate a distributed energy storage procurement, fund incentives for behind-the-meter storage, and more.

The innovative process that transforms quartz into solar grade metal in one-step is being developed by PyroGenesis Canada, and has achieved encouraging purity levels as high as 99.97% during the first series of testing.

This week, federal courts heard the first arguments over the Clean Power Plan (CPP), the Obama Administration’s signature policy on greenhouse gas emissions in the power sector and the cornerstone of national compliance with the Paris Agreement. In this interview Nathan Serota, a senior analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) covering U.S. solar, provides some context for what the case and CPP mean for the solar industry.

A tough week of tariff cuts and bankruptcies for the solar industry, although a few success stories from California, India and the Middle East serve to lighten the mood. The strange story of a potential lifeline for SunEdison, as well Solar’s mention in the first U.S. Presidential debate, also make for interesting developments.

This week we saw policy wins in California and New York City, as well as some good signs from Nevada and a promising policy in Massachusetts – not to mention documentation of a big fall in solar costs.

Project Sunroof, an initiative led by Google, has been announced as one of 13 winners of the United Nations ‘Momentum for Change’ climate change award, by enabling tens of millions of Americans to evaluate the solar potential of their home with just the click of a button, showing them both monetary savings and environmental impact.

Swiss solar technology provider Meyer Burger today announced a company wide restructuring program. The program aims to reduce the company’s overall operating costs by CHF 50 million.