Chinese social media questions Jinko's fire prevention measures
Users on Chinese micro blogging site Weibo have raised questions about JinkoSolar’s fire prevention measures at its Jianxi fab. Informal reports indicate a tower that is a part of the Jinko facilities appears totally destroyed.
Congress debates distributed solar ahead of new legislation
United States senators on Tuesday received testimony from representatives of the electric power industry, energy regulators and national laboratories on the state of innovation related to the grid.
West Virginia governor approves previously vetoed net metering bill
West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Thursday approved a bill to rewrite net energy metering rules for on-site distributed solar generation in the state after he vetoed virtually the same proposal two weeks earlier.
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Smart Villages launches Energy Innovation Challenge
Off-grid initiative launches competition for solar entrepreneurs.
North America: Commercial applications to lead storage rollout
IHS has concluded that 700 MW of solar systems installed in North America will be coupled with storage in 2018. Representing nine percent of all installs, this is up from 30 MW in 2014.
BBOXX announces Series B funding, continues off-grid gold rush
The DOEN Foundation and Bamboo Finance will focus on off-grid projects in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Scatec Solar to invest $300 million in Egypt for up to 200 MW of solar
The Norwegian solar power producer is currently developing a 50 MW PV project in the country, where the government is looking to install 2.3 GW of solar power in the next two years.
CEO interview: LONGi forecasts rapid mono wafer cost reduction
Chinese monocrystalline ingot and wafer producer LONGi is predicting non-silicon costs for mono ingot production to drop significantly, to as low as $5/kg by 2018. The producer reports that the rollout of diamond wire technology is having a dramatic and positive impact on costs.
SolarCity launches global microgrid service
U.S.-based third-party owned solar provider SolarCity has launched its GridLogic microgrid service, which will integrate distributed solar with battery storage and load management for discrete areas of electricity consumers. In keeping with SolarCitys business model the service can be provided with little to no upfront cost.
