Jolywood acquires Filmcutter's backsheet business
Chinese backsheet supplier Jolywood will acquire the backsheet business of Italian supplier Filmcutter. In doing so, Jolywood will expand its ability to supply non-fluoro-polymer PET backsheets.
Chile heats up: SunPower and Enel add new power plants
Chile’s market for photovoltaic power plants is off to a hot start in 2015, with new 70 MW and 55 MW projects coming on line and the country’s energy regulator, Sistema Interconectado Central (SIC), estimating the addition of as much as 1.8 GW this year.
Investments in 'grid-edge' companies climb to $1.3 billion in 2014
According to GTM Research, investments in the field last year surpassed 2012 and 2013 but remained below the $1.4 billion the sector raised in 2011.
SolarWorld wins again: US affirms injury over PV imports from China, Taiwan
In the latest chapter of the ongoing trade dispute between certain PV manufacturers in the United States and China, the U.S. International Trade Commission in a vote Wednesday upheld tariffs proposed in 2014 on PV imports from China and Taiwan.
Top Chinese module suppliers sell out till Q2 while increasing market share
Representing 35% of global module capacity, IHS forecasts a 5.7 GW total effective capacity of Chinese tier-1 module suppliers in the first quarter of 2015.
China: Move to shore up manufacturers through new regulations
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in China has released new regulations aimed at boosting equity in manufacturing expansions and encouraging consolidation amongst manufacturers in the country’s PV, battery and polysilicon industries.
UK: Grupotech to install 186 MW of PV in Q1
In the three years that Grupotec has been operating in the U.K., it has erected 32 PV parks with a total capacity of 220 MW, making it the No. 2 leading EPC company in the country last year.
SunEdison secures European financing to build 85.2 MW of solar in UK
Spain’s Santander and Germany’s Bayerische Landesbank arranged funding for the projects, which will be owned by SunEdison’s yieldco subsidiary TerraForm Power.
Hanwha Q Cells' exit from Germany reflects weak European PV market
The PV manufacturer has announced plans to end its production operations in Germany in March and relocate them to more affordable locations. IHS analyst Stefan de Haan sees the main reasons for the move in the floundering European PV markets and the lack of scale effects.
WFES Interview: BNEF's Michael Liebreich
When Saudi developer ACWA won Dubai’s 200 MW reverse auction for a PV power plant with a bid of only US$5.84c/kWh over 25 years, the low price stunned the PV industry. The founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Michael Liebreich, believes that it will also send a strong signal to the MENA region of just how cheap renewable energy can be delivered. Liebreich describes it as “the starting gun for something pretty substantial.” He spoke to pv magazine at the World Future Energy Summit this week in Abu Dhabi.
