JA Solar completes $70m Malaysian fab
The Chinese solar company has confirmed that production at the facility in Bayan Lepas will begin in the next couple of weeks. Fab is JA Solar’s first outside of China.
GermanyÂ’s electricity export prices higher than import, reports Fraunhofer ISE
Data disproves claims by critics of the Energiewende that Germany is ‘dumping’ excess power on to neighboring countries, finding instead that its exported energy may earn the country EUR 2 billion in 2015.
Trina connects two-thirds of 300 MW solar plant in Yunnan, China
The vertically integrated solar firm has successfully connected 200 MW of the plant, and hopes to finalize completion on schedule.
STA drafts one-pound-plan to save UK FIT
The U.K.’s Solar Trade Association has prepared an emergency plan to save the country’s feed-in tariffs at meaningful levels. A brief of the plan has now been presented and full details are expected to be released tomorrow.
GTM Research finds opportunities for PV manufacturing in the United States and India
The company’s latest report finds that China and Southeast Asia are still the most attractive locations, but that the geography of manufacturing is diversifying, as is demand.
IdeemaTec to supply 101 MW of solar trackers to Jordan
The German tracking and mounting company signs supply agreement with Jordanian government for the delivery of 101 MW of its safeTrack Horizon tracking systems.
Solar Frontier to cut panel production costs by 20%, plans overseas fab
Japanese thin-film producer Solar Frontier is hoping to cut panel production costs at its fab in Miyagi prefecture to $0.40/W as it eyes increased competitiveness in the face of sustained Chinese price pressure.
China-owned CIGS manufacturer Avancis breaks ground on 1.5 GW fab
The CIGS production facility is being built for CNBM, the building materials company that owns Avancis, and partners for a total investment of $1.62 billion.
UK: Renewables brought down wholesale cost of electricity by GBP 1.55bn in 2014
Report by independent energy company Good Energy, backed by University of Sheffield, finds the impact of subsidies on U.K. bill payers has been lessened by renewable energy, which has served to lower wholesale electricity costs.
China hits 9.9 GW of solar by Q3, says NEA
Country hits 38 GW of cumulative capacity after installing 9.9 GW by September 30, according to data published this week by the National Energy Administration; 2015 target recently increased to 23.1 GW.
