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Applications & Installations
Astronergy finishes 16.5 MW in South Korea The Chinese PV supplier invested 29.7 billion Korean won ($26.8 million) in the project on Jeju Island, roughly 80 kilometres south of the Korean peninsula.
Brian Publicover
Mar 28, 2017
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Applications & Installations
GSSG to acquire 350 MW of PV in Japan The U.S. private equity firm has announced more than $120 million of additional investments in the Japanese solar market.
Brian Publicover
Mar 27, 2017
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Kong Sun posts $7.9 million profit in 2016 The Chinese PV investment group recorded a profit of 54.8 million yuan ($7.96 million), from a loss of 98.9 million yuan in 2015, as it more than double the size of its operational solar portfolio.
Brian Publicover
Mar 27, 2017
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Shunfeng expands 2016 loss forecast Shunfeng International Clean Energy (SFCE) expects to record a loss of 2.4 billion yuan ($349 million) for the 12 months to the end of December 2016.
Brian Publicover
Mar 27, 2017
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PLB Engineering unit to develop 20 MW in Malaysia PLB Green Solar — a subsidiary of Penang-based construction group PLB Engineering — has secured approval to build the project from the Malaysian Energy Commission.
Brian Publicover
Mar 24, 2017
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Applications & Installations
AU Optronics finishes Taiwan’s biggest rooftop PV project The Taiwanese company completed the 9.87 MW installation — which consists of arrays on top of two of its liquid-crystal display factories — in late December.
Brian Publicover
Mar 24, 2017
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Markets & Policy
Neo Solar Power posts $206.9 million net loss in 2016 The Taiwanese PV cell producer partly attributed the NT$6.3 billion ($206.9 million) loss — down from a NT$139 million net profit in 2015 — to the idling of some of its production capacity in China.
Brian Publicover
Mar 22, 2017
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Applications & Installations
SB Energy acquires 30 MW in northern Japan The Tokyo-based developer and MUL Energy Investment — a unit of Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance — have purchased a project company from conglomerate Marubeni.
Brian Publicover
Mar 22, 2017
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RMI calls for ‘action’ on Africa’s PV minigrid market Solar-powered minigrids could account for a greater slice of sub-Saharan Africa’s $740 million off-grid market, but progress is still needed throughout the region in terms of policy, financing and commercial services, the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) says in a new report.
Brian Publicover
Mar 20, 2017