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The German manufacturing equipment suppliers received orders for 50 of their Stringer production systems in the last quarter alone.

De Aar Solar Power – the only Photovoltaic project exporting power into the De Aar Municipality line.

De Aar Solar Power – the only Photovoltaic project exporting power into the De Aar Municipality line.

Six European Commission officials of DG Energy, DG Competition and DG Taxation and several attorneys representing renewable energy producers and associations from Greece, Latvia and Spain had a technical meeting on December 5th 2013. This meeting came after a common letter sent to the Commission by the attorneys Mr. Piet Holtrop, of Holtrop S.L.P, Mr. Sandis Bertaitis, of FORT and Mrs. Ioanna Mersinia, of Metaxas & Associates, in which they manifested their common concern for the cutbacks to renewable energies support schemes. During the meeting, the Commission recognized that the judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU in the case IBV (Case C-195/12, Industrie du bois de Vielsalm & Cie (IBV) SA v Région wallonne, of 26 September 2013) represented a change in relation to its previous position towards the application of EU law to support schemes implemented by Member States. Hence, the Commission is currently studying the scope of the reevaluation. Furthermore, DG Energy has officially asked the legal services of the Commission for the exact implications of the IBV Judgment and an answer is to be expected before the end of the year. Following the reevaluation, the open complaints before the Commission in relation to States implementing support schemes might need to be reconsidered under the new criteria (CHAP (2012)03350, CHAP(2013)00737, CHAP(2013)01105, CHAP(2013)01125, CHAP (2013)00409, CHAP (2013)03350 and SA.36190 (2013/CP). The attorneys will have a follow up with the Commission legal services to keep them informed on the outcome of the consultation to the legal services. More information: Sandis Bertaitis FORT Law Office Partner, Attorney-at-Law M: +371 2976 0042 E: sandis.bertaitis@fortlegal.com Piet Marco Holtrop HOLTROP S.L.P. Partner, Attorney-at-Law M: (+34) 637 052 135 E: pietholtrop@holtropslp.com Ioanna Mersinia METAXAS & ASSOCIATES Attorney-at-Law M: + 30 210 33 90 748 E: mersinia@metaxaslaw.gr

The 4.7 MW project marks the first successful partnership between two French solar market leaders, Exosun and Urbasolar

Invested and developed by a famous local EPC, a 2 MW PV power plant in the U.S. city of Chicago, Illinois, was officially put into operation recently, which is considered the largest rooftop PV project in the country so far, and exclusively using 500 kW PV inverters manufactured by Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd.

SunPower Corp. today announced that it is designing and building high efficiency SunPower solar power systems for 16 schools in the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) in Oakland, California. Once completed in 2014, the district estimates it will reduce electricity costs at those facilities by 46 percent.

CyboEnergy, Inc. in Rancho Cordova, California, announced today that it is the recipient of Frost & Sullivan’s 2013 Global Product Differentiation Excellence Award in Solar Inverters.

Recent developments and favorable policies suggest that the Turkish PV Market is off to a strong start:

Michael Mendik to Oversee SMA’s North American System Technology for Large Applications.