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SolarCity® announced that it has raised $81 million in equity financing. The round was co-led by Silver Lake Kraftwerk and Valor Equity Partners, and included investments from Nicholas J. Pritzker, partner at Tao Ventures and seni...  more

United Solar, the global manufacturer of UNI-SOLAR® lightweight, flexible solar modules and a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (OTC:ENERQ.PK) announced today the shipment of 3.45 megawatts (MW) of its UNI...  more

Wind energy broke a record in February in Spain: wind turbines achieved their highest-ever electricity output, generating a total of 4.890 GWh. According to provisional figures from Red Eléctrica de España (REE), wind power was th...  more

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) ("Yingli Green Energy" or the "Company"), a solar energy company and one of the world's largest vertically integrated photovoltaic manufacturers, which markets its products u...  more

BenQ Solar, AUO's solar division, is participating in PV EXPO 2012 from February 29 to March 2 in Tokyo, Japan to exhibit high-efficiency PV modules, monitoring system, and safety and quality of its PV solutions. In this Japan's l...  more

A substantial validation of the power of Dye Solar Cell (DSC) technology to significantly impact the world's renewable energy supply has come from the World Cultural Council as it awards the father of the dye solar cell  (DSC), Pr...  more

According to EnergyTrend, a research division of TrendForce, mobile phone products will soon see a wave of new model upgrades, and lithium-polymer batteries will relive the glory of 2011, with penetration rate forecasted to increa...  more

Shenzhen City will add 1500 pure electric BYD K9 buses and e6 taxis to its public transportation fleet, already the largest zero-emissions fleet in service world-wide. Commenting on these successes, Shenzhen Development and Reform...  more

Today more pressure was put on the EU to raise the carbon price under the Emissions Trading System (ETS) - the EU's main tool for reducing industrial greenhouse gas emissions. The Parliament's Industry, Research and Energ...  more