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The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced last Wednesday that bifacial solar panels will be exempt from the tariffs under Section 201, which were imposed on PV products with 2.5 GW or higher capacity in Jan. 2018 for a four-year period. ...  more

In a joint venture with Gogoro, Yamaha Taiwan is scheduled to roll out an e-scooter in Aug. 2019. ...  more

India has targeted raising its renewable-energy capacity to 175 GW by 2022, including 100 GW of PV power, 60 GW of wind power, and 10 GW of hydraulic power. ...  more

Taiwan’s Kwang Yang Motor Co. Ltd. (KYMCO) held a press event on 5 June to introduce its electric scooter (e-scooter) charging network Ionex 2.0 and four new models of e-scooters. ...  more

In the wake of the end of the government's subsidy program, the installation volume of residential PV power systems in the U.K. plunged by 94% in April, 2019. ...  more

The export price of Chile's lithium carbonate has plunged to US$10,655 per ton on average, the lowest since last Nov. and down 17.6% year-on-year and 9% sequentially, according to Chilean customs. ...  more

On June 5, the world's largest hydrogen filling station was inaugurated in the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park, giving a strong boost to the development of hydrogen fuel cell cars in the city. ...  more

China’s JA Solar Holdings is presenting 15 high-efficiency module products that showcase state-of-the-art technologies at SNEC 2019. These innovative solutions include 9BB mono-Si half-cut PERC cells, MBB N-type bifacial cells in G2G encapsulation, N-type FRC cells, and shingled mono-Si PERC cells. ...  more

India's MPPMCL (M.P. Power Management Company Limited) has put forth an expression of interest (EOI), calling for the installation of a 500 MW energy storage facility in India. ...  more

Blue Cars has rolled out a new motive-force battery module for Nissan Leaf, which is capable of boosting the cruising range of the electric car model by 45%. ...  more