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sPower Secures Capital for 339MW of PV Projects

published: 2016-10-06 16:14
sPower has completed a tax equity investment and syndicated construction and term loan facility totaling $786 million. The capital will be used to finance a group of nine solar projects that, when fully operational, will generate ...  more

Taiwan Sets FiT Rates for 2017, Various Bonuses Favoring

published: 2016-10-05 18:52
Taiwan has officially announced the feed-in tariffs (FiT) schemes for renewable energy projects for 2017. Solar PV projects that fulfill certain criteria in 2017 will enjoy original FiT rates plus a 6% or 15% bonus. Taiwan’s Burea...  more

SoCore Energy to Build a 1.9MW Community PV Project in Texas

published: 2016-10-05 17:46
SoCore Energy announced today that construction has commenced on a 1.9MW ground-mounted solar project in Leakey, Texas for Bandera Electric Cooperative (BEC). SoCore worked to develop this project for BEC, which will provide the o...  more

Sion Power Delivers Next-gen Battery Solution

published: 2016-10-05 17:35
Sion Power announces the achievement of highly pursued next generation battery performance with its patented Licerion® technology. Licerion® is the registered trademark for newly developed battery products desi...  more

OXIS Energy Improves its Lithium Sulfur Cell Technology

published: 2016-10-05 17:09
OXIS Energy Ltd of the UK has successfully tested at over 400Wh/kg its Li-S development cell. This significant advancement comes as a result of the OXIS scientific team's work on increasing gravimetric energy density of its ne...  more

China to Cut 2017 Solar FiT by up to 40%

published: 2016-10-04 18:20
China is going to cut its feed-in tariffs (FiT) subsidies for solar PV systems for 2017 by 23~40%, according to an announcement published by the country’s National Development and Reform Commission. The new FiT scheme will become ...  more

EDF EN Mexico Wins 342MW of Wind and Solar in Auction

published: 2016-10-04 16:40
EDF EN Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V. (EDF EN Mexico), a subsidiary of the EDF Energies Nouvelles Group, has won 342MW in Mexico’s second long-term auction for energy and clean energy certificates supply and purchase contracts wi...  more

ABB and Aibel to Partner on Offshore Wind Connections

published: 2016-10-04 16:29
ABB and Aibel announced a strategic partnership to deliver state-of-the-art offshore wind integration solutions. ABB will focus on its proven high voltage direct current (HVDC) technology, while Aibel will take turnkey...  more

OCI to Acquire Tokuyama’s Malaysian Polysilicon Fab

published: 2016-10-03 15:37
Japan-based Tokuyama, one of the world’s leaders in polysilicon manufacturing, announced to terminate its solar-grade polysilicon business by selling its wholly-owned subsidiary, Tokuyama Malaysia, to OCI, a South Korean pol...  more