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In order to tackle India’s blackouts in remote places, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government plans to spend 15 billion rupees (approximately US$250 million) on solar power so that electricity supply to farmers can be re...  more

Recurrent Energy launched the commercial operation of the 10 MWp/7 MW (AC) Sunningdale solar project. This is the final project to reach commercial operation in the 20 project portfolio, totaling 220 MWp, developed by Recurrent En...  more

At this year’s Solar Decathlon Europe, the “Unicode Team” from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan designed an energy-efficient building “Orchid House” that combines vivid Taiwanese impressions and advanced Taiw...  more

SolarWorld presented products of solar-system solutions during the solar-industry trade show Intersolar North America in San Francisco last week. The company’s Sunmodule XL – a high-power 72-cell mono-crystalline solar panel – and...  more

SunEdison announced a new project that will install 159 kW of solar PV micro-grids with battery storage in six remote Indian villages, which will bring electricity to, and thereby improve health and education for, 4,875 off-grid p...  more

Solar Frontier announced that it will work with New Energy for the World (NEW) on an 8.1 MWp solar power plant in Banwell, UK. Solar Frontier will provide a complete and optimized package of electronic components, including CIS so...  more

A PV power plant with nearly 300,000 solar panels in an agricultural park Ortaffa in the French Pyrenees is the biggest solar project juwi group has ever built in the nation. Covering 87 hectares, the power plant can genera...  more

Kyocera Corporation filed a complaint in Tokyo District Court on June 10th against Hanwha Q CELLS Japan Co., Ltd., for infringement of a Kyocera patent relating to solar modules. The complaint was filed after extensive negotiation...  more

Solar-Fabrik AG will take over fab 2 of Centrosolar’s insolvent Sonnenstromfabrik GmbH in Wismar on August 1, 2014, and will continue module production using the existing equipment of the company. Concurrently 143 employees ...  more

The city of Palmdale recently announced the completion of an aggregate 976kW DC solar generation project. Located at Palmdale’s Civic Center, DryTown Water Park and Marie Kerr Park, the system is designed to generate more t...  more