Global interconnection and data centre company Equinix has agreed to a power purchase agreement (PPA) for 105MW of PV power with renewable energy company SunEdison.
Production has begun on Saudi Arabia’s first locally-made solar inverters through a partnership between KACO and local company Advanced Electronics Company (AEC).
Scotland’s government has decided to go against the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC) Renewables Obligation proposals and retain the grandfathering guarantee.
The UK government’s response to a petition calling for dramatic feed-in tariff cut proposals to be reversed has been criticised after it insisted expected returns of 4% would be “appropriate” for the industry to operate.
PV module assembly equipment specialist Spire Corporation has reached out to Massachusetts-based investment bank Mirus Capital Advisors in order to explore alternative measures for the company — including measures such as the potential sale of Spire or some of its assets.
Clean energy communications and consulting firm Mercom Capital Group is holding firm on its projection of 57.4GW of global installations in 2015 — standing as a growth of 25-30% when compared to other years.
PV project developer Sky Solar Holdings has secured funds totalling US$100 million from Hudson Clean Energy Partners for projects in Latin America and Japan.
