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SunPower To Acquire SolarWorld Americas
In a move being billed as a “new chapter in American solar panel manufacturing” SunPower, one of the world’s leading solar manufacturers, has announced that it will acquire 100% of SolarWorld Americas, one of the two companies who filed a…
Finland’s Fortum Wins Tender To Increase Country’s Solar Energy Capacity By 30%
The Finland-based firm Fortum has won a tender to build out the country’s total solar energy capacity by around 30%, it has revealed. Given that Fortum is majority-owned by Finland itself, the fact that it won the tender isn’t too…
More Good News About Coal-Killing Perovskite Solar Cells
US coal and nuclear energy stakeholders are still holding out hope for their aging power plants, but the window for relief is closing fast. They face stiff competition from low-cost natural gas, and renewables are flexing their muscles, too. This…
Solar Smashes Wind In First German Technology Neutral Tender
As the expiry of the previous support scheme for renewable energy in Denmark resulted in a significant expansion with land based wind energy in 2017, we hold our breath to see how the annual technology neutral wind and solar tenders…
Saudi Arabia to House World’s Largest Solar Project
According to the most recent data available from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Saudi Arabia is the second largest oil producer in the world. It produces 13 percent of the world’s oil and gets 60 percent of its own…
Highest Ever Quarterly Solar Manufacturing Capacity Expansion Announcements In Q4’17
Mark Osborne, the Senior News Editor for PV Tech, revealed last week that the fourth quarter of 2017 saw the highest ever recorded levels of new solar PV manufacturing expansion announcements for a quarter, totaling around 40 gigawatts (GW) across…
Sunnova Introduces Solar-Plus-Storage Offering “SunSafe”
Houston-based solar power company Sunnova has this week expanded its offerings to bring it into the solar-plus-storage market alongside its bigger-name competition Tesla and Sunrun with the introduction of its Sunnova SunSafe solar and home battery storage service. As the…