States territories are driving the Australian energy transition in the absence of federal policy, the Climate Council says in its new report, Renewables Ready: States Leading the chrge.In particular, the authorities in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), South Australia ...... [More]

Strong domestic dem for solar modules in China, allied to a pre-Section 201 rush of orders in the U.S., is pushing up module prices to around 10% more than many Indian developers had expected a situation that could lead to a slowdown in surging Indian solar growth.According t...... [More]

IHS Markit has made an upward revision to its PV installations forecat for 2017, now expects 90 GW of new PV to be installed worldwide before the end of the year, 14% higher than 2016 installations, significantly above the previous IHS forecat of 79 GW.The biggest changes ar...... [More]

In spite of some uncertainties in the solar market, overall corporate funding in the industry, including venture capital (VC) funding, debt funding public market financing, reached $4.6 billion over the first half of the year, up from $4.5 billion in 2016, but also droped fro...... [More]

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has approved a $660 million financing for the construction of 500 MW of solar power plants at the 1.8 GW Benban solar complex in Aswan, southern Egypt.According to a statement from Egypts State Info...... [More]

The acknowledgement by the European Commission (EC) that its minimum import price (MIP) mechanism for solar cells modules imported into Europe has been ineffectual could be undone by the proposal of new mechanism for pricing that SolarPower Europe says divorces prices from re...... [More]