Spanish photovoltaic panels producer Innovacion en Alta Tecnologia Solar (Iatso) has filed for insolvency, it was announced today.The company fell victim to tough trading conditions, which included Spains recent reduction of renewable energy premiums. Spanish manufacturers have...... [More]

A North American consortium comprising SunWize Technologies, Solexica Energy Corporation, JCM Capital, and Radical Energyis is to develop two solar photovoltaic projects in Ecuador.The plants are 30MW and 20MW in size and have been named Condor Solar and Solarconnection respec...... [More]

US energy provider SolarCity has installed PV systems with a total capacity of 2.3MW at all 19 district schools and a district support centre which make up the Murrieta Valley Unified School District in California.All the PV systems were designed and installed by SolarCity and ...... [More]

For the fourth time in two years China has increased its solar energy target from 21GW by 2015 to 35GW.Chinese newspaper The Economic Times reported Shi Lishan, Deputy Director of the Renewable Energy Office of the National Energy Administration (NEA), said, The target of 35 G...... [More]

PV module encapsulant material supplier, STR Holdings hit by the pending loss of its largest customer, First Solar, said that its restructuring efforts would result in a workforce reduction of approximately 160, or 32% of its global workforce.According to 2012 SEC fillings, ST...... [More]

Expected cuts to the feed-in tariff in Japan and import duties imposition in the EU are generating a higher than anticipated pull-in of factory module orders, according to EnergyTrend, a market research division of TrendForce.The Japanese market has built momentum since a new F...... [More]