A UK renewables developer has unveiled plans to build Africas biggest photovoltaic (PV) solar project in a move it believes has the potential to trigger a clean energy revolution in the region....... [More]

First Solar, the Arizona-based thin film photovoltaic company best known for building large utility scale power plants in the California desert and the Carrizo Plain, may be easing its way out of the large-scale solar business. In an interview in an Australian trade journal, a...... [More]

Solar module prices across most regions of the world declined in October due to weak demand in Germany, a trend set to continue into 2013, according to market research firm IHS.Official figures just out by Germanys Federal Network Agency put PV installations at 611MW in Octobe...... [More]

The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) announced that the government will aim to increase photovoltaic power generation by 130 MW in 2013, 30MW higher than the goal for 2012, but the purchasing rate will dro 10% further, continuing the reduction in the previous two years. Th...... [More]

Chinas CSP capacity could increase to 3GW by 2015, although more conservative estimates predict it will only grow to 1GW, according to a paper by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.The larger figure is based on the predictions of Huatai United Securities and would bring the marke...... [More]

A slew of emerging markets for PV have been identified in a weighty new report from market research firm IHS, which has identified 20GW of PV projects across Asia Pacific, Latin America, mddle-East, Africa and emerging Europe.However, the IHS Solar Emerging Markets Study ident...... [More]