Megalim Solar Power, a company established by BrightSource Energy and Alstom, has won the bid to build a 121MW solar thermal power plant in Israel. The construction contract was awarded by Israel’s inter-ministerial Tender Committee. The 121MW BrightSource-Alstom Megali......[More]

German development bank KfW has signed off a €100 million loan to Morocco’s solar energy agency MASEN to build a concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in the south-central area of the country. The 160MW solar thermal plant will be constructed in Ouarzazate, with further ......[More]

Expectations of market conditions improving in 2013 are likely to result in polysilicon prices within the solar industry rebounding slightly, according to the latest analysis from market research firm IHS. However, prices for 9N solar polysilicon fell by over 9% in Octo......[More]

A two-year European Commission-funded project has been launched to investigate ways of integrating more PV electricity into the European grid. The so-called PV Grid project is being led by a consortium of 20 members — consisting of national PV associations, distribution......[More]

Wow, that was some ugly action in the solar sector on Wednesday. Take a look at this list, which I snipped from Google Finance: That’s the cream of the solar crop. Every one of them down at least 2.5%, and most down more than 5%. I don’t think this is really too complic......[More]

Improved technology and decreasing costs could boost concentrated PV (CPV) installations to 3GW worldwide within four years, according to research. A report by IMS Research said that advances in CPV technology would drive down costs by 16% annually, prompting an increas......[More]