The Solar Dawn Consortium in Australia has cancelled plans to develop its beleaguered A$1.2 billion (US$1.3 billion) Western Downs facility, it has been announced. The Solar Dawn project, which involved the construction of a 250MW hybrid solar thermal and gas plant near......[More]

Irish developer Mainstream Renewable Power is ready to break ground on two proposed solar projects in South Africa after inking financing, power purchase and implementation agreements with the South African government. The two PV projects are part of a larger €500 milli......[More]

Solar Green Technology (SGT), an Italy-based specialist in the design, installation and construction of PV plants, has designed and built 7.8MW worth of PV projects in Italy. The PV arrays are part of a larger project called Century which consists of industrial rooftop ......[More]

Turning solar panel factories into neighborhood businesses, similar to microbreweries, is inventor Shawn Frayne’s argument as to how to make solar panels cheaper and more accessible to the masses. Frayne and co-inventor Alex Hornstein created the micro-solar panel “fact......[More]

The Israeli Wind Energy Association accused Energy and Water Minister Uzi Landau of “burying” the wind energy industry in favor of solar energy development – in a letter sent to the minister on Tuesday. “In recent days we were astonished to discover that it is the inten......[More]

BEIJING—China filed a complaint to the World Trade Organization on Monday charging the European Union with violating rules governing subsidies to its solar-components industry, in the latest move in a global spat over the solar industry. China is complaining that power ......[More]