Energy Minister Segolene Royal put out a request for project proposals for solar farms, according to a statement on the ministry’s website. It is seeking six projects with 500 MW of capacity apiece. The solar farms will be built between 2017 2020. Winners of the tender ......[More]

Sunrun Inc. climbed the most in more than six months after sales increased 69 percent in the second quarter, beating expectations, the second-biggest U.S. rooftop solar company exceeded its installation forecast. The company gained 15 percent to $6.23 at the close in Ne......[More]

It took decades to install the first 10 cumulative gigawatts of PV. Now we’re going to see that figure matched in a matter of months. According to data from GTM Research""s Utility PV Market Tracker, the United States now has over 10 gigawatts of solar PV projects under......[More]

Independent board members have approved Tesla""s bid to acquire SolarCity in an all-stock transition worth $2.6 billion. By combining the two companies, Tesla expects to realize cost efficiencies of $150 million in the first year after closing the deal. Those savings wi......[More]

California utility Pacific Gas & Electric has spent years testing how “smart” solar inverters behind-the-meter batteries can be turned into distribution grid assets. Now it’s getting ready to roll out these technologies in actual customers’ homes tapping the existing fl......[More]

Thouss of German companies are set to keep their exemptions from payment of green power fees in a shakeup of the nation’s financial support for renewable energy, lawmakers in Berlin said. Germany is introducing auctions of wind, solar biomass power from 2017. Since the ......[More]