Solar Frontier, a Japanese thin-film PV manufacturer, has teamed up with Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) in order to jointly establish an investment company which will provide funding for PV plants in Japan. The companies have signed a “basic” agreement which will see t......[More]

Yingli Green has surpassed Suntech Power Holdings as the largest PV company in the world, based on revised full-year module shipment guidance. In advance of its fourth quarter 2012 financial results, Yingli Green said that better than expected module shipments in the qu......[More]

Market research firm, Bernreuter Research is forecasting PV installations could reach 36GW in 2013, driving renewed polysilicon demand that is expected to push spot prices to around US$25/kg by the end of 2013. The latest forecast could provide significant relief for th......[More]

ASP declines in 2012, driven by industry overcapacity throughout the PV supply chain, forced over 350 companies in China, from equipment suppliers, polysilicon producers to module manufacturers, to stop operations entirely, according to market research firm ENF. ENF sai......[More]

Enel Latin América (Chile), a developer of renewable energy projects and the Chilean subsidiary of Italy-based Enel Green Power, is seeking approval for a 122MW PV plant and has submitted plans to the Chilean environmental authority, Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental (SE......[More]

US-based PV installer SolarCity said its PV installations reached 156MW in 2012, an increase of 117% compared to 2011, exceeding guidance by 10MW. Providing its first update on business expectations since its successful IPO on the NASDAQ stock market in December, 2012, ......[More]