Mercom: Partial recovery in solar investment during Q3 (with charts)
Mercom Capital’s Q3 report shows a significant increase in investment levels from last quarter, but funding is still down across the board compared to a year ago.
U.S. demand helps boost REC module shipments 25% in Q2
The Norwegian solar company shipped 326 MW of modules in the second quarter of 2016, with the United States accounting for 60% of all shipments.
Perovskite breakthrough may fast-track new solar PV technology
Just over a year after Australian cleantech company Dyesol claimed to have achieved efficiency levels of 10 per cent in its perovskite solar cells, US researchers claim to have topped that, with a breakthrough that could also work to fast-track commercialisation of the technology.
Boom time: the pv magazine USA week in review
It’s a complicated time in the U.S. solar industry, with a booming market for utility-scale solar and increasing public interest, but also collapsed PV module prices and shifts in production.
Steel pipe makers charge Chinese producers with evading import duties
The formal trade allegation deals with the steel pipes used in PV system mounting structures.
GT appoints Greg Knight CEO, reinforces focus on polysilicon
The solar and polysilicon equipment maker hasn’t said what will become of its Merlin cell interconnection technology or its Hyperion ion implant technology.
Why plummeting panel prices could mean industry instability
The U.S. market watched the prequel to this current panel price-slide in 2011 — and the question is why the sequel is happening again so soon.
New video interviews with GTM Research, EnergySage and SunShot Director Dr. Charlie Gay
pv magazine LIVE brings you more videos interviews from the 2016 Solar Power International trade show
Mission Solar Energy to close cell lines, lay off 87 employees
The bifacial PV maker will be closing 200 MW of cell capacity in Texas and sourcing cells from an un-named Asian PV cell maker.
Solaria files IP lawsuit against GCL over module production infringement
The Californian solar module developer alleges misappropriation by China’s GCL Solar over trade secrets pertaining to its patented production technique.
