Industry News

Data that Southwestern Public Service Co. used to justify the fee is "riddled with errors and unreliable,” wrote Carolyn Glick, a hearing officer at the state's Public Regulation Commission. […]

China is pushing back on President Donald Trump’s solar import tariff by filing a complaint at the World Trade Organization. The complaint, first reported by Reuters, questions the legality of the Section 201 tariffs, which the Trump administration imposed in January in the name of protecting the few remaining U.S. solar cell and module manufacturers. This is just the latest challenge to the tariff: China, the European Union, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea requested consultations […]

The Arizona Secretary of State's office determined more than 70% of the signatures were valid on a petition supporting the ballot, but opposition can still challenge individual signatures. […]

Thai firm B.Grimm Power Plc, through subsidiary B.Grimm Renewable Power 2 Limited, has purchased an 80% stake in a 257MW solar project in Vietnam from Truong Thanh Viet Nam Group (TTVN). […]

The decision bodes well for another major project stalled by a court challenge — the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. […]

South Korean-German solar manufacturer Hanwha Q Cells published its second-quarter financial results this week, revealing decreased net revenues and a net loss.&nbs […]

A new study of successful offshore wind transmission models will focus on large-scale projects across the Atlantic in order to help guide the state's procurements. […]

The country's total solar deployment is now just short of 24GW. […]

A new hydropower plant makeover in South Carolina shows how the US can leverage energy storage to squeeze more electricity out of renewable resources […]

Late on Tuesday China finally moved to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) regarding the United States' import tariffs on solar PV products which it believes violate WTO regulations […]

Oxfordshire-based multicrystalline wafer manufacturer PV Crystalox has settled its long-running, multi-million-euro contract dispute with a still unnamed customer. […]

Bifacial solar PV technology has long been a novelty. But pilots announced this summer — including a new Soltec bifacial tracker test center in California, plus a partnership between Array Technologies and a national lab in New Mexico — suggest bifacial is edging toward the mainstream. But manufacturers still need to dial back costs. Before bifacial modules are ready for widespread adoption, manufacturers say the industry has a year or two of data collection to […]

The Middle East and Africa is set to enjoy a year-on-year PV demand increase of 170%, according to GTM Research. […]

Trina Solar (Vietnam) Science & Technology, part of China-based Silicon Module Super League (SMSL) member Trina Solar, has secured a US$30 million credit facility with one of Vietnam's four largest commercial banks, VietinBank. […]

With world populations soaring, food production is set to see a bigger demand in our lifetime. But with land scarcity, overfishing, and threats from climate change, traditional animal farming is unsustainable, and organizations such as the United Nations believe it imperative to find new ways of sourcing food. Could the answer lie in insects […]