China Sunergy opened a factory in Istanbul with Turkish partner Seul Energy Investment Corp. as it seeks to expand access to European customers. China Sunergy will make solar modules in a 150-megawatt production line starting next month, it said yesterday in a statement. A 100-megawatt solar-cell facility is also being built and is due to start in March, while 200 megawatts of production capacity will be mo ...

India is on the cusp of a solar energy revolution. The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) kick-started the development of large, mega-watt scale, solar plants. In combination with the Gujarat solar power programme, JNNSM has resulted in an installed capacity of 1047 MW as on November 31, 2012. What was crucial for the success of phase-I (2010-13) of the JNNSM was a realistic price discovery thr ...

China's solar problems stem from rapid expansion over the past decade and issues with the U.S. and Europe In response to troubles with its solar panel manufacturing, China is trying to get producers to merge. Beijing, in particular, is facing problems with its solar panel industry and plans to fix it by reducing government support for the industry, encouraging mergers and blocking local leaders from support ...

SMA Solar Technology, Germany’s biggest solar company by market value, agreed to buy a majority stake in Jiangsu Zeversolar New Energy Co. to gain access to the Chinese market. SMA Solar will get 72.5 percent of the inverter maker in a deal that gives Zeversolar an enterprise value of 319 million yuan ($51 million), Niestetal-based SMA said in a statement. The agreement is subject to Chinese regulatory appr ...

ReneSola Ltd, a leading global manufacturer of solar photovoltaic ("PV") modules and wafers, today announced that it has agreed to ship 4.3 megawatts ("MW") of its high-quality solar modules to E.ON Climate & Renewables GmbH ("E.ON Climate & Renewables"), an award-winning unit responsible for industrial-scale renewable activities within E.ON AG ("E.ON"), one of the world's largest investor-owned pow ...

SunPower Corporation announced that it will supply Toshiba with its new world-record efficiency solar panel beginning in December, extending Toshiba's solar efficiency leadership in the Japanese residential market. SunPower's new E20/250NE solar panel features a 20.1 percent efficiency rating delivering 250 watts per 72-cell module, and will be marketed exclusively by Toshiba in the Japanese homes segment. ...

JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd a leading global solar power product manufacturer, announced that JinkoSolar (Switzerland) AG, its Swiss subsidiary, has entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with the Guangdong Branch of China Development Bank ("CDB"), pursuant to which CDB intends to provide financing cooperation to JinkoSolar (Switzerland) AG of an aggregate amount up to US$ 1 billion over a five-year ...

Located about 90 miles east of San Diego in California's Imperial County, the project is expected to start commercial operation in the middle of 2014. Spread over an area of 1,600 acres, it will be among the largest solar projects in the world. Yingli was a major supplier for China’s largest solar project, the Huanghe 200MW solar farm built in Qinghai province at the end of 2011. It is also aiming to be a k ...

China's solar panel producers embattled by heavy duties from anti-dumping probes in both the United States and Europe are focusing on the domestic downstream power generation sector to offset their export losses. The LDK Solar Co., one of the world's largest manufacturers of solar wafers, has seen engines in its workshops in Xinyu, East China's Jiangxi Province, roar again. This month, the company has obtai ...

China's Ministry of Commerce said it had launched an investigation Monday to determine whether retroactive tariffs should be levied on polysilicon imports from the U.S, the European Union and South Korea. The move comes after the ministry announced anti-dumping and anti-subsidy probes into polysilicon imports from these regions earlier this year and amid an escalating battle between China and its trading pa ...