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Solar corporate financing boosted globally by 43 percent in Q3 to $3.2 billion
Mercom Capital Group, llc, an international tidy power communications as well as speaking with company, launched its report on financing as well as merging and purchase (M&A) task for the solar market in the third quarter (Q3) and also the first nine months (9M) of 2020. Appropriately, corporate financing worldwide (consisting of financial backing, private equity, public market, and debt funding) in the solar industry in Q3 2020 pertained to $3.2 billion, compared to $2.3 billion in Q2, a 43 percent boost QoQ (quarter over quarter). Financing was also higher by 8 percent year-over-year (YoY) contrasted to the same quarter last year.
Nov 27, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Mercom Capital Group, Raj Prabhu
Penso Power and also Luminous Energy get green light for 350MW battery storage asset
Welbar Energy Storage joint venture - composed of Penso Power and Luminous Energy-- have actually protected planning permission for a 350MW connection capacity battery storage development in North Warwickshire.
May 4, 2022 // Storage, UK, Europe, luminous energy, Penso Power, Richard Thwaites, David Bryson
Environment-friendly solvent for a 16.7% perovskite solar cell
Researchers in Germany aimed to get rid of making use of harmful solvents in the manufacturing of perovskite solar cells, changing them with a much more environmentally worldly called dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) which has so far shown difficult to integrate right into processes appropriate for large-scale production.
Jul 14, 2022 // Technology, Germany, Europe, solar cell, perovskite, Jan-Philipp Becker
Good Energy Acquires JPS Renewable Energy, Expands Solar Portfolio
Good Energy Group strengthens its position as the UK's top solar specialist with the acquisition of JPS Renewable Energy, expanding its market share and product offerings.
Feb 12, 2024 // Markets & Finance News, UK, Europe, Good Energy
Togo's Solar Leap: €26.5M Boost for Green Energy
Empowering Togo: A €61M solar project lights up Sokodé, boosting renewable energy and cutting CO₂ emissions by 13.6K tons annually.
May 13, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Africa, Togo, PV Power Plant
Inox Clean Energy Buys Skypower, Adds 50-MW Indian Solar Portfolio
INOXGFL’s Inox Clean Energy acquires Skypower Solar India for ₹265 crore, gaining a 50-MW solar asset in Madhya Pradesh backed by a 25-year state PPA.
Jun 30, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, India, Asia, INOXGFL, Inox Clean Energy
JA Solar's founder as well as chairman detained and also under examination in China
The founder and also chairman of 'Solar Module Super League' (SMSL) member Jin Baofang has actually been apprehended by local government authorities in Pingdu City, Shandong Province, China.
Nov 9, 2020 // Manufacturing News, China, JA Solar, pv modules, c-si manufacturing, Asia, finance, Jin Baofang
Thinner silicon wafer is urgent question again
Lower prices for polycrystalline silicon have turned interest from poly-Si consumption minimization. However, the latest study shows that, with account to modern technologies, slimming wafers can be crucial for cost reduction and is worth attention again.
Jan 28, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, China, Asia, silicon, North America, polycrystalline
Majuperak Enters JVA for Solar Energy Project in Malaysia
Malaysian financial investment holding firm Majuperak Holdings Berhad (MHB) has actually become part of a joint endeavor contract (JVA) with United Solar Energy to collectively venture right into the solar photovoltaic (PV) creating system project utilizing internet power metering system in the state of Perak in Malaysia.
Apr 6, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Malaysia, Asia, Renewable Energy, International, Majuperak Energy Resources, Solar Project, United Solar Energy
174 Power Global bags funding for utility-scale solar in Texas
174 Power Global has wrapped up construction financing for the US$210 million, 150MW first phase of its solar farm in Ector County, northwest Texas, clinching funding from a group of global banks.
Sep 12, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Texas, PV plants, North America, 174 power global, credit agricole corporate and investment bank, korea development bank, Q CELL modules
Carbon nanotubes provide a boost to perovskite solar
Scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a carbon nanotube which forms a strong junction with a lead-halide perovskite, improving performance and stability.
Oct 21, 2019 // Technology, Tokyo, Carbon nanotubes, Keiko Waki
EDF acquires Pivot and aims at boosting its EV charging and storage activity
France-based EDF Group has acquired the British company Pivot Power. The UK firm has built the storage battery systems of 2 gigawatt power throughout Great Britain.
Nov 6, 2019 // Storage, France, UK, Europe, EDF Group, Pivot Power
Foresight bags maiden EDF PPA deal for Spanish project
Solar investor Foresight has penned a 10-year power purchase agreement with EDF Trading for a 50MW project in Spain.
Dec 19, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, PPA, EDF, Europe, subsidy-free, foresight froup, Carlos Rey, Philipp Büssenschütt
Cypark confirms solar power project win in Marang
Cypark Resources Bhd, together with its consortium partner Impian Bumiria Sdn Bhd, has won a competitive bid to develop a large scale solar photovoltaic (LSSPV) plant of 100 megawatts of alternating current (MWac) in Marang, Terengganu.
Dec 24, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Malaysia, Asia, Cypark Resources Bhd, Energy Commission Malaysia
AES to merge United States growth arm with sPower, creating 12GW US tidy energy pipeline
AES Corporation is to merge its US-facing clean power growth company with independent power producer sPower, producing a platform with a 12GW project pipe in the country.
Nov 18, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, IPP, sPower, North America, AES, Andrés Gluski









