American solar PV manufacturer First Solar announced this week that it would be raising its shipping guidance for Full Year 2018 after the Section 201 case increased demand and excluded the company’s Series 4 modules from the 30% tariff.
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Italian insurance company Generali Group has announced that it will not only divest €2 billion worth of coal investments but will increase its green investments by €3.5 billion by 2020.
Talking to investors in its Q4 2017 Earnings Call on February 22, First Solar CEO Mark Widmar floated the possibility of expanding the company’s US manufacturing capacity as a direct result of Donald Trump’s corporate tax reforms.
US-based solar manufacturer First Solar announced its Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2017 financial results late last week and it was a mixed bag of results, beating earnings expectations but missing on revenue while taking a multi-million dollar hit due to US tax reform.
American solar manufacturer SunPower has announced restructuring plans in the wake of Donald Trump’s imposition of a 30% tariff on solar modules and cells following a Section 201 trade case, which will see the company cut up to 250 jobs and incur restructuring costs of between $20 million and $30 million.
Austria filed a legal complaint with the European Court of Justice on Thursday against the European Union’s approval for the expansion of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant in Hungary, which already currently meets 40% of the country’s electricity needs.
Germany’s Federal Network Agency announced the winners this week from its first onshore wind and solar auctions for 2018, awarding more than 900 megawatts to over 100 separate projects.
A new report published this week from GTM Research shows that the amount of solar PV trackers shipped in 2017 increased 32% year-over-year, as California-based NEXTracker retains its top spot and accounts for a third of all trackers sold last year.
New analysis from British electrical power generation company Drax has revealed that the country generated 96 terawatt-hours of renewable electricity in 2017, enough power to supply the entire country — if the country in question were Britain in 1958.
