September 30 2015

SoftBank Unit to Build 14MW Solar Power Station North of Tokyo

The plant will start operations in December 2016 and is expected to generate enough electricity for about 3,900 homes, SB Energy said in a statement Thursday. No financial terms were mentioned.

September 30 2015

Yingli to Restructure Payments for Mid-Term Notes Due Oct. 13

The notes were issued by Tianwei Yingli as five-year unsecured notes, according to a statement by Yingli today.

September 29 2015

Liebreich and Blanchard: Thinking about energy – the lure of laziness

By Michael Liebreich, Chairman of the Advisory Board and Charles Blanchard, Head of Gas Analysis Bloomberg New Energy Finance   Forecasting oil prices, as I have noted before, is hard. You build huge data sets of supply curves and stocks; you create complicated demand models; you overlay geopolitical analysis at the deepest level of granularity you […]

September 28 2015

Mitsubishi UFJ, Partners to Provide 15.8 Bln Yen Loans for Solar

The 77 Bank, based in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, will provide 6.8 billion yen ($57 million) of the 15.8 billion yen in loans, the bank said in a statement Monday. Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and three other banks will supply the remainder, according to the statement.

September 15 2015

How extending the ITC would affect US solar build

Under current policy, the US can expect 73GW of solar PV online by year-end 2022. A pending reduction of the 30% investment tax credit (ITC) in 2017 will significantly reduce build rates. We analyse the effects of a potential five-year extension.

September 15 2015

How extending the investment tax credit would affect U.S. solar build

The Investment Tax Credit (ITC) is the solar industry’s most important public policy. As such, SEIA commissioned an independent analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance to analyse the impact of the ITC on the industry – and what the U.S. stands to lose if Congress lets this policy expire in 2016. The BNEF analysis is […]

September 11 2015

Kyocera, Century Tokyo to Build 29 Megawatt Solar Power Station

The site includes a former golf course and Kyocera will supply panels for the station, expected to start operating running in March 2018, Kyocera said Thursday in a statement.

September 9 2015

Cosmo Oil, Showa Shell Complete 8MW Solar-Power Plant in Japan

The plant in Kanagawa prefecture began operations on July 28, according to a statement posted on Showa Shell’s website Wednesday.

September 1 2015

Solar Frontier to Supply Panels for 26MW Solar Project in US

The Tokyo-based company signed a supply agreement with a California-based solar equipment supplier and began the first of a series of shipments in late August, it said in a statement Tuesday, without specifying the supplier.

August 30 2015

Solar Shipments in Japan Drop First Time Since 2012 Incentives

It’s the first year-on-year decline for shipments of solar products since the October-December period in 2012, according to the Japan Photovoltaic Energy Association, which released the data on Monday.

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