Solar panels on an office building in the centre of Brussels caught fire on Tuesday, according to the city’s fire brigade and local media. The fire happened around 2pm in…

Tunisia has signed agreements with Norway and Japan to build solar power plants in the regions of Sidi Bouzid, in the centre of the country, and Tozeur in the west. Together, they will have an output of 100MW.

Bechtel has won a contract to build a 360MW solar power plant in Calhoun County, Michigan, from Chicago-based renewables developer Hecate Energy. The facility, called Sunfish Solar 2, will have…

A consortium led by the World Bank has agreed to lend $139m to Namibia to prepare its electricity grid for a surge in renewable power generation, Afrik 21 reports.

Japanese solar power company Advantec yesterday signed an agreement in principle to supply photovoltaic panels to the Philippines, Nikkei Aisa reports. The immediate goal is to add panels to the…

A roof of a tyre factory in Thailand is to be fitted with some 100,000 sq m of solar panels, making it the world’s largest array on a single facility.

Ferrovial has agreed to invest €75m in building two solar power plants in Andalusia with a total installed capacity of around 100MWp.

It’s a small step, but it could start an incredible journey. Today, the ministerial council of the European Space Agency (ESA) said it would proceed with a feasibility study into…

The French government will legislate to require car parks with 80 or more spaces to install solar panels in a move it says could generate up to 11GW of electricity.…

Swedish energy utility Vattenfall has revealed plans to install solar panels on public land along the A6 motorway near the Dutch city of Almere, just outside Amsterdam, PV Magazine reports.…