1) India’s Welspun Energy becomes the No.1 solar developer – expanding aggressively
2) Puerto Rice building a monster $265 mm solar farm
3) Spain sees solar retail grid parity installations
4) Japanese Steel Maker JFE joins in the Japanese solar booms with 6 solar farms
5) Motech sees strong Q412 solar module demand from Japan and USA
6) LDK makes more money from contract termination with Sumitomo than for a 20% stake
7) China preemptively trying to stop European solar trade action by going to WTO
8) Gestamp building 25 MW solar farm in boom state Tamil Nade signing private PPAs (Read out Tamil Nadu solar policy to see why it so hot)
9) Another Japanese company exits solar manufacturing (Sumco exited solar wafers some time ago as well, Sharp has already gotten out of most solar production)