1) Yingli Energy gets a $165 million loan from China Development Bank (CDB) for working capital and other purposes (LDK and Renesola have got loans from CDB in the past 3 months as well)
2) CIGs startup Solopower goes bust follows the Solyndra way (Solopower had picked up employees from bankrupt Solyndra earlier)
3) Even as solarworld fights for its own survival, CEO Asbeck wants to buy Bosch’s solar cell capacity
4) India’s leading private utility Tata Power will build a 28.8 MW plant to meet its RPO obligations
5) The US Solar Industry employs ~120000 people
7) Sunedison to use Foxconn to make its Silvantis solar modules
8) Solarworld reports a gargantuan >500 million euro loss for 2012