AU Optronics Corporation recently announced it has completed the carbon footprint verification on EcoDuo PM220P00, a multi-crystalline photovoltaic module, according to the international carbon footprint standard PAS2050.

News from the Taiwan Affairs Office of Jiangxi province is that Taiflex Scientific Company from Taiwan will invest CNY3 billion in Xinyu, Jiangxi, to build a solar panel production line with a capacity of 500 megawatts.

China's Ministry of Education is piloting an initiative known as the Blue Fire Program in Changshu, Jiangsu province.

News from the 2009 Working Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is that CAS has formally initiated a solar power action program.

A solar power station, reportedly the largest in China, will be built up in the Chadam Basin, Qinghai Province in 2009.

The International Financing Corporation is offering financing of USD136 million for ENN Solar Energy, part of the Chinese XinAo Group, in an effort to help drive down global prices for solar-generated electricity.

ET Solar Group Corp., a Nanjing-based vertically integrated manufacturer of photovoltaic products with manufacturing facilities located in Taizhou, China, has announced that it has donated multiple PV systems to eight remote Tibetan villages.