China-based Trina Solar, an integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products, has signed a sales agreement with Essco Wholesale Electric, the southwest U.S. subsidiary of Sonepar USA, a full-service commercial, utility and residential electric distributor with locations throughout the USA.

Dongying, China-based CNPV Solar Power SA, an integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products has entered into a long-term strategic partnership sales agreement with Volthaus GmbH, a south-German photovoltaic company specializing in rooftop and ground-based power plants.

Shenyang-based A-Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd., a provider of distributed power generation systems and a manufacturer of wind turbines, has received an Approval Certificate of Foreign Investment from China's National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Commerce to complete the acquisition of Evetech Company of Kyoto, Japan.

Baoding-based photovoltaic product manufacturer Yingli Green has received approval from China's Ministry of Science and Technology to establish the first national-level key laboratory in the field of PV technology development.

Baoding, China-based Yingli Green Energy Holding Company has signed five sales agreements with customers in Spain for a total of 30 megawatts of photovoltaic modules.

Baoding-based Yingli Green Energy Holding Company, a vertically integrated photovoltaic product manufacturer, has followed up its recent PV order from Germany with an order for a further 130 MW of PV modules.

Chinese integrated photovoltaic product manufacturer, Yingli Green Energy Holding Company, has announced that its "Yingli Solar" brand modules have attained the "Power Controlled" certification from the Germany-based TUV Rheinland Group.

China-based solar energy company, Suntech Power Holdings, has announced at the U.S.-China Green Tech Summit that its first U.S. manufacturing plant would be located in the Greater Phoenix, Arizona area.

U.S.-based Applied Materials recently held a ceremony in Xi'an in Shaanxi province to celebrate the establishment of a solar power technology center.

The China-based integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products, Trina Solar, has entered into a sales agreement with Proinso, a leading distributor of solar photovoltaic equipment and a specialist in engineering services in Europe.