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Shanghai, China - JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. announced its unaudited financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2013.

Bayreuth, Germany - A study carried out by Offshore Management Resources warns of annual idle costs of up to 1 billion euros when connecting offshore wind turbines in the North Sea.

Hamburg - Siemens Energy has been awarded an onshore wind power order for the Sere wind power plant on the west coast of South Africa.

San Jose, USA - SunPower Corp. announced financial guidance for fiscal year 2013.

Niestetal, Germany - In the first quarter of 2013, SMA Solar Technology AG sold PV inverters with an output of 1.2 gigawatts (Q1 2012: 1.9 GW) and generated sales of €212.3 million (Q1 2012: €405 million).

Düsseldorf & Remscheid, Germany – Remscheid-based heating, ventilation and air-conditioning technology specialist Vaillant Group grew further in the financial year 2012.

Madrid, Spain - In the month of April 2013, power generation from renewable energy sources in Spain reached an all-time record representing 54 per cent of electricity production.

Washington, USA - On May 9 2013, the daily mean concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time since measurements began in 1958.

Aarhus, Denmark - Vestas maintains its full-year guidance and the focus on cost reductions, low investments and increased capacity utilisation continues.

Munich - In their new study entitled "Offshore Wind Toward 2020 – On the Pathway to Cost Competitiveness", the experts at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants state that they expect Europe to have installed offshore capacity of 40 GW by 2020.

Bilbao & Madrid, Spain – Gamesa has sold a wind farm development in Mexico with a future total installed capacity of 70 MW to Iberdrola.

Tempe, USA - First Solar, Inc. announced financial results for the first quarter of 2013.

Mannheim, Germany - CropEnergies AG will propose to the annual general meeting on 30 July 2013 that the dividend be increased to EUR 0.20 (previous year: 0.18) per share and that a further EUR 0.06, i.e. a total of EUR 0.26 (0.18) per share, be paid out on account of the particularly good earnings situation in the 2012/13 financial year.

Reno, USA - Ormat Technologies announced that it reached commercial operation of Plant 2 in the Olkaria III complex in Naivasha, Kenya, increasing the company’s total generating capacity by 36 MW to 611 MW worldwide.

Zurich, Switzerland – ABB has won an order worth around $25 million to supply electrical and control systems for a new 75 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic (PV) power plant in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

London - The UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) and Masdar, Abu Dhabi's state-backed renewable energy company, have confirmed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore project investment opportunities in the UK's clean energy sector.

Wuxi, China – The PV-company Suntech Power, which is in bankruptcy proceedings and a process of restructuring, announced preliminary financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2012.

Brussels, Belgium - The European Commission initiated an anti-subsidy investigation into imports of solar glass from China.

Zamudio, Spain - Gamesa ended the first quarter of 2013 with 7 million euro in attributable profit, i.e. the company is back in the black, in line with its Business Plan 2013-2015.

Aarhus, Denmark - Vestas ships first ever V112-3.0 MW offshore turbines to the 48 MW Kaarehamn project in Sweden.

Zamudio, Spain – Gamesa has signed an agreement with Consórcio Morrinhos to supply 150 MW of wind energy capacity in Brazil.

Aarhus, Denmark - Vestas releases to the market two new variants of its workhorse 2 MW platform – the V100-2.0 MW and the V110-2.0 MW.

Baoding, China - Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Yingli Energy (China) Company Limited, signs two loan agreements with China Development Bank (CDB) with an aggregate of US$ 165 million.

London/New York – New research by analysts at Bloomberg New Energy Finance show that annual investment in new renewable power capacity is set to rise by anywhere from two and a half times to more than four and a half times between now and 2030.

Lohne, Germany – EnviTec Biogas AG reports its preliminary figures for the financial year 2012.