Envision Energy, thus far best known for producing wind turbines, is among a number of players that are blazing a path toward the certainty required to attract much-needed capital. 

Its Apollo platform, introduced more than a year ago, monitors everything from system design to construction and operation standards.

Such matters are taken for granted in many other solar markets, but not in China, where a lack of transparency on system data is a very real obstacle to the financing of projects. 

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