Solar Millennium AG : Hannes Kuhn resigns from Supervisory Board

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This week, Mr. Hannes Kuhn informed the Executive Board of Solar Millennium AG that he will resign from the company’s Supervisory Board with immediate effect. Mr. Kuhn explained his decision in a personal statement, which is enclosed in this press release. A successor for Mr. Kuhn will be announced in due time. The Executive Board [...]

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Micro Concentrated Solar Power (MicroCSP) Technology Provider Wins Innovation Award

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SOPOGY WINS APEC BUSINESS INNOVATION AWARD FOR HONOLULU Sopogy, the world’s leading developer of micro concentrated solar power (MicroCSP) technologies, is the APEC Business Innovation Showcase winner for the City and County of Honolulu. The award gives Sopogy a platform to showcase its technologies during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Week conference in [...]

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TEi Equipment Selected for New Solar Thermal Power Plant in Desert Southwest

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Danvers, MA – Thermal Engineering International (USA) Inc. (TEi), located in Santa Fe Springs, CA, a subsidiary of Babcock Power Inc., based in Danvers, MA, and Struthers Wells, a division of (TEi), with offices located in Houston, TX and Warren, PA, have been awarded a contract to supply feedwater heaters, moisture separators and oil to [...]

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Steam Turbine and a Generator Order for a Nevada Thermosolar Plant

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Alstom has signed a contract with US firm Cobra Thermosolar Plants Inc. to supply a 125 MW steam turbine and a generator for a thermal solar plant in Tonopah, Nevada, USA using tower technology. This order confirms Alstom’s expertise in manufacturing steam turbine to be operated in solar plants. It will be delivered in September [...]

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Struthers Wells to Provide Solar Generation Equipment for Spanish Power Project

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Improving solar energy availability for parabolic trough technology Houston, TX – Struthers Wells, a division of Thermal Engineering International (USA) Inc. (TEi), a Babcock Power Inc. company with offices located in Houston, TX and Warren, PA, has been awarded a contract to design and supply two sets of solar steam generators complete with preheaters, kettle [...]

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India 50 Mw Concentrated Solar Power Plant Engineering Firm Selected

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Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Lauren-Jyoti, a Joint Venture of Lauren Engineers and Constructors and Jyoti Power Structures, recently signed an EPC contract with Godawari Green Energy Ltd., a division of Godawari Power and Ispat Limited, for the Design, Procurement and Construction of a 50 MW Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) facility located in Rajasthan, India. This project [...]

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Dispute between Solar Millenium and former Chairman of Executive Board May Have Resolution

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Supervisory Board of Solar Millennium welcomes settlement proposed by District Court of Nuremberg-Fürth Settlement negotiations restarted under court of first instance Chairman of the Supervisory Board Pflaumer “We welcome a court-moderated settlement and we will hold to the gentlemen’s agreement” Dr Werner Meyer, presiding judge of the second chamber of the District Court of Nuremberg-Fürth, [...]

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Something New is Cooking in the Concentrated Solar Power Industry

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The first solar thermal parabolic concentrator in the United States, which may be the first installation on a private residential home, is now operational at a residence on Martha’s Vineyard, MA. This may be the most powerful solar collector, for its size, ever installed on any residence in the world. For the past 40 years, [...]

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Solar Millenium Repays Investors of European and Spanish Parabolic Solar Thermal Plants

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Solar Millennium AG: Corporate bond repaid as scheduled by date of maturity The third Solar Millennium AG corporate bond amounting to € 20 million, which was issued on 22 August 2006, was repaid in full to investors yesterday. The bond had a fixed interest rate of 6.5% p.a. and contributed to the successful realization of [...]

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Bringing Concentrated Solar Parabolic Trough Technology to Brazil

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SkyFuel and Braxenergy sign agreement to cooperate in building concentrating solar power plants in Brazil using SkyFuel’s award‐winning parabolic trough technology. Parabolic trough maker SkyFuel and Brazilian energy developer Braxenergy have signed an agreement to cooperate in bringing concentrating solar power to the Brazilian market. While SkyFuel’s interest lies in the design and commercialization of [...]

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How Does a Solar Thermal Natural Gas Hybrid Plant Work?

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The illustration shows how one Solar Thermal Power company, Areva, is integrating concentrated parabolic solar thermal technology with natural gas steam to electric generators. This type of hybridization can also be done for coal or biomass fuels.   The combined-cycle equipment utilizes natural gas-fired combustion turbine generators (CTG), each with heat recovery steam generators (HRSG), and steam [...]

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New Concentrated Solar Thermal Reflector Coating to Be Showcased

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Duralux Solar Coatings, a show stopper at GlassBuild America 2011 The new range of solar coatings by the Fenzi Group is bound to steal the scene at the Atlanta-based show taking stage from 12 to 14 September. The complete range of Duralux Solar Coatings for solar mirrors, developed and tested to meet the highest durability [...]

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Debt Rating for Genesis Parabolic Trough Solar Project

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Fitch to Rate Genesis Solar, LLC’s Non-guaranteed Debt at ‘A-’; Neg and Guaranteed Debt at ‘AAA’ The Genesis Solar Project consists of two 125-MW (net) parabolic trough solar fields and corresponding power blocks. The project is located in Sonoran Desert, near Blythe, CA and is to be connected to the Southern California Edison (SCE) and [...]

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