Energy Diversification with Low Cost Solar Power. Investment in Concentrated Solar Technology

SolFocus and Vision Electro Mechanical Company to Build the Largest Solar Power Plant of its Kind in Saudi Arabia Project is milestone for the commercialization of concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) technology in the Middle East Bahra, Saudi Arabia and Mountain View, Calif., October 25, 2010 – SolFocus, the leading developer of Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) solar systems, [...]

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Yingli Green Energy Invests in 700 Mwatt of Solar PV Manufacturing Capacity

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, a leading solar energy company and one of the world’s largest vertically integrated photovoltaic manufacturers, which markets its products under the brand “Yingli Solar,” this week  announced its new 700 MW capacity expansion projects to be located at Baoding headquarters and in Hainan province. Yingli Green Energy plans to [...]

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Commercial & Residential Solar Energy Installation Industry – Some Companies Growing Quickly

Inc. magazine has ranked Mercury Solar Systems as the 10th fastest growing energy company on its exclusive Inc. 500 ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. Mercury is one of the top solar integrators on the East Coast having completed over 1,000 installations totaling 12MW across its six offices. The Inc. 500 acknowledgement is testament [...]

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Harnessing the Renewable Energy Potential of Nevada for Home Owners and Consumers

NV Energy, Inc. and Great Basin Transmission, LLC, an affiliate of LS Power, have announced the signing of a definitive agreement to jointly construct and own a 500 kilovolt transmission line in Nevada. According to the agreement, NV Energy will own 25 percent of the One Nevada Transmission Line (ON Line) and purchase Great Basin’s [...]

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Michigan Solar ThinFilm PV Manufacturing Shifting Green Jobs to Mexico

Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (ECD) (Nasdaq:ENER), the leading global manufacturer of thin-film flexible solar laminate products for the building-integrated and commercial rooftop markets, today announced that it is realigning solar manufacturing capacity in its United Solar business among its existing facilities as part of its overall cost reduction activities. Effective in the fall of 2010, [...]

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AMG affiliate Timminco to form joint venture with Dow Corning at Becancour Silicon Metal Facilities

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V.’s (“AMG”, EURONEXT AMSTERDAM: “AMG”) publicly listed affiliate, Timminco Limited (“Timminco”) /quotes/comstock/11t!e:tim (CA:TIM 0.57, 0.00, 0.00%) announced today that it has agreed to form a joint venture with Dow Corning Corporation (“Dow Corning”) at its silicon metal production facilities in Becancour, Quebec. Dow Corning will acquire a 49% equity [...]

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HelioTrough wins Concentrated Solar Power Innovation Catagory

At the end of June the participants of the 4th Concentrated Solar Power Conference in San Francisco voted for HelioTrough, the Solar Millennium Group’s newest collector generation, for the award in the “CPS Innovation” category. The HelioTrough collector, which was developed by Flagsol GmbH, the joint venture between Solar Millennium AG and Ferrostaal AG, together [...]

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U.S. Consumers Given a Solar Hot Water Alternative to Gas or Electric

The cleantech startup company Sunnovations Inc. (McLean, Virginia), this month announced the commercial availability of its “breakthrough” solar hot water system for American homes. Solar hot water, a clean and free power source, is believed to be an incredibly underexploited technology in the United States, despite the fact that homeowners could save up to 75 [...]

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Foster Wheeler to Provide Solar Steam Generators to Two Torresol Energy Solar Thermal Plants

Foster Wheeler AG (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract to design, supply and provide site advisory services for two sets of solar steam generators (preheaters, kettle type evaporators, superheaters and reheaters) as well as low pressure and high pressure feedwater heaters. The contract was [...]

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Solar Thermal Hot Water Systems for US Home Owners

Cleantech startup Sunnovations Inc. today announced the commercial availability of what it is describing as its breakthrough solar hot water system for American homes. Solar hot water, a clean and free power source, is an incredibly underexploited technology in the US, despite the fact that homeowners can save up to 75% on their water heating [...]

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Opel Solar CEO sees Bright Future for Industrial Scale Solar Power Systems

Despite an uneven economic recovery and the lingering effects of the global recession on virtually every industry around the world, Leon (Lee) M. Pierhal, Chief Executive Officer of OPEL Solar, Inc., a leading global supplier of high concentration photovoltaic (“HCPV”) solar panels and other solar products, including utility scale ground-based tracker systems and unique light [...]

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