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 [...]
RUBENIUS, an energy services company based in the United Arab Emirates, says it intends to build an energy-storage facility based on sodium-sulfur battery technology on a 345-acre site the company recently purchased in Baja California, Mexico. The cost of the facility is estimated to exceed $4 billion. The company says it will offer the energy [...]
DEK Solar used the recent EU PVSEC exhibition in Valencia to unveil the results of new research into the Print-on-Print (PoP) technique, an approach that improves cell efficiencies, can be dropped into mainstream commercial production and can reduce the costs of production. Renowned alternative energies expert at DEK Solar, Tom Falcon has spent a large [...]
Enbridge Inc. and First Solar, Inc. have completed the expansion of the Sarnia Solar Project from 20 megawatts of capacity to 80 megawatts (MW) making it the largest operating photovoltaic facility in the world. To celebrate this milestone, Enbridge will hold a Grand Opening celebration in Sarnia, Ontario. Enbridge and First Solar representatives along with [...]
Arizona Public Service Company’s drive to develop more solar energy took another step forward today with the announcement of an 18-megawatt solar photovoltaic plant to be located 70 miles southwest of Phoenix in Gila Bend. The plant will be owned by APS and sited in the town’s new Solar Overlay Zone. The municipality has designated [...]
Powered Entirely from the Sun’s Energy A solar thermal power plant in principle works no differently than a conventional steam power plant. However, there is one important difference. No harm is done to the environment by burning coal, oil, natural gas or by splitting uranium to produce steam. There are no byproducts to store or [...]
Pittsburgh-based PPG Industries has formed the PPG Solar Performance Group, which the company says will focus on the continuous development and commercialization of glass and coatings technologies for the solar power industry. Global Director Scott Follet, Solar Segment Manager for North America and Europe Patrick Kelly, and PPG research and development professionals will lead a [...]
LDK Solar Co. Ltd., a manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers and PV products, says it has expanded its vertical manufacturing by completing the installation and trial runs of the first production line of solar cells in its newly installed manufacturing facility in Xinyu City, China. The new solar cell manufacturing line currently has an annualized [...]
Austrian OEM collector manufacturer Greenonetec runs four robots at its new assembly line for tray collectors supported by seven workers. With a cycle time of around one minute, the highly automated production line is one of the fastest in the world. The high line speed is achieved by using four robots and a high degree [...]
WINDSOR, CO – Ice Energy, a leading provider of advanced energy storage and smart grid solutions to the electric utility industry, today announced that its Ice Bear energy storage systems have successfully recorded more than five million hours of cumulative field run time. Since 2005, the company and its utility partners have installed and operated [...]
PORTLAND, Ind. Fort Recovery Construction & Equipment, LLC announced plans to expand its SolarAg division, creating up to 120 new jobs by 2013. Founded in 2003, Fort Recovery Construction & Equipment designs agricultural buildings and equipment. In late 2009 it launched SolarAg to develop and produce solar collectors and equipment. The company plans to invest [...]
Ford Motor Company is teaming with Detroit Edison, Xtreme Power and the state of Michigan to establish one of the largest solar power generation systems in the state at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant. The renewable energy captured by the project’s primary solar energy system will help power the production of fuel-efficient small cars, including Ford’s [...]
While 42 million solar thermal systems have been installed worldwide, the U.S. has been slow to adopt this technology. However, the U.S. sentiment is changing. As the nation’s focus on renewable energy continues to grow exponentially, the expectation is that so too will the adoption of solar thermal technology (which include solar air and water [...]
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