AEG Power Solutions Invests In Solar Equipment Manufacturing In Its 3W Power South-African Subsidiary The group builds a 200 MW capacity leading edge facility in Cape Town to back up this local development and provide premium solar inverters and monitoring equipment to the African market AEG Power Solutions, the energy technology and power electronics specialist, [...]
Financing of US solar projects is in the midst of a transformation, with new business models, new investors, and new financing vehicles gaining sway, according to new research by specialist research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance commissioned by Reznick Group.
SolFocus, Inc. joined with Mexican land and real estate developer Grupo Musa and U.S.-based energy developer Synergy Technologies, LLC to announce the launch of a landmark solar power plant in Baja California near Tecate, Mexico. The project, planned as a 450 megawatt total capacity, will be built in 50 megawatt tranches, with construction on the [...]
GE  today announced an agreement to supply 23 megawatts (MW) of advanced solar equipment to Invenergy. Invenergy will install the solar equipment at its Grand Ridge Solar project (“Grand Ridge Solarâ€), now under construction in Illinois. When completed in mid-2012, Grand Ridge Solar will be the largest solar farm in the Midwest. The Grand Ridge [...]
Amonix Inc., the leading designer and manufacturer of utility-scale concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) solar power systems, today announced their facilities in California and Nevada have won gold-level certification for their low environmental impact construction, and high energy and water efficiency from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. With the [...]
Kenyan solar power projects are designed to be available to individual consumers in rural areas, but funding remains scarce despite the market’s potential. Importing a finished solar pack capable of generating electricity with of a solar panel, batteries and an inverter costs $800 along with a $40 governmental inspection, but importing the components to manufacture [...]
ZBB Energy Corporation the leading developer of intelligent, renewable energy power platforms, announced this week a contract from a major utility to provide an energy system for use in a grid interactive (grid-tied) application utilizing the ZBB EnerSystem(TM) integrated power management and energy storage platform. A US investor-owned utility company has ordered the new ZBB EnerStore(TM) [...]
Sunvalley Solar, Inc. Files Patent Sunvalley Solar, Inc, a leading solar power technology and solar system integration company, announces today the filing of Patent Application Number 13198076 Titled ‘Networked Solar Panels and Related Methods’, which addresses challenges in the solar energy market. The current issue with solar energy lies in the increasing popularity of distributed [...]
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 [...]
The City of Palmdale proposes to construct, own, and operate the Palmdale Hybrid Power Plant (PHPP), an innovative 570 megawatt (MW) electric generating facility.   It combines the ultra-high efficiency clean burning natural gas fired combined cycle turbine technology (note: clean here does not refer to the amount of co2 it will produce.) with the state-of-the-art [...]
In 1980 the SRCC was incorporated as a non-profit organization whose primary purpose was the development and implementation of national rating standards and certification programs for solar energy equipment. The corporation is an independent third-party certification entity. It is unique in that it is the only national certification program established solely for solar thermal products. [...]
Solar Energy Initiatives, Inc. (Solar Energy Initiatives) has secured a letter of intent (LoI) to complete a solar PV power purchase agreement project with a Delaware Charter School. The project is expected to generate around $1.2 million in revenue. The undertaking is designed to utilize around 1,325 solar panels and is projected to reduce carbon [...]
Sandycroft School reduces water heating costs with the installation of MHS Boilers’ AURON DF solar heating system MHS Boilers’ direct flow vacuum tube solar collectors have been installed on a pitched roof at Sandycroft School in Deeside, in conjunction with three floor-standing high performance MHS Ultramax PB 120kW. The Flintshire primary school is achieving a [...]
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