Tenaska Closes Commercial Financing for Imperial Solar Energy Center South

OMAHA, Nebraska- Tenaska, one of the largest independent energy companies in the United States, today announced that it has closed financing for Imperial Solar Energy Center South, a utility-scale photovoltaic solar generating plant in southern California. The project represents Tenaska’s expansion into solar power generation and is the first of what is expected to be [...]

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Canadian Solar Extends LightSource Partnership with Four New Regional Projects

Canadian Solar, one of the world’s largest solar companies, today announced that it has been working with leading solar project developer, Lightsource Renewable Energy Limited, in the completion of four solar power plants throughout England. The new ground-mounted PV plants were built in Cornwall (Bodmin), Lincolnshire (Spalding) and Somerset (Taunton), with a combined capacity of [...]

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Solar Concentrating Panels, Waste Heat Recovery and PV planned for Desert Hot Springs California

GDT Tek today announced that escrow has closed on 109 acres of prime solar farm property in Desert Hot Springs (DHS), CA. GDT Tek has implemented a plan to develop the DHS property with a combination of traditional PV commercial solar panels and also plans to use its own waste heat to electricity technology combined [...]

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JA Solar’s PV Testing Laboratory Joins Intertek’s Global “Satellite Program”

JA Solar Holdings Co, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-performance solar cells and solar power products, has announced that it has joined Intertek’s “Satellite Program.” A strategic cooperation MOU was also signed between Intertek and JA Solar to strengthen cooperation in the fields of quality, safety and ecology. Intertek’s “Satellite Program” is a [...]

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Chinese Solar Stocks on the Upswing Despite Tariff Threats From U.S.

The Paragon Report Provides Equity Research on JA Solar & Trina Solar Solar stocks have been on an amazing run in 2012. The Guggenheim Solar ETF is up more than 40 percent year to date as the industry continues to post impressive growth. According to Kirk Spano, founder and owner of Bluemound Asset Management, LLC, [...]

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Envision Solar Announces Debt Reduction

Continued Management Results in Debt Reduction and Note Re-Negotiation Envision Solar International, Inc., a leading sustainable infrastructure product designer and developer, today announced that the company was successful in both reducing and renegotiating the company’s debt positions at the end of 2011. Envision Solar was able to extend, with similar or more favorable terms, approximately [...]

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BioSolar Pursuing Opportunity to Capture Larger Market Share

Teaming with strategic partners will allow the company to increase volume and reduce the cost of BioBacksheet for solar manufacturers Santa Clarita, CA . BioSolar, Inc, developer of a breakthrough technology to produce bio-based materials from renewable plant sources that reduce the cost of photovoltaic (PV) solar modules, this week reported that the company intends to pursue [...]

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Solar Stocks on the Upswing as Emerging Markets Drive Demand

NEW YORK, NY- Solar stocks have been on an impressive run with the Guggenheim Solar ETF, which consists of approximately 25 stocks selected based on the relative importance of solar power within the Company’s business model, up roughly 19 percent in the month of January. Aaron Chew, a Maxim Group LLC analyst in New York [...]

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Privately Owned Solar Energy Facility will Help New Jersey Meet RPS Goal and Create Local Jobs

SPI Solar, a leading vertically integrated photovoltaic (“PV”) solar developer and engineering, procurement and construction (“EPC”) services provider, announced today that it has been awarded an EPC contract by Seashore Solar Development, LLC (“Seashore Solar”), a New Jersey-based solar development company. As EPC contractor, SPI will design, engineer and construct an 11.3 megawatt fixed ground [...]

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JA Solar Announces 19 MW PV Module Supply Agreement With Solarhybrid for Utility Scale Solar Power Project in Germany

JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-performance solar cells and solar power products, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Solarhybrid AG (Frankfurt:SHL) (“Solarhybrid”), a Germany-based project developer and general contractor for turn-key utility-scale solar power projects, to supply 19 MW of solar modules to Solarhybrid’s [...]

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Google Invests in Four Solar Energy Generating Plants. Sacremento California

Google, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (together with its affiliates, “KKR”), and Recurrent Energy today announced an investment in a portfolio of solar photovoltaic (PV) facilities serving the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD). The portfolio of projects is financed with a combination of debt and equity, which includes a significant equity investment from Google [...]

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Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit pushes start button at first solar thermal power plant in Thailand built with Solarlite’s unique technology

Southeast Asia’s the first solar thermal parabolic trough plant built with Solarlite’s unique technology in Southeast Asia was opened in Huaykrachao, which is located in the Thai province of Kanchanaburi. Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister, Yongyuth Wichaidit, filled in for hospitalized Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to give a speech at the opening of the 5 MW [...]

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Wine Company Goes Green with Solar Energy

Royal Wine Corp. (RWC) announced today the completion of a solar power system on the roof of its corporate headquarters and warehouse facility located in Bayonne, New Jersey. RWC is a leading specialty wine producer in New York and California, as well as an importer and distributor, and is also the parent company of Kedem [...]

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