As part of the Obama Administration’s blueprint for an American economy built to last, today U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced over $12 million to speed solar energy innovation from the lab to the marketplace through the Energy Department’s SunShot Incubator program. The funding will accelerate American innovation in solar energy and manufacturing by supporting [...]
IRVING, Texas–Fluor Corporation FLR-1.82% announced today that Arlington Valley Solar Energy II, LLC (AVSE II), a member of LS Power Group, has awarded the company a lump-sum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, as well as a separate contract for ongoing operations and maintenance services (O&M) for its new nominal 125-megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) facility [...]
WASHINGTON–An economic analysis prepared by The Brattle Group and released today finds that a 100% tariff on imported solar PV cells and modules from China would result in as many as 50,000 net lost jobs in the U.S. over the next three years. Furthermore, retaliatory tariffs placed on U.S. exports of polysilicon to China would [...]
MELBOURNE, Florida. National Solar Power today announced the company has entered into a solar farm development agreement with Liberty County, Florida. Under the agreement, National Solar Power will build an up to 100MW solar energy project on property in Liberty County—adjacent to the company’s Gadsden County, Florida solar farm project. The project, representing a $350 [...]
Certified PV installers to earn recertification credit through Zep Systems Installation and Design training Zep Solar Inc. (“Zep Solar”), developer of the first comprehensive platform for PV system installation, this week announced it has registered three new PV continuing education courses with the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners’ (NABCEP). NABCEP certified PV installers [...]
In a unique, first-of-its kind generation-to-manufacturing proposal, CPS Energy is entering into negotiations for a power purchase agreement from one of the nation’s largest solar projects. The project will mean new corporate headquarters and U.S. manufacturing operations for global companies in San Antonio. The offer from OCI Solar Power is expected to result in 400 [...]
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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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WASHINGTON DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the approval of two renewable energy projects that further advance President Obama’s initiative for a rapid and responsible move to utility-scale production of renewable energy. The projects – a solar plant in California and a wind farm in Oregon – will be built on [...]
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Matinee Energy Starts Construction of the Solar Power Plants in Benson, Arizona BENSON, Arizona. Ground breaking by Matinee Energy, Inc. at Benson, AZ site took place today for the construction of solar power plants. This site is designed to convert abundant sun-intensity into 120MW of electricity. Powerful global construction conglomerates support Matinee Energy efforts to [...]
HHV wins the India Semiconductor Association (ISA) Technovation Award The Bangalore-based Hind High Vacuum Company Private Limited (HHV) announced that it has won the India Semiconductor Association’s coveted Technovation Award in 2011 for indigenously developing an automated line for high volume production of 1m by 1m amorphous silicon thin film solar photovoltaic modules. The capacity [...]
CSP Today reveals the important steps Indian developers are taking to meet the JNNSM deadline in May 2013. In December 2010 the Phase I bidding process of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) in India was completed with more than sixty companies submitting bids. The reverse bidding mechanism that was introduced under the JNNSM [...]
Rockford Solar Partners, a renewable energy development joint venture between Elgin-based Wanxiang America and Chicago-based New Generation Power, received DOE and FAA environmental approval to proceed on an American-based commercial airport solar farm. The Company said the airport has over 70 prime acres to install the solar panels, and Rockford is well known for its [...]
United Solar, the global manufacturer of UNI-SOLAR(R) lightweight, flexible solar modules and a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. announced this week that Baker Renewable Energy has completed the installation of a 2.6 megawatt (MW) system containing its photovoltaic laminates on the roof of Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner jet assembly plant located in North [...]
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