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 [...]
Istanbul – MimtaSolar has been named “Selected Sales Partner” and authorized for the distribution and after sales service of photovoltaic products manufactured by Danfoss Solar. The informal cooperation that started between the two companies in 2010 regarding grid connected photovoltaic systems has thus been formalized. One of the largest industrial groups in Denmark, Danfoss Group [...]
SANDVIKA, Norway. REC modules were selected for a 60MW module supplier agreement with the German project developer GP JOULE for solar power plant installations in France and Germany. REC will supply 60MW for free field solar power plants managed by the project developer GP JOULE. REC Peak Energy Series Modules will be installed on a [...]
ReneSola Ltd, a leading global manufacturer of solar products, this week announced the completion and grid connection of the Company’s 20 megawatt (“MW”) solar power plant in Wulan County in Qinghai, China with the Company providing all 20 MW of solar modules. The solar power plant is the first of its kind for ReneSola. Mr. [...]
Renewvia Energy Corporation, a provider of solar power systems for owners of investment-grade commercial properties, announced that it has completed a 281 kilowatt (kW) solar power system at Casa Carranza, a Mesa, Ariz. apartment complex. The grid-connected photovoltaic solar electrical system is currently providing 25 percent of power to the 300-unit apartment complex, resulting in [...]
AKOTRACE®, PART OF GEMASOLAR SUCCESS We take a break analyzing ways to optimize the performance of a CSP plant to talk instead about a real life example: Gemasolar. The magnificent plant has been recently officially inaugurated as the first commercial scale solar power plant capable of generating electricity all day and night. It has 15 [...]
The joint venture of SolarReserve, a U.S. developer of utility-scale solar power projects, the Kensani Group, an experienced empowered infrastructure player in the Southern African market, and Intikon Energy, a South African developer of renewable energy projects, announced this week that the South Africa Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the consortium preferred bidder status for [...]
Canadian Solar, one of the world’s largest solar companies, today announced that the company has supplied solar modules for a 9 MW solar power plant by OPDE Group in Spain. The solar system is scheduled for commissioning in the fourth quarter of 2011. With this project, Canadian Solar continues to extend its presence in Southern [...]
The World Bank this week approved $297 million in loans to Morocco to help finance the Ouarzazate Concentrated Solar Power Plant Project, taking a historic step toward realizing one of the first large-scale plants of this kind in North Africa to exploit the region’s vast solar energy resources. With this approval from the Bank’s Board [...]
Project is Expected to Save $13 Million in Electricity Costs Over 20 Years SunPower Corp this week announced that the company has begun designs for a 13.78-megawatt (DC) solar photovoltaic (PV) power system at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in California and intends to break ground next month. SunPower’s high-efficiency solar technology will generate [...]
Pilot efforts will mark first transformational solar and wind power projects in Africa The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors have approved $250 million in funding for the Eskom Renewables Energy Support Project (ERSP) to help implement the pioneering and innovative Upington concentrating solar power and Sere wind power plants in South Africa. The US$250 [...]
LENS (The Laboratory for Energy & Nano Sciences) has designed a very novel variation to the solar power tower. Most power towers collector solar energy with ground mounted rings of sun tracking computer controlled mirrors that focus the energy to small single point at the tower top. This single point heats water or a working fluid [...]
SOLON Corporation, one of the largest providers of turnkey solar power plants in the U.S., will build a 10-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) array near Kingman, Arizona, to provide affordable renewable power to customers of UniSource Energy Services (UES). SOLON will provide the energy to UES through a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) that allows [...]
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Solar Thermal Developer Solar Millennium Sells Additional Investments
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First Solar Thermal Power Plant in Southeast Asia is Fully Operational
Torresol Energy Launches Commercial Operations of Twin Solar Thermal Plants in Spain
Solar Alliance and SEIA Merge to Establish U.S. Solar policies at the State Level
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