2012 marked a record year for America’s solar industry. Installations surged by 76 percent compared to 2011 — representing an estimated market value of $11.5 billion. From commercial to residential, every sector experienced growth, but the clear standout of 2012 was utility-scale solar. Utility-scale solar projects are designed to generate massive amounts of electricity. Unlike [...]
Apr 18 2013 | Posted in
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April, 2013|KAPOLEI, Hawaii REC Solar, a national leader in solar electric system design and installation, now offers turnkey residential solar solutions on the island of O’ahu. Thanks to REC Solar’s partnership with Sunrun, the nation’s leading home solar company, Hawaii residents can now go solar without high upfront cost and lock in low energy rates [...]
FIRST SOLAR ACQUIRES 60 MWAC NORTH STAR PROJECT FROM NORTHLIGHT POWER TEMPE, Arizona First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) and NorthLight Power, LLC this week announced that First Solar has acquired the 60 megawattAC (MW) North Star solar project that NorthLight has developed in Fresno County, Calif. NorthLight is a joint venture of Renewable Energy Corporation [...]
Belmont, California.March 2013 SunEdison, a leading global solar energy services provider and subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. (NYSE:WFR), today announced that the company is making a $20,000 donation to support the Lamont School District students’ participation in NASA’s “Summer of Innovation” 2013 program. The summer program provides hands-on learning opportunities for students and educators [...]
Solar America Corp. has announced the it has made the first shipment of products to the Los Conejos housing project in Tonlola, a suburb of Guadalajara, Mexico. This shipment comes as a result of the Memorandum of Understanding between Solar America and Valdez Cueva Constructores Asosiados, the project’s principal contractor. “This is an exciting day [...]
LAS VEGAS, March, 2013 SolarCity®, a leading provider of clean energy, announced that it plans to open a new location in Nevada, and expects to create hundreds of jobs in the state in the next several years. SolarCity’s expansion is due in large part to the efforts of Governor Brian Sandoval and the Nevada Office [...]
BRIDGEPORT, New Jersey. EnterSolar, a leading provider of commercial solar systems to corporate customers, announced the completion of an 877 kilowatt (“kW”) solar photovoltaic (“PV”) system for Chelten House Products, the privately held organic and fine food manufacturer. The solar power system was installed on the roof of Chelten House’s 150,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility [...]
WASHINGTON – As part of the Energy Department’s SunShot Initiative, the Department today announced seven data-driven projects to unearth new opportunities for reducing costs and accelerating solar energy deployment in the United States. These projects – located in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Texas – will result in viable methods for dramatically transforming [...]
CHANGZHOU, China. Trina Solar Limited (TSL), a global leader in photovoltaic modules, solutions and services, has announced that it will supply 30MW of photovoltaic modules to Gestamp Solar, one of the world’s leading companies in the development and management of photovoltaic parks, for two projects in South Africa. Large-scale solar systems will be installed in [...]
MURRIETA, California. The Murrieta Valley Unified School District is reaping the benefits of solar power systems totaling more than 2.3 megawatts at all 19 district schools and the district support center. Designed and installed by SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY), a national leader in clean energy services, the new installations comprise more than 10,000 solar panels mounted [...]
Tokyo, January 10, 2013 －Solar Frontier announced today that it has reached a basic agreement with the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) for the establishment of a joint investment company that will provide funding for utility-scale solar power plants. The joint investment company will begin operating in February 2013 and will initially target investments in [...]
Antelope Valley Solar Projects Will Generate 579 Megawatts for Southern California Edison PHOENIX and SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 2, 2013. Today, MidAmerican Solar, a subsidiary of MidAmerican Renewables, and SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR) announced MidAmerican Solar’s acquisition from SunPower of the 579-megawatt Antelope Valley Solar Projects (AVSP), two co-located projects in Kern and Los Angeles [...]
December 2012 BYD Company Limited, one of the world’s largest energy solution supplierannounced that BYD will supply 110MW of solar modules-a total of around 458,000solar modules to South Africa for the two projects. By contributing 75 MW toone of the largest solar station in South Africa and also the largest projectof BYD, BYD has supplied [...]
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