UK solar glass developer in £ 2.3m row over solar cell supply

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 16:38 (Solarpowerportal)

UK-based specialist glass developer, Romag is reportedly entangled in a row over a £2.3 million charge with a supplier of solar photovoltaic cells used in the manufacture of solar glass. The company said that its supplier was no longer able to deliver the required product and had asked Romag to take a different type. Read more

Emcore and San?an agree to establish Suncore CPV manufacturing JV in Huainan, China

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 3:15 (PV-Tech)

Emcore and San’an Optoelectronics Company have come together for an investment and cooperation agreement with the Huainan municipal government. Under the agreement, Emcore and San’an will register and operate their joint venture (JV), Suncore Photovoltaics, in Huainan City for the production of CPV components and systems for terrestrial solar power applications. Read more

Survey results suggest over 80% of farmers want rooftop solar power

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 19:21 (Solarpowerportal)

A recent survey conducted by Farming Futures and Solarcentury has found that 80% of farmers in the UK want to have solar photovoltaics installation on their roofs within the next three years. These results prove that farmers’ interest in generating renewable electricity has increased dramatically since the... Read more

Solutia adding production capacity of EVA encapsulants in China

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 18:25 (PV-Tech)

Solutia is to include additional production lines supporting the company's Vistasolar ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) encapsulant at its Suzhou, China facility by late 2011. The Vistasolar encapsulants are currently manufactured in Dietenheim, Germany. Read more

Order Focus: LDK Solar to supply Lu?an Group with polysilicon and wafers

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 18:15 (PV-Tech)

Chinese state company Lu'an Group has secured a wafer and polysilicon supply deal with LDK Solar as it ramps its first 60MW solar cell turnkey factory supplied by centrotherm photovoltaics. Shanxi Lu'an Photovoltaic Technology Co, a subsidiary of Lu’an Group is also planning to expand capacity to 360MW in the future. Read more

Neo Solar Power to expand cell capacity to 1.2GW in 2011

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 18:15 (PV-Tech)

Having completed its planned cell manufacturing capacity expansion to 800MW, Neo Solar Power (NSP) expects capacity to be expanded to over 1.2GW in 2011. The capacity expansion is 200MW more than previously guided at the beginning of the year. Strong demand despite the capacity increase from 240MW in 2009 highlights the company’s confidence in the market growing next year. Read more

Solutia to begin production of EVA encapsulants in China

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 18:15 (PV-Tech)

Solutia is to include additional production lines supporting the company's Vistasolar ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) encapsulant at its Suzhou, China facility by late 2011. The Vistasolar encapsulants are currently manufactured in Dietenheim, Germany. Read more

SunPower opens 1.1MW Bakersfield College campus system

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 17:15 (PV-Tech)

SunPower and Kern Community College District have opened a 1.1MW solar power system at Bakersfield College. The system, which will supply one-third of the college?s electricity, took five months to build and features a 3.1-acre parking lot canopy structure with nearly 3,700 PV panels. Read more

Project Focus: Semprius installs HCPV system at Tucson Electric Power

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 17:15 (PV-Tech)

Semprius has completed the installation of the first microcell-based HCPV research development and demonstration (RD&D) system at Tucson Electric Power (TEP). The installation, which was completed in August this year, combines Semprius' HCPV modules with an automated solar tracking system from Siemens. The TEP project is part of a joint development agreement signed by Semprius and Siemens at the beginning of 2010, which aims to achieve the deployment of numerous new HCPV systems at test sites around the world. Read more

Liverpool-based solar power company opens new office in Darlington

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 16:59 (Solarpowerportal)

Liverpool- based Eco-Environments has opened new offices in Manchester, Tamworth, Penrith, and most recently, Darlington, in a bid to cater for the increased demand for renewable energy in the UK. Eco-Environments’ team of 20 employees designs, installs and commissions renewable energy... Read more

SolarEdge enlist One Network to help install solar harvesting system

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 15:15 (PV-Tech)

SolarEdge Technologies has chosen One Network to market and install its PowerBoxes, PV monitoring portal and three-phase solar inverters. One Network has installed 7MW of PV and tracking equipment in France in 2010 and hopes its agreement with SolarEdge will see it break the 10MW barrier next year. Read more

GCL-Poly wafer capacity reaches 3.5GW

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 15:15 (PV-Tech)

A month ahead of schedule, GCL-Poly has reached its aggressive wafer capacity expansion target of 3.5GW, making it potentially the largest solar wafer producer in the world. Actual annual production capacity reached 2GW in October 2010 with an annual production volume then, of approximately 1.3GW. The production ramp reflects the recent order GCL-Poly secured with JA Solar to supply 10GW of polycrystalline wafers and polysilicon products over a five year period. The company employs a co-location manufacturing strategy with key customers such as JA Solar, Canadian Solar, Trina Solar and Suntech. Read more

Big Solar vs. Little Solar

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

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Standard Solar brings alternative energy to municipal buildings in Prince Georges County

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

Standard Solar, Inc., a leader in the full-service development, installation and financing of solar electric systems for commercial, government and residential customers, today announced the completion of a series of solar projects on municipal buildings in Prince Georges County, including the Bladensburg and Cottage City police departments and several Town Hall buildings. Read more

Silex Systems looks to offer share placement in order to raise equity for solar power projects

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 3:15 (PV-Tech)

Australian company Silex Systems is looking to expand its solar power PV efforts and has embarked upon a fully underwritten institutional placement of new ordinary shares in order to raise AUD$89.1 million. The money collected will be put towards different prospects, but will mainly focus on Silex’s subsidiary, Solar Systems Pty, and the solar PV technology they develop. Read more

Cool Earth Solar expands Northern California headquarters and production site

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 3:15 (PV-Tech)

Cool Earth Solar will be expanding its headquarters and production facility located in Livermore, California. The 25,724 square foot facility is an added 13,000 square feet of space from the current office. The Livermore facility will be used for the production of the company’s CPV technology as well as prototyping, manufacturing and additional employee workspace. Read more

This Week in Biofuels, A Patent Perspective

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

On December 2, 2010, the United States Patent Office published two Novozymes applications relating to bioethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass and an Iogen application relating to bioethanol production from lignocellulosic. Read more

Wind Power Market Strong, Bankable and Global

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

The wind industry is a global franchise with companies doing business far outside of their home countries. A few announcements this week highlight this trend. Read more

Pricing Offshore Wind Energy: Is Bigger Cheaper?

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

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Geothermal will be key for an optimal energy mix

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

Europe's geopower industry confirmed today that it will become a viable source of cheap baseload energy in the 2030 energy mix supplying at least 20% of future demand. New EGS systems have a significant role to play and require the visionary support of the Governments and the European Commission. Read more

Amtech receives ?Special Contribution Award? from Yingli Green

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 19:09 (PV-Tech)

At its recently held ‘Supplier Conference,’ Yingli Green awarded Amtech Systems with its “Special Contribution Award” for excellence in optimizing the efficiency and productivity of Yingli’s cell manufacturing operations in Baoding, Hebei province, China. According to Amtech, This was the highest honour given to Yingli’s business partners during its First Supplier Conference. Read more

DECC claws back large-scale project developer confidence

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 18:54 (Solarpowerportal)

Energy Minister Charles Hendry has announced that developers of new large-scale renewable electricity projects will get earlier and greater certainty about how much support they will receive under the Renewables Obligation from 2013. New utility project developers will now have more of an idea of the support they will... Read more

Project Focus: Tenesol completes first ?positive energy? installation in France

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 18:15 (PV-Tech)

Global electricity supplier Tenesol, owned by Total and EDF, has completed the first 'positive-energy' production facility in France. The project, which generates up to three and a half times more energy than it consumes, is located near Avignon, and is fully owned by Isoltop. Read more

Large power consumers could be paid for the electricity they save

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 15:35 (Solarpowerportal)

Minister of State for Energy Charles Hendry has revealed plans for a new scheme which will pay guzzlers to use less during peak energy demand periods. In a bid to reduce the UK’s carbon emissions, the scheme will reward big power consumers for each ‘negawatt’ of capacity they switch off. Read more

Project Focus: Recurrent Energy open 5MW San Francisco plant

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 13:55 (PV-Tech)

Recurrent Energy has tripled San Francisco's solar capacity by opening its 5MW power plant on the city's Sunset Reservoir. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has agreed a 25-year Power Purchase Agreement to use the energy generated by the system's 24,000 PV panels, which will be used to power municipal services and facilities, such as the city's airport, light rail, and buildings. Read more

Prognos AG, WtERT, Canadian Energy-from-Waste Coalition, Mokesa AG, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Columbia University, and more gear up for Waste-to-energy Development in South East Europe

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

With four months to go, top companies are now preparing to share their waste management strategies at the annual South East European Conference & Exhibition for Waste Management SAVE the PLANET in Sofia on April 13-15. Read more

Renewable Energy Economies of Scale are B.S.

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

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College Graduates Learning the Importance of Green Jobs

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

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Secretary of Commerce Launches National Renewable Energy Export Initiative

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

The Secretary of Commerce released the Administration's plan for a Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RE&EE) Export Initiative, and addressed the first meeting of his newly created Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Advisory Committee. Secretary Gary Locke urged its members to help the Administration achieve its goal of doubling renewable energy exports in the next five years, targeting $10 billion or more in annual export benefits. Read more

The True Cost of Renewable Energy

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

What does renewable energy cost? Isn't it still more expensive than fossil fuel electricity? Way more? In a word: no. Read more

Altairnano Wins 10MW Energy Storage Project

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

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U.S. Government launches Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Export Initiative

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 3:15 (PV-Tech)

For the first time in its history, the U.S. Government has launched a government-coordinated plan for the support of renewable energy and energy efficiency exports. The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Export Initiative has 23 commitments from 8 different federal agencies, which plan to focus on new programs, actions or deliverables to tackle major export barriers in the U.S. renewable energy and energy efficiency (RE&EE) companies. Read more

Eclipsall Energy to build new 64MW manufacturing facility in Ontario

Wednesday, 12.8.2010 - 3:15 (PV-Tech)

The Greater Toronto area will be home to a new solar panel manufacturing facility courtesy of Eclipsall Energy. The company is investing over CAN$10 million for the 64MWp plant, which is anticipated to be operational during the first half of 2011. The need for expansion of the manufacturing line will be evaluated later in 2011. Read more