Project Focus: PSE&G starts work on 4.4MW solar project in Hamilton Township, NJ

Monday, 11.22.2010 - 23:15 (PV-Tech)

Public Service Electric and Gas (PSE&G) said it has begun the first phase of construction at the 4.4MW Yardville Solar Farm in Hamilton Township, NJ. The power plant is one of four ground-mounted solar farms that the utility is developing as part of its $515 million Solar 4 All program. Read more

Industry gathers to fight large-scale solar threat

Monday, 11.22.2010 - 18:44 (Solarpowerportal)

Following the recent media hype surrounding Greg Barker’s statement in the House of Commons on November 11, which alluded to the possibility that large-scale solar installations in the UK could be under threat, a meeting between representatives of the solar industry, including the Renewable Energy Association (REA), the Micropower council and the Minister has been set up for November 24. Read more

PV Crystalox targets 800MW wafer capacity by end of 2012

Monday, 11.22.2010 - 16:15 (PV-Tech)

Sustained strong demand has led solar wafer producer, PV Crystalox Solar to publically provide a longer-range insight into its capacity expansion plans through to the end of 2012. Previously, the wafer producer had noted that plans to expand to 630MW were only under review. However, PV Crystalox said in an interim management statement that it was ‘actively planning the next stages of capacity expansion which will enable us to reach 630MW at the end of 2011 and 800MW at end of 2012.’ Read more

Project Focus: Foster Wheeler to equip Madinat Zayed plant

Monday, 11.22.2010 - 13:58 (PV-Tech)

Foster Wheeler will design and supply equipment for the planned 100MW Shams-1 solar power plant at Madinat Zayed, United Arab Emirates. The plant, located just outside Abu Dhabi, will receive the equipment in the third quarter of 2011. Read more

Israel?s National Infrastructures Minister signs country?s first solar PPA

Monday, 11.22.2010 - 12:12 (PV-Tech)

Israel's National Infrastructures Minister Uzi Landau has signed the first power purchase agreement (PPA) for renewable energy in the country's history, with Ketura Sun, the joint venture between Arava Solar Power Company (APC) and Kibbutz Ketura, which is developing a 4.9MW plant in the southern Arava near Eilat. The agreement, which will stretch over 20 years, is said to be worth NIS 250 million. Read more

Neo Solar signs seven-year poly silicon supply contract with Hankook

Monday, 11.22.2010 - 12:01 (PV-Tech)

Neo Solar Power has signed a poly silicon supply contract with Hankook Silicon, which will provide them with 11,600 tonnes of poly silicon between 2011 and 2017. The agreement not only provides Neo Solar Power with a stable long-term poly silicon supply but also reinforces the strategic alliance between the two companies. Read more

US Navy's Solar Power Push

Monday, 11.22.2010 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

The U.S. Navy's Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southeast - based in Jacksonville, Fla. - is using $69.3 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to install solar energy systems and upgrade a total of 32 buildings at 11 naval installations across Florida, Mississippi and Texas. Read more

Solar FlexRack Chosen for Canadian Projects Totaling 36MW

Monday, 11.22.2010 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO ? A pair of Canadian projects have tapped the Solar FlexRack as the mounting hardware of choice. Read more

Baby Steps Taken To Commercialize 2nd Gen Ethanol

Monday, 11.22.2010 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

Building a commercial second-generation biofuel facility is no easy task. Earlier this year, the DOE scaled back its requirement that 100 million gallons of second-generation ethanol be on the market by 2011 to just 5.3 million gallons citing the difficulty in securing financing to set up commercial facilities. Read more

Measuring Wind Turbine Noise

Monday, 11.22.2010 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

There have been a number of stories recently about how turbine noise impacts people who live close to wind farms. Inevitably, the conversation comes back to whether the turbines are too loud. Read more

Rediscovering Hydropower

Monday, 11.22.2010 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

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Alternative Energy and Climate Change Mutual Funds, Part IV

Monday, 11.22.2010 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

So far in this series I've concentrated on trying to pick the best of the Alternative Energy and Climate Change Mutual Funds. This is a difficult task, because while I found in Part III that most of the funds' performance has been better than comparable index ETFs, these mutual funds' costs are quite high, even by the standards of most mutual funds, as I discussed in Part I. Read more

US Should Stay Out of Cancun Says Climate Action Group

Monday, 11.22.2010 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

The U.S. should just stay out of the way of meaningful global carbon reduction agreements like those that will be discussed at the upcoming international climate negotiations in Canun, Mexico. At least that is the viewpoint of nonprofit climate change organization, Carbonfund.org. The organization is hoping that the countries that do participate will extend the Kyoto Protocol, which is set to expire in 2012 and agree on a new emissions reduction strategy. Read more