SMA America Elevates Technical Support with New Service Center

Tuesday, 1.11.2011 - 19:08 (Renewable Energy World)

SMA America has unveiled its new Service Center, which now provides faster, easier technical support via the phone, Internet and on-site in the U.S. and Canada. Service Center representatives help customers every step of the way by assisting with SMA products in all phases of the installation. Located in Rocklin, the Service Center is open Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. PST and can be reached by calling 1-877-My-SMATech. Read more

Order Focus: Emcore wins panel supply contract for NASA mission

Tuesday, 1.11.2011 - 17:39 (PV-Tech)

Emcore has won the right to supply NASA?s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Maryland with solar panels for its Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission. The US$10 million contract will see four MMS spacecrafts equipped with Emcore?s ZTJ solar cells. Read more

ET Solar Signed 370MW Solar Cell Procurement Agreement with Neo Solar

Tuesday, 1.11.2011 - 9:28 (Renewable Energy World)

Read more

Lufft Teams With Kipp and Zonen To Release New Weather Station With Integrated Pyranometer

Tuesday, 1.11.2011 - 4:00 (Renewable Energy World)

Lufft USA of Santa Barbara, CA announced today that they will begin production of a new integrated weather station with built in pyranometer in addition to temperature, relative humidity, air pressure and wind speed/direction measurements. Lufft USA will debut the new sensors during the American Meteorological Society Exposition January 23-27 2011 and will be a special feature during the AWEA Small and Community Wind Show Dec 7-9 2010 in Portland, Oregon. Read more

Order Focus: CTDC subsidiary signs module purchase agreement with GPS&T

Tuesday, 1.11.2011 - 0:49 (PV-Tech)

China Merchants Zhangzhou Development Zone Trendar Solar Tech, a subsidiary of China Technology Development Group (CTDC), entered into a purchase agreement with Goldpoly Science & Technology Industry. The supply deal, whose worth was not revealed, will see GPS&T, a subsidiary of Time Infrastructure Holdings, furnish Trendar Solar with 100MW of polycrystalline solar cells throughout 2011. Read more

Elkem Solar sold to Chinese as part of US$2 billion deal

Tuesday, 1.11.2011 - 16:31 (PV-Tech)

Elkem Silicon Materials (polysilicon) and Elkem Solar (solar wafers) are part of a business divesture plan of Norwegian conglomerate, Orkla to primarily state-owned Chinese chemical firm, China National Bluestar. The US$2 billion all cash transaction also includes Elkem?s Aluminium and carbon?s businesses. Completion of the deal is expected during the 1st half of 2011. Read more

Order Focus: Trina Solar adds to GCL-Poly wafer and polysilicon supply deal

Tuesday, 1.11.2011 - 15:43 (PV-Tech)

A supplemental wafer and polysilicon supply deal has been signed between Trina Solar and GCL-Poly to the equivalent of 7,500MW worth of solar modules in aggregate over the next five years. The company employs a co-location manufacturing strategy with key customers such as, Trina Solar, JA Solar, Canadian Solar, Suntech and Solarfun. Read more

Centrosolar to expand c-Si module production under TSMC agreement

Tuesday, 1.11.2011 - 11:53 (PV-Tech)

The world?s largest semiconductor foundry, TSMC has entered into a 5-year c-Si module subcontract agreement with Centrosolar. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal marks TSMC?s entry into c-Si cell production beginning in the third quarter of 2011, when Centrosolar will produce modules for TSMC at a new manufacturing plant extension to be built at its exiting plant in Wismar, Germany. The modules will be marketed by TSMC within Europe. The exclusive supply contract is worth 100MW per annum. Read more

Solar Guide launches new solar calculator

Tuesday, 1.11.2011 - 11:14 (Solarpowerportal)

Solar Guide, the free online resource for homeowners and engineers, has launched a new version of its solar photovoltaic (PV) feed-in tariff calculator, which can now be embedded on other solar websites. Read more

ET Solar Announced a 12MW Module Supply Agreement with Zen Technologies

Tuesday, 1.11.2011 - 9:29 (Renewable Energy World)

Read more

ET Solar Announces an Order Volume of 50MW from the United Kingdom for 2011

Tuesday, 1.11.2011 - 9:27 (Renewable Energy World)

Read more

Tenesol is first in France to receive ISO 9001 certification for solar PV plants

Tuesday, 1.11.2011 - 1:06 (PV-Tech)

Tenesol is not a stranger to ISO 9001 certification. The company first received the certification in 2003, but the renewal of the ISO 9001 certification in 2010, which includes certification for design, manufacturing and distribution, has been extended to now also cover the installation and operation of PV power plants. This marks Tenesol as the first French company to achieve this level of ISO 9001 certification. Read more

KDC Solar to develop 3.25MW rooftop solar system at United Stationers New Jersey facility

Tuesday, 1.11.2011 - 1:03 (PV-Tech)

KDC Solar will be collaborating with United Stationers Supply and The Sudler Companies for the development of a 3.25MW roof-mounted solar system at United Stationers Cranbury, New Jersey distribution center. KDC will design, install, own and operate the solar installation, which is anticipated to generate around 3,450,000kWh of electricity every year. The installation is set to begin construction early this year and be fully operational before year end. Read more

POET cellulosic ethanol powers 'EcoTrek' national tour

Tuesday, 1.11.2011 - 19:22 (Renewable Energy World)

POET cellulosic ethanol is powering a cross country road trip of the non-profit EcoTrek Foundation to showcase renewable fuels and educate the public about environmental issues. Read more

2010 Clean Energy Investment Hits a New Record

Tuesday, 1.11.2011 - 19:20 (Renewable Energy World)

Bloomberg New Energy Finance released 2010 investment figures this week. Although certain sectors like wind and biofuels had a rough year in some countries, the overall trends in project finance, venture capital and supply-chain investments were very positive. Read more

The New Economics of Next-Gen Gasification

Tuesday, 1.11.2011 - 16:28 (Renewable Energy World)

Those who take an interest in the history of engineering probably know about the problems of high cost and fuel yield that plagued the development of the early steam engine, just as they have plagued the development of affordable Fischer-Tropsch and other thermal and catalytic conversion technologies for biofuels. Read more

Policy Top 10 In '10

Tuesday, 1.11.2011 - 6:00 (Renewable Energy World)

Despite the sluggishness of FITs and the belly flop of PACE programs, 2010 was still a robust year -- once again -- for renewable energy policy at the state and local levels, especially with respect to net metering, interconnection standards and RPS policies. Read more