Spire Corporation Reports Results for First-Quarter 2011

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 22:28 (Renewable Energy World)

Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing capital equipment and turn-key manufacturing lines to produce photovoltaic (PV) modules and Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) integration services for solar systems, today reported revenues from continuing operations for the first-quarter ended March 31, 2011 of $18.4 million, a 2% decrease from $18.9 million for the same quarter of 2010. Read more

Solar module shipments fall for the first time in two years

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 13:42 (PV-Tech)

PV module shipments have declined for the first time in two years, according to the latest figures released by IMS Research. The quarter-to-quarter shipment figure fell by nearly 10%, a drop attributed to the uncertainty surrounding the announcement of Italy?s new feed-in tariff. Read more

Solar Trust of America expands into photovoltaic market; Joint venture with German SolarHybrid AG to create a leader in solar photovoltaic sector

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 12:54 (Solarserver)

Solar Trust of America (Oakland, Calif.), an integrated solar energy solutions company and developer of the Blythe CSP Project, the largest concentrating solar power plant (CSP) in the world, on May 9th, 2011 announced it signed a letter of intent with SolarHybrid AG (Brilon, Germany), a leading photovoltaic (PV) project developer with over 220 megawatts (MW) of projects in operation and under development in Europe. Solar Trust and SolarHybrid will form a joint venture upon finalization of negotiations to be called SolarHybrid of America, LLC. The new company will develop, build and manage utility-scale solar projects in North America. Read more

PV technology provider centrotherm photovoltaics achieves significant revenue and earnings growth on strong new order inflow in Q1 2011

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 10:43 (Solarserver)

centrotherm photovoltaics AG (Blaubeuren, Germany) benefited from continued strong demand for photovoltaics (PV) in the first quarter of 2011, and remains on its growth path: The globally leading supplier of technology and equipment to the photovoltaic industry achieved 64.2 percent revenue growth in the first three months of this year to reach EUR 189.3 million (prior-year period: EUR 115.3 million). Read more

Eight19 takes organic PV to the next level

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 10:32 (Solarpowerportal)

In a further advancement towards the commercialisation of organic photovoltaics, Eight19 and Cambridge Enterprise, the University of Cambridge’s commercialisation group, have signed an intellectual property agreement. Read more

JA Solar announces strong first quarter results with an optimistic outlook for Q2 and beyond

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 22:35 (PV-Tech)

JA Solar Holdings? financial results for its first quarter 2011 have revealed a profitable quarter that even surpassed some Wall Street analysts? expectations. The company posted total revenue for the quarter of US$556.4 million, which, although shows a 5.5% sequential decrease from 2010?s fourth quarter results of US$588.9 million, still comes in 91.2% higher in a year-over-year comparison with 2010?s first quarter US$290.9 million result. Read more

SolarWorld PV panels form huge parking canopy at Cincinnati Zoo, 1.56-megawatt system providing electricity and shelter

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 21:21 (Solarserver)

Families visiting a most mainstream community, educational and recreational center in America?s heartland, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, are enjoying protection from the weather elements from beneath parking-lot canopy systems composed of 6,400 high-performance solar photovoltaic (PV) panels made by SolarWorld, the largest U.S. manufacturer of solar technology for more than 35 years. Read more

SolarBridge begins volume production of PV microinverters with Celestica; opens office in China

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 21:18 (Solarserver)

SolarBridge (Austin, TX), developer of module-integrated microinverters for the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry, has entered volume production of the SolarBridge "Pantheon" microinverter with Celestica, a global leader in the delivery of end-to-end product lifecycle solutions, in Dongguan, China. Read more

United Solar announces order for 500 kilowatts of solar PV laminates from India's JSW Green Energy

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 21:12 (Solarserver)

United Solar (Auburn Hills, Mich.) manufacturer of flexible, thin-film solar photovoltaic (PV) laminates and a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. on Maqy 9th, 2011 announced an order for 500 kilowatts (kWp) of its "UNI-SOLAR" PV laminates from JSW Green Energy, a 100% subsidiary of JSW Energy Ltd. of Mumbai, India. Read more

First Solar, CPINE join forces on projects in US and China

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 18:40 (PV-Tech)

First Solar and China Power International New Energy (CPINE) have signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement to work together on a range of new solar projects in China and the US. The contract was signed by CPINE?s general manager, Liu Genyu, and the president of First Solar?s components business group, TK Kallenbach, at a ceremony in Beijing. Read more

Trina Solar revises Q1 guidance figures

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 18:10 (PV-Tech)

Trina Solar has revised its Q1 guidance figure ahead of the release of its Q1 financial results. The most significant of the changes was a downward adjustment in module shipments from around 351MW to between 320 and 322MW, which came in response to the fall in module demand caused by the uncertainty surrounding Italy?s feed-in tariff. Read more

Mage Solar offers UK installer training workshops

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 13:12 (Solarpowerportal)

Mage Solar has launched a Europe-wide installer road show, which kicked off with two intensive workshops held in the UK. A total of 18 installers from 10 trade businesses from Southern England were invited to expand their expertise in the photovoltaic field and get to know the integral coordinated Mage Solar system components hands on. Read more

QSolar ships modules for demonstration phase of 37MW Moroccan PV project

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 12:13 (Solarserver)

On May 9th, 2011, QSolar Limited (Calgary, Canada) announced that it has shipped a sample quantity of 56 230 watt solar photovoltaic (PV) modules to Morocco for projects with Solwin Maroc Sarl (Morocco), a division of Allied Solwin Ltd. (U.K.). The modules are part of the demonstration phase of three solar projects which will total 37MW. Read more

SolarBridge Lauches Microinverters for a New Market

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 12:09 (Renewable Energy World)

The idea of combining power conversion electronics with solar panels to create AC panels has been kicked around for a while. But it hasn't taken off in the market partly because developing suitable inverters and making them in volumes has proven a serious challenge. That barrier is disappearing, however. SolarBridge Technologies, for one, announced Monday that it has begun producing its microinverters in volumes, a milestone for a company that delayed the product launch to improve the technology. Read more

NRG Energy move away from nuclear project affects 1Q 2011 financial result, announces prioritizing natural gas and solar generation

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 11:51 (Solarserver)

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QSolar panels used for final testing stage of Moroccan solar portfolio

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 11:28 (PV-Tech)

QSolar has shipped 56 of its 230W Spraytek79 panels to Morocco to help complete the final testing phase of the country?s three latest solar projects. Testing of the systems, which have capacities of 30MW, 6MW and 1MW and a total value of US$51.21 million, is being carried out by the Moroccan branch of Allied Solwin, Solwin Maroc Sarl. Read more

40th ASES National Solar Conference Features More Than a Dozen Industry-Leading Speakers

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 0:38 (Renewable Energy World)

Attendees of the 40th annual ASES National Solar Conference (SOLAR 2011), May 17?21 in Raleigh, N.C., will gain valuable insights, experience and training from 14 industry-leading speakers. The speakers represent government, utilities, nonprofits, national environmental organizations and other groups essential to increasing renewable energy use. They will discuss advances in technology and mass deployment of renewable energy and efficiency, national security, jobs creation, how to market solar PV and thermal, legislation to encourage further growth of renewable energy and much more. Read more

Order Focus: Innotech Solar inks US$8M deal to supply 4.3MW of PV modules to European utility

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 0:07 (PV-Tech)

Innotech Solar has signed a US$8.18 million (NOK 45 million) deal to provide 4.3MWp of its PV modules and engineering services to an undisclosed Spanish customer. The PV modules will be part of a roof mounted solar project near Grenada, Spain and use over 20,000 of Innotech?s PV modules. Delivery is scheduled to begin this month and conclude in September. The Spanish PV plant has an estimated 6GWh of electricity output per year. Read more

Ormazabal signs LTA with Vestas Offshore UK and Siemens Wind Energy Systems

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 17:16 (Renewable Energy World)

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U.K. Renewable Energy Association: Committee on Climate Change makes ?classic mistake? in assessing the value of solar

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 21:16 (Solarserver)

In its report on renewables, published on May5th, 2011, the U.K. Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has fallen into the trap of comparing the cost of solar power with current wholesale electricity prices, rather than retail prices which are more than twice the cost, the British Renewable Energy Association (REA) criticizes in a press release. One of the benefits of solar power is that it provides electricity directly to the consumer, without the need for the numerous additional costs that are inherent in networked electricity, REA emphasizes. "It is therefore crucial that, when looking at solar power, the retail price of electricity is used as the comparator". Read more

Pew study: Most Americans support stronger environmental regulation, development of energy alternatives

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 21:10 (Solarserver)

A new study by the Pew Research Center (Washington D.C., U.S.) shows that most of the U.S. political spectrum supports stronger environmental regulation, and that opposition to such regulation is concentrated among those with the most right-wing political views. Read more

Renewable Energy Associations Laud United Nations Climate Report

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 16:55 (Renewable Energy World)

Leaders of the renewable energy industry hailed the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that shows with the right policies to support growth, renewable power sources could dominate the world's energy supply by 2050, and called even more strongly for the development of smart energy policies to ensure that renewables continue to grow. Read more

PV production: GCL-Poly purchases wire saws systems from Applied Materials for more than 2.5GW of wafering capacity

Tuesday, 5.10.2011 - 12:13 (Solarserver)

On May 8th, 2011, Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, California, U.S.) announced that it has received an order for its HCT B5 wire saw systems from GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd. (Hong Kong, China), representing more than 2.5GW of wafering capacity. The systems are scheduled to begin shipping to GCL-Poly's facilities in Suzhou, Changzhou and Taicang, China by the end of June 2011. Read more