Saint-Gobain brings Avancis PowerMax CIS solar modules to North American market

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 22:34 (PV-Tech)

After installing Avancis PowerMax PV modules at its Phoenix, Arizona headquarters, Saint-Gobain Solar has revealed that it will be begin offering the CIS modules to the North American market. The PowerMax black panels are IEC and UL certified and can be installed on roofs, curtain walls and canopies and feature a CIS technology that is deposited in thin layers on the glass substrate. Read more

Sanmina-SCI agrees to manufacture Santerno PV inverters at its Ontario facility

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 21:59 (PV-Tech)

Sanmina-SCI will be helping Santerno meet Ontario?s FiT domestic content requirements under a new deal the companies mutually entered. No financial or timeline details were revealed, but it was made known that Sanmina-SCI will manufacture Santerno?s solar PV inverters at its Ottawa, Ontario, Canada facility. The agreement?s production capacity was not disclosed, however the inverters produced will be for commercial application and help Santerno expand its North American manufacturing-base. Read more

Toys"R"Us announces plans to install North America's largest PV rooftop system at distribution center in New Jersey; 5.38MW structure to occupy 869,294 square feet

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 21:28 (Solarserver)

Toys"R"Us, Inc. on May 11th, 2011 announced plans to add the largest rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) power installation in North America to its distribution center in Flanders, NJ. Staging for the system is currently underway and construction will conclude this summer, the company reports. Upon completion, the 5.38 megawatt (MW) on-site solar energy system will occupy 869,294 square feet and is estimated to cover 72 percent of the electrical needs for the Toys"R"Us facility. Read more

Spire Corporation revenues increase 2% in 1Q 2011, reports net loss

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 21:21 (Solarserver)

On May 10th, 2011, Spire Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.) announced its first quarter 2011 financial results, reporting revenues of USD 18.4 million, a 2% increase from the fourth quarter of 2010. The company reported a net loss for the quarter of USD 2.0 million, but also an increase of 43% in solar cell sales over the first quarter of 2010. Read more

JA Solar revenues decrease 5.5% quarter-to-quarter to USD 556 million; predicts solar cell and module shipments will exceed 400MW in the second quarter of 2011

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 11:50 (Solarserver)

On May 10th, 2011, JA Solar Holdings Company Ltd. (Shanghai, China) announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2011, reporting a 5.5% decrease in revenues from the fourth quarter of 2010 to USD 556 million. The company also reported shipments of 451MW, a decrease of 2.6% sequentially, and an operating margin of 15.0%. Read more

DOE offers conditional commitment for USD 90.6 million loan guarantee for 30MW HCPV project in Colorado

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 11:43 (Solarserver)

On May 10th, 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the offer of a conditional commitment for a USD 90.6 million loan guarantee to Cogentrix of Alamosa LLC (Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.). The loan guarantee will support the development of the 30MW Alamosa Solar Generating Project, a high concentration solar photovoltaic (HCPV) project near the city of Alamosa, Colorado. Read more

Nevada considers bill to create pilot feed-in tariff program

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 11:35 (Solarserver)

A bill to create a pilot system of feed-in tariffs in the U.S. state of Nevada is currently being considered by the state's legislature. If passed, SB184 will create must-take contracts for renewable energy projects between 100kW and 3MW and a system of payments differentiated by resource. Read more

Q-Cells sales crash in first quarter

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 0:31 (PV-Tech)

Sales at Q-Cells fell by approximately 46% in the first quarter of 2011 to ?125.1 million, compared to ?232.3 million in the first quarter of 2010. The company cited a string of market issues that were responsible for the crash in sales, held higher by the sale of a utility-scale project in Strasskirchen, Germany that provided proceeds of ?72.5 million and the ?20 million sale of electricity trading company QCCS at the end of 2010. Read more

Wattner buys 9.2MW solar PV project set for Opel manufacturing center rooftop

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 23:04 (PV-Tech)

Wattner has acquired a 9.2MW solar system, which will be constructed across five of Germany-based Opel?s rooftops. Wattner secured EWT SolServ for the construction and installation of the project, which will use nearly 40,000 solar modules and 500 inverters. The energy produced from the project will be fed directly into Opel?s corporate grid. Read more

Large-scale Solar Power is Focus of New PennWell Event

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 19:51 (Renewable Energy World)

In 2010, the U.S. solar power market grew more than 100%, with 28% of installations considered large-scale ? over 1 MW. There are now more than 700 MW of utility PV projects under contract and 11 GW of concentrating solar power plants in various stages of development across North America. Read more

Strong wafer and module sales help SolarWorld record impressive Q1 figures

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 19:19 (PV-Tech)

SolarWorld has posted impressive Q1 financial figures, with shipments, revenue and earnings before interest all rising. These numbers are in stark contrast to those of many of SolarWorld?s peers and have been attributed to its strong performance in North America. Read more

Green Carrots: Conergy completes solar installation for Grimmway Enterprises

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 19:00 (Renewable Energy World)

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Tokuyama plans to triple polysilicon production by 2015

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 18:35 (PV-Tech)

Tokuyama is looking make further inroads into the lucrative solar industry by more than tripling polysilicon production from its Malaysian and Japanese facilities. The Japanese industrial chemicals group will spend ¥111 billion (US$1.4 billion) on the ramping up process. Read more

Alistair McGowan makes quite an impression at Hinchley Wood School

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 17:36 (Solarpowerportal)

This morning the pupils of Hinchley Wood School had more than SATs to get out of bed for. Congratulating the ‘Green Flag’ school on its environmental initiative; impressionist, environmentalist and solar power advocate Alistair McGowan travelled to Surrey to open the brand new solar installation, which is one of the largest in the UK. Read more

Canadian Solar posts healthy Q1 financial figures

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 16:32 (PV-Tech)

Canadian Solar has posted a healthy net revenue figure of US$443.4 million for the first quarter of the year. This number was inspired by module shipments of 244MW and is up 31.6% from the corresponding figure in 2010 of US$336.9 million. Read more

Scatec Solar connects 4MW Italian system to the grid

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 15:46 (PV-Tech)

Norwegian firm Scatec Solar has connected its recently-completed solar plant in Puglia, Italy to the grid. The 4MW system is made up of 17,000 modules and will generate around 5.7 million kWh of electricity per annum. Read more

PennWell Corporation Announces Large-Scale Solar Conference and Exhibition

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 15:35 (Renewable Energy World)

TULSA, OK, May 12, 2011 ?PennWell Corporation announces a new annual conference & exhibition for the large-scale solar power market. Solar POWER-GEN Conference & Exhibition, which will premier in Long Beach, CA on Feb. 14-16, 2012, will be co-located with the 9th annual Renewable Energy World Conference & Expo North America. The new event will delve into the specifics of developing, supporting and growing large-scale solar power in North America. Read more

OPEL Proposing New Directors and Other Governance Information

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 15:34 (Renewable Energy World)

OPEL Solar International Inc. (TSX VENTURE:OPL) ("OPEL" or "the Company") today announced a realignment of its Board of Directors. Read more

Flextronics and MEMC expand partnership to produce solar PV panels for SunEdison; Production in Malaysia expected to build approximately 270MW annually

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 12:11 (Solarserver)

Flextronics (Singapore) and MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. (St. Peters, Missouri, U.S.) on May 11th, 2011 announced the expansion of an agreement between Flextronics and MEMC's affiliate, MEMC Singapore, to produce solar photovoltaic (PV) panels for MEMC's SunEdison subsidiary. This partnership expansion includes the production of solar panels from Flextronics' Clean Tech Supersite in Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP), Malaysia. Read more

AWSL Issues Shareholder Update on Power Purchase Agreement Status, S-1, Rooftop Solar Pipeline and New Video News Updates.

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 3:59 (Renewable Energy World)

Atlantic Wind & Solar (OTC:AWSL) reports that they have received notice from the Ontario Power Authority (OPA), confirming that 26 of their initial Power Purchase Agreement applications, all applied for last year between June and December, have been successfully processed by the OPA and have moved into the OPA's final review queue. The initial 26 contracts are expected to be released in the next round of Capacity Allocation Exempt (CAE) approvals. As indicated in a Press Release issued by the OPA on February 24, 2011, this may be expected to occur any time. Read more

US DOE offers US$90.6M conditional loan guarantee commitment to Cogentrix for Alamosa CPV project

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 1:57 (PV-Tech)

Cogentrix has been offered a US$90.6 million conditional loan guarantee commitment by the US Department of Energy (DOE). The loan guarantee will help finance the construction of the 30MW Alamosa Solar Generating Project located in the state of Colorado. The high concentration solar PV (HCPV) project will produce around 75,000MWh of energy, all of which has been agreed to be sold to Public Service Company of Colorado. Read more

US DOE offers US$90.6M conditional commitment loan guarantee to Cogentrix for Alamosa CPV project

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 1:57 (PV-Tech)

Cogentrix has been offered a US$90.6 million conditional commitment loan guarantee by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and US Energy Secretary Steven Chu. The loan guarantee entails the construction of the 30MW Alamosa Solar Generating Project located in the state of Colorado. The high concentration solar PV (HCPV) project will produce around 75,000MWh of energy, all of which has been agreed to be sold to Public Service Company of Colorado. Read more

Phoenix Solar financial results miss badly: updates market dynamics

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 1:48 (PV-Tech)

High exposure to key European PV markets for project developer Phoenix Solar meant that sales fell dramatically in the first quarter as weak demand and inventory write-downs impacted financial results. Sales were down approximately 60% to ?32.4 million in comparison to ?80.4 million posted in the first quarter of 2010. Read more

Picosun lands customers for its ALD cluster unit

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 1:24 (PV-Tech)

Picosun?s ALD cluster system, the Picoplatform Cloverleaf system, for solar PV researchers has found its first customers. The cluster system uses four distinct Sunale ALD reactors, which are combined into a ?four-leaf clover? geometry using a common central unit housing an automated vacuum robot. Picosun maintains that this design allows for the concurrent running of multiple coating processes with different precursors, including ozone and plasma treatments for precursors that have limited reactivity or substrates with a sensitive surface or low temperature requirement. Read more

Advanced Energy?s Solaron PV inverter breaks another efficiency record

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 0:58 (PV-Tech)

Advanced Energy Industries 500kW Solaron PV inverter already held the industry efficiency records at 97% and 97.5%, however the California Energy Commission (CEC) has recently confirmed that the Solaron inverter has reached, and therefore broken, another efficiency rating by achieving 98% efficiency. Read more

IPCC: 77% of world's energy could be supplied by renewables by 2050 with political support; CSP, PV could supply up to 1/3 of electricity

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 21:37 (Solarserver)

On May 9th, 2011, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) announced a new report which states that up to 77% of the world's energy supply could be produced with renewable energy by 2050 if supported by the right policies. The "Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation" (SSREN) reviewed the current penetration of six renewable energy technologies and their potential deployment in the coming decades, including solar photovoltaics (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP). Read more

Yingli Green Energy Announces Business Updates

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 16:03 (Renewable Energy World)

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) ("Yingli Green Energy" or the "Company"), a leading solar energy company and one of the world's largest vertically integrated photovoltaic (PV) manufacturers, which markets its products under the brand "Yingli Solar," today announced certain business updates. Read more

eIQ Energy technology to power 1.2MW facility in California

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 15:00 (PV-Tech)

eIQ Energy?s has agreed to supply its Parallel Solar technology for a new 1.2MW solar installation at Granite Construction?s aggregate and hot mix facility in Coalinga, California. Building work on the project began earlier this month and grid connection is expected to be achieved later on this summer. Read more

Carbon War Room CEO: "Radical Incrementalism Will Fail"

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 14:43 (Renewable Energy World)

The Richard Branson-backed nonprofit, the Carbon War Room is a group that thinks big in the battle against catastrophic climate change. They're only interested in attacking problems with the potential to reduce carbon emissions on the gigaton scale, that is reducing emissions by a billion tons a year. Read more

Gov. Mitch Daniels signs energy bill with voluntary Clean Energy Portfolio Standard for Indiana

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 13:48 (Renewable Energy World)

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PV producer Yingli Green Energy downgrades guidance for 1Q 2011; Provides shipment guidance for second quarter 2011

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 12:05 (Solarserver)

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (Baoding, China), one of the world's largest vertically integrated photovoltaic (PV) manufacturers, which markets its products under the brand "Yingli Solar," on May 11th, 2011 announced certain business updates. Based upon preliminary data for the first quarter of 2011, Yingli Green Energy expects to report that shipment in the first quarter decreased by a low teen percentage from the fourth quarter 2010, and gross margin will be in the estimated range of 27% to 27.5%. Read more

Arizona Public Service customer?s renewable energy usage grew by 26% in 2010

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 0:35 (PV-Tech)

In its recent official report to the Arizona Corporation Commission, Arizona Public Service (APS) revealed that in 2010 its customers received 826,534MWh of renewable energy; a 26% improvement over 2009. In fact, APS received so much renewable energy last year that it exceeded Arizona?s energy goals for the third straight year. Over 3% of all its customer?s electric needs were met with renewable energy in 2010, ensuring APS that it remains on track to reach 10% from renewable by 2015 and 15% by 2025. Read more

3TIER Names Craig Husa as New CEO

Thursday, 5.12.2011 - 0:12 (Renewable Energy World)

3TIER®, a global leader in renewable energy risk analysis, today announced that Craig Husa has been named Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Husa brings over twenty years of executive leadership experience in high-growth, technology companies. He previously served as CEO of break-through companies including NeuralIQ, General Software, and Healia. He also founded CourtLink Corporation which was acquired by LexisNexis. Read more