News of the year 2011

Date: 28.06.2011



Photovoltaics

Gebäude-Solarsysteme prepares to commence solar module production using Day4?s DNA technology

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 21:00 (PV-Tech)

Gebäude-Solarsysteme (GSS) and Day4 Energy mutually revealed that GSS has successfully completed the integration of Day4?s process equipment technology into its existing production line. GSS plans to start manufacturing and delivering commercial volume shipments of its solar modules using Day4?s DNA technology by the first week of July. All upgrades to GSS?s module production facility were completed by Day4 Energy?s engineering team in June. Read more

SMA Releases Most Efficient High-Frequency, Slim-Line Inverter on the Market

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 20:49 (Renewable Energy World)

SMA America is now shipping the Sunny Boy HF-US line of high-frequency, residential solar inverters. SMA's most installer-friendly models to date, the UL-Certified Sunny Boy 2000HF-US, 2500HF-US and 3000HF-US grid-tied inverters feature a slim enclosure, reduced weight, modern graphic display and industry-leading CEC efficiencies. Read more

GTM Research launches U.S. utility PV market tracker

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 19:18 (Solarserver)

On June 24th, 2011, Greentech Media Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.) announced the launch of a new service which tracks solar photovoltaic (PV) plants on the utility side of the meter in the United States. GTM Research's "Utility PV Market Tracker" includes a database of every operating and contracted utility PV project in the nation, as well as quarterly utility market updates and analysis. Read more

Order Focus: SoLayTec shipping first four ALD tools to customers

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 17:20 (PV-Tech)

TNO spin-off company, SoLayTec has sold the first four of its Al2O3 ultrafast ALD (atomic layer deposition) Process Development Tools (PDT) to separate customers that include imec, Fraunhofer ISE and two unidentified Asia-based solar cell manufacturers. SoLayTec said that the tools would be installed in the third and fourth quarter of 2011. Read more

PV manufacturing equipment: Meyer Burger acquires majority stake in Roth & Rau

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 11:49 (Solarserver)

On June 24th, 2011, Meyer Burger Technology Ltd. (Baar, Switzerland) announced that it has acquired more than 75% of the shares of Roth & Rau AG (Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Germany) at the close of a voluntary public tender offer. Through the offer, Meyer Burger acquired 33% of the share capital and voting rights of Roth & Rau, after acquiring more than 40% through other means. Read more

Chinese PV producer ReneSola announces management appointments; VP of finance to become CFO

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 11:28 (Solarserver)

ReneSola Ltd. (Jiashan, China), a global manufacturer of solar photovoltaic (PV) products, on June 24th, 2011 announced that its chief financial officer, Ms. Julia Xu, will resign from the Company to pursue other career interests. Mr. Henry Wang, ReneSola's current vice president of finance, has been appointed as the Company's new chief financial officer. In addition, Mr. Tony Hung has been appointed vice president of international corporate finance and corporate communications. Read more

Photovoltaic Nation - U.S. Policy Moving Forward

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 11:03 (Renewable Energy World)

Geopolitical messages have become increasingly evident in U.S. rhetoric supporting photovoltaics (PV). Across from rising industrial and technological powers in Asia, PV in the U.S. has been portrayed as a commodity, consumer product, cutting-edge technology and the key driver for the next generation in innovative, globally competitive U.S. manufacturing. The spotlight on PV and the renewable energy sector as a whole has shone all the brighter as reverberations from Libya and the Middle East hit U.S. gas pumps. Read more

Philip Ackerman-Leist to Be Keynote Speaker at SolWest Fair

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 0:56 (Renewable Energy World)

Solar energy, wind power, sustainable living and traditional skills are featured at SolWest Fair July 29-31 in John Day, Oregon. Keynote speaker Philip Ackerman-Leist is an off-grid homesteader, farmer, and college professor in Vermont. His family lives with photovoltaics, solar thermal hot water, and a small wind turbine. He is experimenting with extended grazing and dairy products with his grass-fed herd of American Milking Devon cattle. Philip's background includes farming, carpentry, studying and teaching in North Carolina, Europe and China. He has a longstanding interest in disappearing agricultural and food traditions. Read more


Thermal Power/Heating

Construction of GSA Denver Federal Center?s nearly 7MW PV system nears completion

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 22:21 (PV-Tech)

The 6.7MW solar installation at the US General Services Administration (GSA) Denver Federal Center (DFC) is almost complete with all solar installations on the GSA DFC campus anticipated to be online by the end of the year. The latest solar installation has been combined with DFC?s 1.2MW solar park, which was installed in 2007. GSA secured added funding in 2009 to construct the 6.7MW solar installation that is currently being completed. Read more

National Solar Power narrows list of possible sites for 400MW of PV projects in southeast US

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 21:56 (PV-Tech)

National Solar Power has selected seven counties located in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina as contenders for the 400MW solar installation the company plans to develop. Heralded by National Solar Power as the largest solar farm in the world, the solar project is comprised of 20 related 200-acre solar farms that each generates 20MW of solar power. Read more

TecnoSun Solar sets up its US headquarters and manufacturing facility in Ohio

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 20:38 (PV-Tech)

TecnoSun Solar Systems? US Division, TecnoSun Solar USA, is settling into its new US headquarters at the University of Toledo?s Nietzsche Commercialization Complex in Ohio. The site will be the home base for the company?s marketing, sales, manufacturing, installation and servicing of its 1 and 2 axis solar tracking systems in North America. Read more

PV producer Hanwha SolarOne bolsters management team with new appointments

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 19:18 (Solarserver)

Hanwha SolarOne Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China) on June 27th, 2011 announced that the Company's Board of Directors has appointed Mr. Ki-Joon HONG as chief executive officer, Mr. Jung Pyo SEO as chief financial officer, Mr. Chris Eberspacher as chief technology officer, and Mr. Justin Koo Yung LEE as chief commercial officer. Read more

Expect more tariff cuts down under

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 16:57 (PV-Tech)

Yet more uncertainty overshadowed Australia?s solar industry at the end of last week as the South Australian Government discussed the future of the state?s feed-in tariff. Having originally planned to increase the incentive rate from 44c to 54c, plus a mandatory additional contribution from electricity retailers, the Government is now tipped to keep the tariff at 44c until the end of September for solar households entering the scheme. Read more

altE, Solar Panel Distributor, Makes Products More Accessible to Solar Installers in New England

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 15:55 (Renewable Energy World)

altE, a leading distributor of solar panel and solar power products, has recently completed the transition from a third party to an in-house warehouse facility located at the company's headquarters in Hudson, MA. This move, enables more direct, quality service given to all of altE's solar installer and do-it-yourself customers throughout the USA, but especially those located in the New England region. Read more

Standard Solar to be Recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative for Meeting its Commitment to "Fight Global Warming One Roof at a Time"

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 15:09 (Renewable Energy World)

Standard Solar, Inc., today announced it has been recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) as a featured example of a new domestic business venture that has succeeded at becoming a fast-growth solar service company. Standard Solar and its Founder Neville Williams are participating in the invitation-only CGI America on June 29-30 in Chicago. Standard Solar is one of six organizations highlighted by the CGI, which was founded by President Bill Clinton to solve world problems. Read more

MOTECH joins CALSEIA

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 14:40 (Renewable Energy World)

Motech Americas LLC, Delaware based solar panel subsidiary of Motech Industries, Inc. (TWO: 6244) ("MOTECH"), announced today that it becomes a member of the California Solar Energy Industries Association ("CALSEIA"). Read more

PV Crystalox warns declining wafer prices could lead to loss in H2 2011

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 13:03 (PV-Tech)

Despite cost reductions achieved ahead of schedule in polysilicon and wafer production, PV Crystalox Solar has warned that continued weakness in the PV industry could result in the wafer supplier generating losses in the second half of the year. Read more

China Sunergy to invest USD 280 million in 1GW solar PV cell production expansion

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 12:18 (Solarserver)

China Sunergy Co., Ltd. (Nanjing), a specialized solar photovoltaic (PV) cell and module manufacturer, on June 27th, 2011 announced that its fully owned subsidiaries China Sunergy (HK) Co., Ltd. and China Sunergy (CSUN, Nanjing) Co., Ltd. are to increase China Sunergy's annual silicon PV cell production capacity by co-investing in a 1GW solar cells expansion project in Yangzhou City situated in Jiangsu Province, China. The first batch of 500MW solar cells production line is expected to be commercialized in the first half of 2012. Read more

MAGE SOLAR features US-Produced UL-certified MAGE POWERTEC PLUS PV modules at Intersolar North America

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 12:10 (Solarserver)

MAGE SOLAR USA (DUBLIN, Ga.), part of the globally operating MAGE GROUP, presents its extensive photovoltaic (PV) product and service portfolio at Intersolar North America in San Francisco's Moscone Center at Booth 7223 (Level 1). MAGE SOLAR's signature high-efficiency MAGE POWERTEC PLUS modules are now produced at the company's North American Headquarters in Dublin, Georgia. Read more

Spanish Government selects SolarReserve's concentrating solar thermal project in competitive tender

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 12:08 (Solarserver)

Termosolar Alcazar, a 50/50 joint venture between SolarReserve (Santa Monica, California, U.S.), a U.S. developer of utility-scale solar power projects and Preneal S.A. (Madrid), a Spanish developer of renewable energy projects, on June 27th, 2011 announced the Spanish government's award of tender for the venture's 50 megawatt (MW) solar thermal plant to be built in Alcazar de San Juan. Read more

Solar PV mounting solutions: Applied Energy Technologies announces expansion of manufacturing in Ontario, Canada

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 11:59 (Solarserver)

Applied Energy Technologies (AET, Maumee, Ohio), provider of solar mounting solutions, in June 2011 announced they are manufacturing their "Rayport" solar mounting system in Ontario, Canada. "AET is pleased to add their racking products to Canada's environmentally responsible market. Having the mounting solutions manufactured locally in Canada enables Canadian customers to take full advantage of the government incentives", the company emphasizes. Read more

Solar Frontier CIS modules to power 3.8MW U.S. PV plant

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 11:56 (Solarserver)

On June 27th, 2011, Solar Frontier K.K. (Tokyo, Japan) announced that it has been selected by Juwi Solar Inc. (Boulder, Colorado, U.S.) to supply its copper indium selenium (CIS) solar photovoltaic (PV) modules for what will be the largest CIS PV plant in North America. Juwi expects to complete the 3.8MW plant by the end of 2011. Read more

New York State Assembly fails to vote on Solar Jobs Act

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 11:41 (Solarserver)

The New York State Assembly closed its 2011 session without votes on two bills that would require a minimum amount of solar generation and create a solar renewable energy credit (SREC) system. The "New York solar industry development and jobs act of 2011" had passed the state's Senate Energy and Telecommunications Committee, but did not come up for a vote. A similar bill has expired in the state's Assembly. Read more

NREL, German solar energy researchers to work together; scientists from the nations to collaborate on next-generation PV and fuels

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 11:28 (Solarserver)

German and American researchers will work together more closely on solar energy topics as a result of a Memo of Understanding (MOU) between the U.S. Department of Energy?s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the German Helmholtz Association. The MOU identifies several key solar energy topics to explore for joint research cooperation. Read more

Converteam reaches 100MWp in solar PV inverters eighteen months after entering the European market

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 11:28 (Solarserver)

Less than eighteen months after entering the solar photovoltaic (PV) market, power conversion specialist Converteam (Massy, France) announces it has reached 100MWp cumulated orders of its inverter solutions dedicated to the utility-scale solar PV farm market. These orders were awarded in Germany, France (including French overseas departments and territories), the United Kingdom and Italy with the largest project being a 12MWp farm in Sietzsch (with Green Energy 3000 GmbH), which is one of the major photovoltaic installations in Germany. Read more

SolarReserve, Preneal to build 50MW solar thermal project

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 11:04 (PV-Tech)

SolarReserve?s joint venture with Preneal has won a tender from the Spanish Government to build a 50MW solar thermal plant in Alcázar de San Juan. The Termosolar Alcázar project will be powered by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne?s dispatchable molten salt concentrated solar power tower. Read more

Westcott wins the war

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 10:59 (Solarpowerportal)

The DECC may have won the feed-in tariff battle, but this solar power project has certainly won the war. With the opening phase of the Westcott Solar Park now switched on and connected to the grid, the project confirms its place as one of the first large-scale projects to be completed in the UK. Situated on the runway of a former Battle of Britain airfield, the plant has been developed by property company Rockspring to provide power to the Westcott... Read more


Biomass/Pellets

Video Update: Engineering a Cleaner Way to Fly

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 16:10 (Renewable Energy World)

Second generation aviation biofuels are getting ready for takeoff. Read more


Wind Energy

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Hydropower

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Hydrogen/Fuel Cell

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Geo Thermal/Heat Pump

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Energy Policy/Climate/CO2

David Lentsch joins 8minutenergy Renewables as VP of origination

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 20:14 (PV-Tech)

8minutenergy Renewables has selected David Lentsch, a 25-year expert in mid-to-large utility-scale renewable and alternative energy projects as its new vice president of origination. Working in the past with several utilities such as PG&E and SDG&E, Lentsch is credited with spearheading the development of more than 550MW of renewable energy projects in North and South America and Asia. Read more

U.S. House subcommittee investigates DOE loan guarantee process

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 19:18 (Solarserver)

On June 24th, 2011, the U.S. Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing investigating the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) use of funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The investigation is focused on the receipt of a USD 535 million loan guarantee by Solyndra Inc. (Fremont, California, U.S.). Read more

Consumer Study, Corporate Index Point to Need for Transparency

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 16:07 (Renewable Energy World)

You're in the grocery store and you are deciding between two products. They're the same price, but only one was made with clean energy. For most consumers, that's a pretty easy decision. It's also a scenario that doesn't quite exist -- at least not yet. Read more

Asian Development Bank President Kuroda: "Radical" action needed to advance renewable energy, energy efficiency

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 11:29 (Solarserver)

On June 22nd, 2011, Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda stated that Asia must "take radical steps" to increase energy efficiency and renewable energy at the 6th Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) in Manila. ADB President Kuroda also emphasized the need for new business models and policies to support the shift to clean energy, a theme of the conference. Read more

US Energy Secretary visits new Amonix production facility

Tuesday, 6.28.2011 - 10:16 (PV-Tech)

While Barack Obama may have reneged on his promise to put solar panels on the roof of the White House by the end of spring, the US Government shows no sign of backtracking on his other solar commitments, with further evidence of this seen last Thursday as Energy Secretary Steven Chu paid a visit to Amonix?s new production facility in Las Vegas. Read more


Solar-/Electromobil

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