New ownership structure prompts changes to Conergy Supervisory Board

Friday, 7.15.2011 - 15:10 (PV-Tech)

Conergy?s entire Supervisory Board will resign upon the conclusion the company?s Annual General Meeting on 26 August. These mass resignations are the result of the imminent changes to the company?s ownership structure, which will be finalised after the conclusion of the subscription period for the cash capital increase. Read more

Siemens to supply inverters, transformers for 20 MW Idaho PV plant

Friday, 7.15.2011 - 13:20 (Solarserver)

On July 13th, 2011, Siemens Industry Inc. (Buffalo Grove, Illinois, U.S.) announced that it has received an order from Interconnect Solar Development LLC (Boise, Idaho, U.S.) to supply inverters, transformers and containers for a 20 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant to be located in the U.S. state of Idaho. The Murphy Flats PV plant will be the first PV plant in Idaho Power Company's (Boise, Idaho, U.S.) service area, as well as the largest PV plant within several states in the region. The plant will use 1000V-DC inverters along with 1000V-DC PV modules. Read more

ACT?s feed-in tariff scheme is closed ? again

Friday, 7.15.2011 - 11:40 (PV-Tech)

Less than two weeks after Australia?s Capital Territory small-scale feed-in tariff was revived, the state has closed the scheme ? again ? to new participants. Having reached full capacity by midnight on the July 13, the program shutters were pulled down for what looks to be the final time. Read more

Payom Solar AG receives contract for the construction of a free-field solar plant in Melle

Friday, 7.15.2011 - 19:02 (Solarserver)

Payom Solar AG (Merkendorf, Germany), a manufacturer-independent system supplier of solar photovoltaic (PV) plants, profits increasingly from more and more municipal utilities investing in renewable energies. Through its subsidiary SOLEN Energy GmbH, Payom awarded a contract for the planning and construction of a free-field solar plant with a performance of about 2 megawatt (MW). The Teutoburger Energie Netzwerk e.G. (TEN) is the principal for the power plant in Melle. Read more

Order Focus: DEGERenergie supplies Convergence Energy with trackers for 1MW solar farm in Wisconsin

Friday, 7.15.2011 - 17:02 (PV-Tech)

Convergence Energy?s 1MW solar farm in Delavan, Wisconsin is underway, and DEGERenergie has supplied 114 of its MLD tracking systems of the DEGERtraker 6000NT for the project. Fifteen of these systems have already been implemented at the Delavan location, with the remaining 99 planned for installation over the coming weeks. Read more

NREL testing confirms 16.3% efficiency for XsunX CIGSolar

Friday, 7.15.2011 - 16:52 (Solarserver)

XsunX, Inc. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), the developer of CIGSolar, a hybrid, thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar cell manufacturing process, on July 12th, 2011 announced that the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) certified the peak efficiency conversion of 16.36% achieved by XsunX, Inc. for Copper-Indium-Gallium-(di)selenide (CIGS) photovoltaic devices. Read more

San Francisco launches group solar purchase program for businesses

Friday, 7.15.2011 - 16:51 (Solarserver)

On July 13th, 2011, the City of San Francisco, California launched a new program that offers group purchase and financing options for businesses to install solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, which it says is the first program of its kind in the United States. The City expects to assist in the installation of more than 2 MW of PV plants through its Solar@Work program by the end of 2011. Read more

Organic Energy will now supply SCHOTT Solar PV products

Friday, 7.15.2011 - 16:14 (Solarpowerportal)

Organic Energy has now secured an agreement to supply SCHOTT Solar PV products, providing the company with an opportunity to enter into the agricultural sector. SCHOTT’s power modules have been independently tested and approved to withstand exposure to the ammonia produced in livestock farming environments for at least 25 years. Read more

Q-Cells signs sponsorship deal with Borussia Dortmund

Friday, 7.15.2011 - 15:37 (PV-Tech)

Q-Cells has signed a five-year sponsorship deal to become a ?Champion Partner? of German football giants Borussia Dortmund. As part of the agreement, the recently-crowned Bundesliga champions have also agreed to install a 920kW solar array on the roof of their Westfalenstadion stadium. Read more

House of Lords displays unanimous support for solar

Friday, 7.15.2011 - 15:28 (Solarpowerportal)

Forming a positive response to the debate surrounding the fast-track feed-in tariff review, Lords from all sides of the House yesterday came out in unanimous support for solar. Going along with the recommendations of the Solar Trade Association, the Lords agreed that solar had been treated unfairly, and that policy decisions had been made without due consideration. Read more

LDK Solar to supply 35 MW of PV modules to Chinese electricity companies

Friday, 7.15.2011 - 13:22 (Solarserver)

On July 13th, 2011, LDK Solar Company Ltd. (Xinyu City, China) announced that it has signed contracts to supply 35 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules to two electric power companies in China. The first contract is for a 30 MW of PV modules to be delivered to Qinghai province in August 2011. The second is to supply 5 MW of PV modules to Jilin province in the first half of 2012. Read more

Mercom Capital: Big M&A activity as solar VC funding, debt funding decline in 2Q 2011

Friday, 7.15.2011 - 13:18 (Solarserver)

On July 12th, 2011, Mercom Capital Group LLC (Austin, Texas, U.S.) released its report on the movement of capital in the global solar sector during the second quarter of 2011, recording USD 3.27 billion in various forms of investments during the quarter. The company's "Solar Funding and M&A 2Q 2011 Report" notes decreases in venture capital funding, project funding and debt funding from highs in the first quarter of 2011, but a large increase in the value of merger and acquisition activity, which reached USD 2.30 billion. Read more

Aide Solar partners with Folium Energy to develop 150 MW of distributed PV in California

Friday, 7.15.2011 - 13:15 (Solarserver)

On July 12th, 2011, Aide Solar (Xuzhou, City, China) announced that it will collaborate with Folium Energy LLC (Addison, Texas) on a project to build 150 MW of distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) plants in California over the next year. The project will involve PV plants between 100kW and 1.5 MW at 710 sites in 35 different counties throughout California, with the first installations to begin in the fourth quarter of 2011. Read more

Order Focus: Phono Solar extends module supply agreement with Sybac

Friday, 7.15.2011 - 11:21 (PV-Tech)

Sybac Photovoltaics has placed an order with Phono Solar for 10MW of its mono and polycrystalline silicon solar modules. The order, which will be delivered before the end of 2011, is the latest step in a strategic partnership between the two firms to install utility-scale projects throughout the US. Read more

Peabody will bring 6MW of solar power to the London boroughs

Friday, 7.15.2011 - 10:31 (Solarpowerportal)

Signing off on one of the largest solar deals in the UK, the Peabody Group, which includes London housing associations Peabody and CBHA, has selected building contractor Breyer Group to install, monitor and maintain solar panels across 25 London boroughs. Read more

Hedging Against Wind Variability: A Risky Business?

Friday, 7.15.2011 - 15:00 (Renewable Energy World)

Last May, renewable energy risk analysis company 3TIER and weather risk management outfit Galileo announced the launch of WindLock ? a financial product designed to assist the wind power industry in hedging the financial risk of wind variability. So, how has the product been received by the industry ? and can it, and products like it, ever replace the need for real-time on-site data collection? Read more

New skills in Natural Power North America as company welcomes DD expert Gary Winslow

Friday, 7.15.2011 - 12:09 (Renewable Energy World)

Leading renewable energy consultancy group, Natural Power, has further strengthened its services in North America by bringing technical due diligence expert Gary Winslow to manage the company's Due Diligence activities in the US. Winslow joins Natural Power following an extensive career in the wind industry across engineering, manufacturing and installation disciplines for utility scale wind turbines and plants. Read more