PV mounting systems: Powerway Renewable expands PowerScrew System from northwestern to eastern China

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 18:53 (Solarserver)

On September 13th, 2011, Powerway Renewable Energy Co. Ltd. (Guangdong Province, China) announced that it has successfully installed its PowerScrew System in two ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants with installations of more than 30 MW. Read more

A day in the country to reduce your carbon footprint

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 16:58 (Solarpowerportal)

Family run events business A Day In The Country has taken advantage of solar energy by installing a 22.88kWp ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) system in Banbury, Oxfordshire. Read more

Order Focus: Singulus touts equipment sales at EU PVSEC

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 15:51 (PV-Tech)

The first to tout new order bookings directly from the EU PVSEC event, held last week in Hamburg, Germany goes to Singulus Technologies. The company noted that it received an unspecified number of orders for its ?VITRUM? wet-chemical processing system for thin film solar modules. Read more

Solution and System presents integrated PV manufacturing package

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 13:42 (Solarserver)

Solution and System Inc. (S+S, Hackensack, New Jersey, U.S.) has launched a new service to allow customers to build their own post-laminate solar photovoltaic (PV) modules under their own branding. S+S states that LETO Solar can provide a 10 MW PV module factory with less than USD 50,000 in upfront equipment costs, and 30 to 60 day payment terms. Read more

Concentrating solar power: Thermal Engineering International, Struthers Wells to supply components for 280 MW CSP plant in Southwestern U.S.

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 18:55 (Solarserver)

On September 15th, 2011, Thermal Engineering International Inc. (TEi, Santa Fe Springs, California, U.S.) and Struthers Wells (Houston, Texas, U.S.) announced that they have been awarded a contract to equip an un-named 280 MW concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in the Southwest region of the United States. TEi will supply ten feedwater heaters and two moisture separators, and Struthers Wells will supply oil to salt heat exchangers. Read more

Verengo Solar Plus expands operations into New Jersey

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 18:54 (Solarserver)

On September 13th, 2011, Verengo Solar Plus (Orange, Calif.) announced that it is expanding its operations into New Jersey, which is one of America's hottest home solar markets. In August 2011, Verengo Solar Plus opened its Iselin office. Read more

PV production: Ferro debuts over a dozen of metallization pastes at solar exhibition in Germany

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 18:54 (Solarserver)

On September 12th, 2011, Ferro Electronic Materials (Cleveland, Ohio), supplier of materials for fabricating photovoltaic (PV) silicon solar cells for more than 30 years, has introduced more than a dozen of metallization pastes at the 26th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (PVSEC). Read more

TV Audiences Will Get Different View of Solar

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 17:37 (Renewable Energy World)

This weekend, the solar industry is trading in the hot lights of the Congressional interrogation chamber for the bright lights of television. In a week that’s been dominated by headlines about the growing Solyndra scandal, primetime television viewers and rapid sports junkies can catch a glimpse of the reality that’s been lost in recent days: Solar panels can generate more than just politically supercharged outrage. They also generate power. And is there anywhere better to generate that power than along the red carpet of Hollywood and atop the slice of American culture that is football Sunday? Just outside Washington (ironic, isn’t it?), the Washington Read more

Barnsley-based business reduces solar ROI to just four years

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 17:35 (Solarpowerportal)

Yorkshire Solar Buyers Group (YSBG) claims it is offering the best solar power deal in the UK, providing customers with a payback period as low as four years. Operated by BGen the Barnsley-based business is able to sell solar panel installations at low prices by buying systems in volume. Read more

Pure Fantasy On Green Manufacturing, Solar Jobs and The Mainstream Media

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 16:40 (Renewable Energy World)

Over the last 36 months, more than 100 new U.S. renewable energy and energy efficiency manufacturing plants have opened in the United States. Read more

Gehrlicher Solar sells 5 PV power plants in Italy

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 16:04 (PV-Tech)

Berlin-based White Owl Capital had acquired 5 PV power plants built by Gehrlicher Solar Italia, a subsidiary of Gehrlicher Solar for an undisclosed sum. Using First Solar CdTe thin film modules and SMA inverters, all the plants were grid connected before feed-in tariffs were reduced at the end of August, 2011. The projects, with a total power of 10.4MWp, are situated in the regions of Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. Read more

NLP Solar Sales Training Webinar September 28th & 29th

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 16:03 (Renewable Energy World)

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Tilbury Solar and Amherstburg II Solar projects completed by First Solar

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 15:23 (PV-Tech)

First Solar has completed two PV power plants in Ontario, Canada for Enbridge. The smaller, 5MW Tilbury Solar Project uses 82,500 CdTe modules, while the Amherstburg II Project, split over two sites of 10MW and 5MW, employs 244,000 of the same First Solar modules. Combined costs of the projects were said to been approximately CAD$90 million. Read more

The Question Day 4: How Can the U.S. Solar Industry Meet Expectations?

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 15:00 (Renewable Energy World)

RenewableEnergyWorld asked solar executives and our social media community to lend their voices and define what three strategies they think will lead to a thriving solar industry. Answers were varied, and many valid opinions were brought to light. Responses will be updated here daily, and feel free to look at previous insights by clicking on the page links below. Read more

Premier Power expects revenue of reaching up to US$120.0 million in 2011

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 14:49 (PV-Tech)

California-based EPC and project developer, Premier Power expects 2011 revenue of between US$100.0 million and US$120.0 million, up from US$87 million in 2010. Growth was attributed to growth in the EU and US. Premier Power noted that it had a project pipeline of over 100MWp in Bulgaria and a deal with Teichert to build large scale utility solar power plants in the US put at 300MW. Read more

DuPont Apollo modules used in completed 8.7MW solar farm in Thailand

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 14:12 (PV-Tech)

A 8.7MW solar farm in the Prachin Buri Province of Thailand has been completed using DuPont Apollo thin film modules. Built in collaboration with L Solar 1 Company and Loxley Plc, said to be one of Thailand?s largest IT conglomerates, the solar farm will be grid-connected by the fourth quarter of 2011. the plant is expected to have an average production capacity of 12,000,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) per year. Read more

Enbridge, First Solar complete 20 MW of PV plants in Ontario

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 13:35 (Solarserver)

On September 15th and 16th, 2011, Enbridge Inc. (Calgary, Canada) and First Solar Inc. (Tempe, Arizona, U.S.) celebrated the completion of the 5 MW Tilbury Solar Project and the 15 MW Amherstburg II Solar Project. The two solar photovoltaic (PV) projects are located in Tilbury and Amherstburg in the Canadian province of Ontario and utilize First Solar thin film PV modules. The projects represent a total cost of USD 90 million. Read more

Advanced Energy to demonstrate solar energy grid integration system technology in Portland, Oregon

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 13:33 (Solarserver)

Advanced Energy Industries Inc. (Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.) has announced that it will demonstrate its Solar Energy Grid Integration System (SEGIS) technology during an event on September 20th, 2011 in Portland, Oregon, United States. During the event Advanced Energy and project partners will showcase technologies to address key challenges facing high solar photovoltaic (PV) penetration into the electrical grid, developed through its stage 3 SEGIS contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Read more

Clean Power Finance awarded SunShot grant by DOE

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 12:51 (PV-Tech)

The US Department of Energy has awarded Clean Power Finance a US$3 million grant through its SunShot Initiative. This money will be used to fund the development of a database and software to reduce solar permitting and data management costs throughout the US. Clean Power Finance?s proposed database will contain crowd-sourced information supplied from various stakeholders, including solar professionals and organisations. Read more

California County approves permits for first phases of California Valley Solar Ranch, Topaz Solar Project

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 10:59 (Solarserver)

The County of San Luis Obispo, California, has approved the initial permits to begin construction on the first phases of two enormous solar photovoltaic (PV) plants, the 550 MW Topaz Solar Project and the 250 MW California Valley Solar Ranch. On September 6th, 2011, the county issued permits to SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California, U.S.) for the first phase 18 MW phase of the CVSR, and on September 13th, 2011, granted First Solar permission to begin work on the first 8 MW phase of the Topaz project. Read more

Malaysia Explores Its Renewables Options

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 15:00 (Renewable Energy World)

Malaysia's potential for renewable energy generation is substantial. Its equatorial location is superb for solar, and its extensive tropical forests can supply large quantities of biomass. Hydropower already plays a significant part of the nation's energy mix, particularly on the island of Borneo, and mini-hydropower from streams and rivers has boosted the electricity supply in rural areas. Read more

U.S. House holds hearing investigating DOE loan guarantee to bankrupt PV producer Solyndra

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 13:38 (Solarserver)

On September 14th, 2011, officials from two federal agencies attended a U.S. House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing investigating the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) approval of a USD 535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra Inc. (Fremont, California, U.S.). The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations has been investigating Solyndra for seven months, and has used the process to call into question the entire DOE loan guarantee process. Read more

It's Time to Kill the Car Culture, Drive a Stake Through Its Heart, and Electrify Mobility

Friday, 9.16.2011 - 16:38 (Renewable Energy World)

My friend and colleague John Petersen has it in for the electric car. Recently he wrote a summary of his anti-electric car views, entitled "It's Time to Kill the Electric Car, Drive a Stake Through its Heart and Burn the Corpse." Did I mention he also has a flair for the dramatic? Read more