News of the year 2012
Date: 31.10.2012
Amonix achieves 34.2% module efficiency
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 19:09 (PV-Tech)
Struggling concentrator photovoltaics (CPV) manufacturer Amonix has announced a module efficiency rating of 34.2%, as confirmed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Read moreConergy installs 900kWp off-grid PV system in India
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 18:25 (PV-Tech)
German PV project developer Conergy has completed the installation of a 900kWp off-grid PV project for the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department (MPFD), a forest service agency in Madhya Pradesh, India. Read moreIndonesia?s LEN Industri and Pertamina partner to build 60MW PV production plant
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 13:23 (PV-Tech)
Indonesian state-owned companies LEN Industri and Pertamina have joined forces to build a 60MW solar cell production plant in Bandung, the capital of West Java province. Read moreMitsui to build 23 MW PV plant in Hokkaido
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 11:06 (Solarserver)
On October 29th, 2012, Mitsui Fudosan Company Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) announced that it will build a 23 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. The company plans to start construction on the plant in Tomakomai (Hokkaido, Japan) in November 2012, with commissioning scheduled for 2013. Electricity from the 37 hectare plant will be sold to Hokkaido Electric Power Company (Sapporo, Japan) under a 20-year contract. Read morePower-One revenues increase to USD 284 million in 3Q 2012; inverter shipments driven by PV installations in North America and Asia-Pacific
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 9:50 (Solarserver)
Power-One Inc. (Camarillo, California, U.S.) has released financial results for the third quarter of 2012, reporting a 16% year-over-year increase in revenues to USD 284 million, an operating margin of 15% and a net income of USD 21.1 million. While Power-One's Renewable Energy Solutions division increased to USD 216 million in revenues, its Power Solutions division revenues fell to USD 67 million. The board of directors of Power-One has additionally approved a share repurchase program. Read moreREC Solar, Kenyon Energy build 2 MW of PV at three Maryland schools
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 21:16 (Solarserver)
The PV arrays will cover eight acres and will provide electricity for North Caroline High School, Colonial Richardson Middle and High Schools and Greensboro Elementary School. They will be the largest public school solar project on Maryland's Eastern Shore. REC Solar (San Luis Obispo, California, U.S.) announced that it has completed three solar photovoltaic (PV) system installations totaling 2 megawatts (MW) of electricity generation capacity at schools across Maryland's Eastern Shore. Read moreConcentrating solar power: Aalborg's 650 tons CSP steam generator system is ready for installation on site in Rajasthan, India
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 21:06 (Solarserver)
In mid-October 2012, the steam generator system for the 50 MW Godawari concentrating solar power (CSP) Project, delivered by Aalborg CSP & Sojitz Corporation (Aalborg, Denmark), was handed over to the EPC company Lauren CCL Engineers Pvt. Ltd., that is constructing the plant. With the delivery of the steam generator system, the solar project has reached an important milestone towards completion of the plant. The CSP plant located in the Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan in India is expected to start commercial operation in spring 2013 and is expected to generate 130 GWh annually. Read moreSuncycle assigned to junction box repair programme
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 18:33 (PV-Tech)
Insurers acting for bankrupted company Scheuten Solar Holding have assigned Suncycle to roll out a repair programme for Scheuten modules with defective junction boxes. Read moreOrder Focus: JinkoSolar supplies 5.7MW PV modules to German mine
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 18:23 (PV-Tech)
Shanghai-based module manufacturer JinkoSolar has announced it has supplied 5.7MW of PV modules to an 11.6MW solar power station in Germany. Read moreEnerparc builds 52.7MW PV plant in Brandenburg
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 17:32 (PV-Tech)
EPC specialist Enerparc has finished building and connected a 52.7MW solar park in Brandenburg, Germany. Read moreKyocera solar sales decline
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 16:41 (PV-Tech)
Sales of solar modules at Kyocera declined in the first six months of its 2013 financial year, compared to the same period a year ago. Read moreSolar Equipment Maker GT Advanced Technologies Lays Off 25 Percent of Workforce
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 16:23 (Renewable Energy World)
Responding to projections that the solar panel module overcapacity will continue for at least another year, solar equipment maker GT Advanced Technologies today announced a restructuring plan. The company will lay off approximately 25 percent of its workforce and consolidate its existing business units into a single Crystal Growth Systems (CGS) group. Read moreThe Question Day 21: What is the Most Difficult Issue Facing the Solar Industry?
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 16:00 (Renewable Energy World)
It's been a year of both continued expansion and mounting challenges for the global solar industry. RenewableEnergyWorld asked solar industry executives to share their thoughts and insights on one burning question: Read moreSolar Energy and the Mobile Wave
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 15:59 (Renewable Energy World)
A spectacular event in our world?s history is emerging that will bring unparalleled change. As the fifth wave of the Information Revolution is upon us, the deployment of the ?Mobile Internet? is disrupting the status quo of business and communications as it grows in orders of magnitude beyond belief. The CEO of Google, Larry Page, estimates that Read moreEDF?s Catalina plant to begin operation in December
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 15:39 (PV-Tech)
The first phase of Catalina Solar, EDF Renewable Energy?s 143MWp solar plant in Kern County, California, is to begin operation in December. Read moreGT Advanced Technologies to restructure, lay off 25% of workforce; Company expects solar market to recover over the long term
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 15:28 (Solarserver)
GT Advanced Technologies (Merrimack, New Hampshire, U.S.) has announced that it will restructure its operations, including consolidating its three business units into a single group and reducing global staffing levels by 25%. The company states that these measures will reduce its annual expenses by roughly USD 13 million, and allow it to better align its cost structure with current market conditions. GT also revealed that its revenue for the third quarter of 2012 will be at the low end of its previous guidance of between USD 110 and 140 million. Read moreHanwha SolarOne appoints Min-Su Kim as president
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 15:23 (Solarserver)
Hanwha SolarOne Company Ltd. (Shanghai, China) has announced the appointment of Min-Su Kim as president of the company. The company has also appointed Jeong-Eui Hong as chief technology officer, who will work with Kim to oversee development of solar photovoltaic (PV) technology. Kim has spent 25 years with the Hanwha Group (Seoul, South Korea), including helping to direct the group's entry into the solar industry while part of the Corporate Planning Team of Hanwha Chemical. Read moreSecurum, Serbia Sign Agreement to Build 1,000-MW Solar Park
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 14:00 (Renewable Energy World)
Securum Equity Partners & Associates, a venture management company, said it signed a definitive agreement with Serbia on building the "largestsolar park in the world" in the Balkan country. Read moreTenaska and SDG&E break ground on 130MW PV project
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 13:46 (PV-Tech)
US PV project developer Tenaska has broken ground on its 130MW Tenaska Imperial South solar project located at the company?s Imperial Solar Energy Center South facility near El Centro, California. Read moreSingulus to lay off 40% of workers at subsidiary Singulus Stangl Solar GmbH's Fürstenfeldbruck site
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 11:00 (Solarserver)
Singulus Technologies AG (Kahl am Main, Germany) has released preliminary results for the first nine months of 2012, stating that it expects a 31% year-over year decline in revenues to EUR 83.5 million (USD 108 million) and a negative result of EUR 10.9 million (USD 14.1 million). As a result of this decline, Singulus has announced restructuring measures including laying off 40% of the workers at the Fürstenfeldbruck site of subsidiary Singulus Stangl Solar GmbH (Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany) at the end of 2012. Singulus will also adjust structures and capacities in its wet-chemical divisions as well as capitalized development expenses for solar coating technology. Read moreT-Solar completes 44 MW of PV in Southern Peru
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 9:54 (Solarserver)
Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has attended the inauguration of two solar photovoltaic (PV) plants totaling 44 MW built by the T-Solar Group (Madrid, Spain) in the Arequipa region of Southern Peru. The Distribution (Repartición) and Majes PV plants comprise T-Solar amorphous silicon thin-film PV modules. The company commissioned the two plants in July 2012, making them the first PV plants of this scale to be completed in Latin America. Read moreEDF holds dedication ceremony for Catalina Solar PV project in Southern California
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 9:43 (Solarserver)
EDF Renewable Energy (San Diego, California, U.S.) has held a dedication ceremony for its 143 MW Catalina Solar project and its Pacific Wind project, both of which are located in Southern California's Kern County. EDF states that the first phase of the Catalina Solar project will begin operation in December 2012. Electricity from the solar photovoltaic (PV) plant will be sold to San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E, San Diego, California, U.S.) through a power purchase agreement (PPA). Read moreThere are no news available
Wind Power Investments Nearly Impossible in Finland, Fortum Says
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 14:41 (Renewable Energy World)
It is nearly impossible to carry out wind power investments in Finland because a patchwork of environmental regulation thwarts projects, the country's biggest utility Fortum Oyj said. Read moreThere are no news available
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Solar and Geothermal Tracking Reports: Project Finance Still a Challenge
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 16:03 (Renewable Energy World)
Despite healthy expected returns, finance-related challenges remain the largest barriers to renewable energy development, according to NREL's Renewable Energy Finance Tracking Initiative (REFTI). Read moreSolar and Geothermal Tracking Reports: Project Finance Still Major Challenge
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 16:03 (Renewable Energy World)
Despite healthy expected returns, finance-related challenges remain the largest barriers to renewable energy development, according to NREL's Renewable Energy Finance Tracking Initiative (REFTI). Read moreMaking Ground Source Geothermal a Win-Win Resource for Utilities and Customers
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 14:00 (Renewable Energy World)
In its 75-year history, modern ground source geothermal energy (GSGE) has flown so far under the radar, it might as well lie in your granddad's root cellar. But unlike root cellars, built as crude geothermal systems to preserve perishables in a static environment, a ground source geothermal heat pump (GSGHP) can deliver a dynamic and effective heating or cooling system. Read moreErcam and OCI 400MW JV in Texas
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 17:39 (PV-Tech)
Spanish energy, procurement and construction company and tracker supplier Energia Ercam has formed a joint venture (JV) with South Korean company OCI Enterprises to form Ercam Trackers LLC. OCI subsidiary, OCI Energy, will be a majority shareholder within Ercam Trackers. Read moreAEG and Punjab government sign PV agreement
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 16:03 (PV-Tech)
The Punjab government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with German electricity firm AEG to develop PV projects in the state of Punjab in India. Read morePelamis Set to Expand as Founder Sees Boost in Wave Energy
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 15:35 (Renewable Energy World)
Pelamis Wave Power Ltd., supplier of the world's first multiple-machine wave farm, is in talks on a partnership to expand as it prepares for an influx of orders. Read moreSilent Surcharges: Are All-Energy FITs a Good Idea?
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 15:18 (Renewable Energy World)
Paul Gipe recently wrote a long post on the possibility of introducing feed-in tariffs for fossil fuel or nuclear-generated electricity. Read moreVote Now for Your Favorite Project of the Year! Readers' Choice Voting Closes Friday!
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 14:41 (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/awards/2012/vote Read moreHeseltine: UK needs unambiguous energy policy
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 12:48 (Solarpowerportal)
Lord Heseltine has called for a ?definitive and unambiguous? energy policy for the UK to provide long-term investment certainty for the industry. Read moreScotland targets 50% renewable electricity generation by 2015
Wednesday, 10.31.2012 - 12:13 (Solarpowerportal)
The Scottish National Party (SNP) has set itself a new target of generating 50% of the nation?s electricity from renewable sources by 2015. Read moreThere are no news available