News of the year 2012

Date: 13.04.2012



Photovoltaics

ECM unveils adhesives for OPV market

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 17:17 (Solarserver)

On April 5th, 2012, Engineered Conductive Materials LLC (Delaware, Ohio, U.S.), a global supplier of conductive interconnect materials for photovoltaic (PV) applications, has introduced the low-temperature curing Conductive Adhesive DB-1541-LTC for use in organic light emitting diodes (OLED) and organic photovoltaics (OPV). Read more

eBay installs 665 kW PV system at data center in Utah

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 16:24 (Solarserver)

Online auction company eBay Inc. (San Jose, California, U.S.) has installed a 665 kW solar photovoltaic (PV) power system at its Topaz data center in South Jordan (Utah, U.S.). The PV system designed and installed by SPG Solar, represents less than 10% of the total load of the data center, according to a company?s blog post. Read more

Suniva powers largest utility-scale PV installation in Tennessee

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 13:49 (Solarserver)

Suniva Inc. (Norcross, Ga.) a U.S. manufacturer of high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells and modules, on April 12th, 2012, announced that the 5MW West Tennessee Solar Farm in Haywood County is powered by Suniva. Designed and built by Signal Energy, and managed by the University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF), the West Tennessee Solar Farm is the largest utility scale solar installation in Tennessee and one of the largest installations in the Southeast United States. Read more

PV production: Spire sells module assembly line to Ethiopia

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 12:37 (Solarserver)

Spire Corporation (Beedford, Mass., U.S.), a global company providing solar photovoltaic (PV) equipment and systems on April 12th, 2012, announced that it will provide a 20MW PV module turnkey assembly line to the collaboration of SKY Energy International, Inc. ("SKY") located in Florida and Metals and Engineering Corporation ("METEC") located in Ethiopia. Read more


Thermal Power/Heating

Hanwha Solar opens R&D laboratory in California?s Silicon Valley

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 21:42 (PV-Tech)

Hanwha Solar?s Korea and China PV R&D centres have been joined by a geographically distant sibling with the company opening its latest R&D laboratory in Santa Clara, California. The facility will focus on next-generation PV concepts for efficient, low-cost conversion of solar energy into electricity. Hanwha invested US$14 million to construct the 30,000 square foot site, which it notes was built with room for expansion in mind. Read more

Areva Solar to Build Asia's Largest CSP Plant

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 21:23 (Renewable Energy World)

India's enormous solar potential has until now been seen mostly through the lens of a PV module. But this week's news that Areva Solar is planning a 250-megawatt project in the country's Rajasthan region is noteworthy for its size and its technology. Read more

Gehrlicher Ecoluz Solar completes, connects 408kW Pituaçu football stadium installation in Brazil

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 21:08 (PV-Tech)

Salvador de Bahia?s Pituaçu football stadium is home to Gehrlicher Ecoluz Solar do Brazil?s latest solar project, said to be the first in South America that is built in a football stadium. The company, a joint venture between Gehrlicher Solar and Ecoluz Participacoes advised that the 5,560sqm PV plant was connected to the grid on March 24. Read more

Order Focus: Solaria sales agreements reach ?13 million during Q1 2012

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 20:32 (PV-Tech)

Solaria Energía y Medio Ambiente advised that during 2012?s first quarter, it had closed sales agreements that totalled to more than ?13 million. Agreements with distributers in Italy, Germany and the UK, with project sizes ranging from a few kilowatts to 1 to 2MW, helped the company reach the ?13 million value. Read more

Bringing Solar to the Masses: Community Shared Solar Gains Popularity Nationwide

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 17:54 (Renewable Energy World)

There are a lot of Americans who would love to get their energy from solar, but can't. They live in apartments and condos and don't own their rooftop. Or they do own a home or business, but really like the old oak tree that shades their roof. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) estimated that 75 percent of American residential buildings have physical restrictions to going solar. Other building owners may have a suitable roof but for a variety of reasons may not want to commit to having a solar system installed on their own property. By limiting ourselves to the traditional "panels on your roof" approach to PV, we are leaving a tremendous amount of solar potential Read more

Solar program launched to offer incentives in San Diego, California

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 17:22 (Solarserver)

Sullivan Solar Power (San Diego, California, U.S.) announced that it has launched the San Diego Solar Program. The innovative program allows eligible residents to go solar for no upfront cost and receive a substantial cash payment for their involvement, Sullivan Solar Power announces. The countywide solar program is limited to 500 residences. ?San Diego?s Solar Program is designed in a manner that financially encourages the entire community to go solar,? Sullivan Solar Power Founder and President Daniel Sullivan said. Read more

Steca Electronics unveils new solar thermal controller with Data storage on Micro-SD cards, Internet visualization

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 17:10 (Solarserver)

Steca Electronics (Memmingen, Germany) has introduced a new solar thermal controller, TR A503 TTR. The controller, along with the TR A501 T and TR A502 TT controllers, is the third product in this series, which has a compact designer housing allowing universal use. The TR A503 TTR extends the functionality of the series of devices by providing additional system monitoring functions. Data can be stored on standard Micro-SD cards and Internet visualization is possible via the Steca TK RW2 IFA router. Read more

Silverado provides US$50 million security investment to interconnection generator queue

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 16:46 (PV-Tech)

Silverado Power and Martifer Solar have made a US$50 million interconnection security investment in order to maintain a good position in California?s interconnection generator queue. The interconnection generator queue is part of the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) and the investments are used to upgrade infrastructure and grids. Developers with larger and more viable projects in the queue provide the funding. Read more

Solar3D announces path to commercialization

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 16:36 (Solarserver)

In April 2012 Solar3D Inc. (Santa Barbara, California, U.S.), the developer of a 3-dimensional solar cell technology to maximize the conversion of sunlight into electricity, announced details of its path to commercialization. Solar3D currently is constructing a prototype of its 3-dimensional solar cell on a thin silicon wafer. The company?s management believes that the revolutionary 3D solar cell could enter the market next year. Read more

First Solar announces board of directors reshuffle as José Villarreal retires

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 16:06 (PV-Tech)

Following the retirement of José Villarreal, a member of the board since 2007, First Solar has taken the opportunity to expand its board membership from nine to 11 members. The company has nominated George ?Chip? Hambro, former First Solar COO, and Richard ?Rick? Chapman, CFO of Walton Enterprises, Inc., to stand for election at its annual stockholder meeting on May 23, the latter as an independent director. Read more

juwi announces construction of 20MW Thuringian PV plant

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 15:34 (PV-Tech)

juwi has announced the construction of Thuringia?s biggest PV plant in Ronneburg. The construction of the 20MW solar power plant will begin in April 2012 and the project is expected to commence commercial production in June this year. The energy generated will be fed into the national grid. Read more

FIT and 20-GW National Solar Mission Lose Value in India

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 15:00 (Renewable Energy World)

India faces yet another game-changer: Feed-in-tariffs and the ambitious government-sponsored 20-GW National Solar Mission (NSM) have lost value in India. Read more

FiT and 20-GW National Solar Mission Lose Value in India

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 15:00 (Renewable Energy World)

India faces yet another game-changer: Feed-in-tariffs and the ambitious government-sponsored 20-GW National Solar Mission (NSM) have lost value in India. Read more

Jefferies report: installs will decline but market will remain economically sustainable

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 14:40 (PV-Tech)

Market analysts Jefferies has announced that it believes the Italian government?s revised renewable energy legislation will not have as much of a detrimental affect on the industry as first thought. Alongside lawyers, industry associations and relevant parties within the political process, the report states that the revisions to Conto Energia IV will make the market economically sustainable and plays to the strengths of solar PV as a distributable energy source. Read more

Jefferies report: installs will decline in Italy but market will remain economically sustainable

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 14:40 (PV-Tech)

Market analysts Jefferies has announced that it believes the Italian government?s revised renewable energy legislation will not have as much of a detrimental affect on the industry as first thought. Alongside lawyers, industry associations and relevant parties within the political process, the report states that the revisions to Conto Energia IV will make the market economically sustainable and plays to the strengths of solar PV as a distributable energy source. Read more

New Jersey, New York and Connecticut in position to become a solar industry leader

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 13:55 (Solarserver)

The Regional Plan Association (RPA, New York, U.S.) announced that a new policy brief concludes that the tri-state region New Jersey, New York and Connecticut is, for the first time, positioned to become a national and global player in solar energy. The policy brief is prepared by RPA's energy policy program, Natural Resources Defense Council and the Vote Solar Initiative, and examines the state of solar in the tri-state region, current incentives and installed capacity, and the potential to expand solar further. Read more

LDK Solar announces change to its fourth quarter earnings release date

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 12:51 (Solarserver)

LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (Xinyu City, China), a leading vertically integrated manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) products, on April 10th, 2012, announced that it has changed the release date of its fourth quarter 2011 results originally scheduled for April 12th, 2012, to April 30th, 2012. LDK Solar's management needs additional time to finalize certain items in its fourth quarter 2011 financial results, including an impairment analysis of long-lived assets and an assessment of inventory write-downs and provisions for certain receivables, the company reports. Read more

PV Modules: Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems organizes international workshop on the current state of the affairs in research and industry

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 12:45 (Solarserver)

Given the growing importance of photovoltaics for the provision of electricity from renewable energy sources, the issues of reliability and efficiency of PV modules are becoming increasingly crucial, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE (Freiburg, Germany) reports in a press release. The workshop PV Module Reliability, which will take place on May 3rd and 4th, 2012, in Lugano, is devoted to this complex key topic. Under the auspices of the EU project ?SOPHIA?, Fraunhofer ISE and ISAAC Supsi invite the international public involved in the field of photovoltaics to discuss the current state of the art and to attempt to integrate existing industry requirements Read more

Another Great Example of (Non-Solar) Guerrilla Marketing

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 12:30 (Renewable Energy World)

  I love finding guerrilla marketing examples on YouTube. Unfortunately, I rarely find ones that are related to solar. Bummer. Nevertheless, it’s always great to get inspired, and below is a wonderful model that you might be able to adapt…if you’re willing to push that button. Watch this video first, and then we’ll d Read more

Konica Minolta Sensing announces world's first dedicated triple junction solar PV reference cell

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 9:21 (Solarserver)

Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc. (KMSA, Ramsey, N.J.), the worldwide leader in the industrial measurement of color, light and 3D shape, launched its AK-120/130/140 Photovoltaic (PV) Reference Cells, the world's first triple junction solar reference cells, the company emphasizes. Now available, the AK-120/130/140 is the latest addition to the AK Series of reference cells. Read more

AREVA to build Asia?s largest concentrating solar power installation in Rajasthan, India

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 9:11 (Solarserver)

AREVA Solar (Mountain View, California, U.S.), an AREVA subsidiary, has been awarded a contract by the Indian group Reliance Power Limited to build a 250 megawatt (MW) concentrating solar power (CSP) installation in India, which will become the largest in all of Asia. Under the contract, AREVA will build two 125 MW CSP plants using its Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR) technology and will provide construction management services for the project, the company announced. Read more


Biomass/Pellets

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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

Australia?s Greenough River project reaches construction milestone

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 21:25 (PV-Tech)

Leaders from First Solar, Verve Energy and GE Energy Financial Services were on hand to commemorate the beginning of panel installation at Greenough River Solar Farm; hailed as Australia?s largest solar PV project to date. The 10MW park, just outside Geraldton, saw construction begin four months ago and currently has its above-ground electrical work and structural supports completed. Read more

French government awards Heliotrop consortium ?16M for manufacturing facilities, CPV installatiions

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 20:16 (PV-Tech)

Heliotrop?s HCPV1024 consortium was recently awarded ?16 million by the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME), which will support a total investment program of ?44 million to build manufacturing facilities and install Heliotrop CPV modules. Read more

Renewable Energy to Benefit from EPA's Carbon Standard

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 18:17 (Renewable Energy World)

Carbon emissions have been the buzz of the power industry over the last couple weeks since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the first proposed carbon standard for new coal-fired power plants. In carbon-conscious Europe, renewable energy has already been instrumental in helping to slash carbon emissions. So how might renewable energ Read more

U.S. DOE announces USD 30 million research competition for energy storage technologies

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 16:30 (Solarserver)

On April 11th, 2012, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a USD 30 million research competition for energy storage technologies. The competition will engage the country?s brightest scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs in improving the performance and safety of energy storage devices, including hybrid energy storage modules being developed by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for military applications. Read more

Clean energy investment in Q1 2012, 22% lower than 2011

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 16:03 (PV-Tech)

In the first quarter of 2012, financial investment in clean energy has been the weakest since 2009, states Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The figures published demonstrates investment was down 28% from Q4 2011 to just US$27 billion; 22% lower than the equivalent figure in the first quarter of last year. This includes venture capital, private equity, public markets and asset finance, but excludes small-scale projects and corporate and government RD&D. Read more

Clean energy investment in Q1 2012 was 22% lower than 2011

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 16:03 (PV-Tech)

In the first quarter of 2012, financial investment in clean energy has been the weakest since 2009, states Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The figures published demonstrate investment was down 28% from Q4 2011 to just US$27 billion ? 22% lower than the equivalent figure in the first quarter of last year. This includes venture capital, private equity, public markets and asset finance, but excludes small-scale projects and corporate and government RD&D. Read more

Tufts University Geology Professor's New Energy Source Gaining Steam

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 15:49 (Renewable Energy World)

Soon, Tufts University may be powered by a new energy source: geothermal energy from groundwater beneath the urban campus. Read more

Feature: the Green Deal explained

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 15:11 (Solarpowerportal)

We?re now just six months away from the launch of Government?s flagship energy policy: the Green Deal, yet questions still remain. ?What is it?? ?How will it work?? and ?Can I trust it?? are just a few of the most frequently asked. On the face of it, the Green Deal looks fairly straightforward, yet many areas remain confusing and could do with explaining. So here goes? Read more

Energy Innovation Centre announces move to CLG

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 15:05 (Solarpowerportal)

Cheshire?s Energy Innovation Centre has announced that it intends to become a company limited by guarantee (CLG) and therefore a legal entity in its own right. The centre is designed to bring energy innovation and industry together in the UK to help the country move towards a low carbon future. Read more

Renewables Revive Abandoned Mines

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 15:00 (Renewable Energy World)

How can the potential negative legacy of a mine site be converted into a positive inheritance for the wider environment and local communities? Recent imaginative renewable energy projects give good grounds for confidence that many former mine sites can be ideal locations for developing alternative energy generation facilities, simply by looking in a new light at some of the qualities that made them problematic in the first place. Read more

Ethiopia to get first PV module assembly plant courtesy of Spire

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 13:47 (PV-Tech)

Spire Corporation has been selected to provide a 20MW turnkey module assembly line to a partnership between renewable energy project developer, SKY Energy International and Metals and Engineering Corporation and an Ethiopian state enterprise, Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC) that will be the first module plant in Ethiopia. Read more

Greg Barker tackles Green Deal ?myths?

Friday, 4.13.2012 - 11:35 (Solarpowerportal)

The Minister for Energy and Climate Change, Greg Barker, has today penned an article in the Guardian addressing a number of ?myths? surrounding the Green Deal scheme. Read more


Solar-/Electromobil

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