Solaer installs Conergy modules at first 5MW UK PV project

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 11:47 (PV-Tech)

Solaer has constructed its first PV project in the UK, the company has announced. After connecting a 5.3MW project to the grid in Spain recently, the company has installed 21,000 PH solar modules manufactured by Conergy at a 5MW project in Eastcott, Cornwall. Read more

IEA: Global PV capacity to more than triple by 2017

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 9:44 (Solarserver)

On July 5th, 2012 the International Energy Agency released a new report which predicts that global installed solar photovoltaic (PV) capacities will more than triple to 230 GW in 2017, with concentrating solar power (CSP) capacities growing more than five-fold to 11 GW during that time. The agency also predicts that solar heating capacities will more than double to over 500 GW-thermal in 2017. These predictions are part of an overall 40% growth in renewable energy generation forecast in "Mid-Term Renewable Energy Market Report 2012", the first medium-term report that the IEA has written on renewable energy. Read more

TrendForce: German feed-in tariff cut impacts to be "mild"

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 9:05 (Solarserver)

TrendForce (Taipei City, Taiwan) has released an analysis stating that while the market impact of cuts to Germany's feed-in tariff will be limited, the policy has sent a signal to manufacturers to adopt a more conservative outlook towards the solar photovoltaic (PV) market in the second half of 2012. TrendForce also notes slight decreases in prices across the PV value chain in the most recent week, with polysilicon prices falling 0.7% to USD 21.07/kg. The organization reports that even PV cell prices have fallen, and that wafer prices continue to decline. Read more

New Jersey passes solar ?resurrection bill?

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 21:56 (PV-Tech)

Greentech Media reports that New Jersey?s Senate and General Assembly have agreed to pass the solar ?resurrection bill? (A-2966), voting to approve the substitutions and amendments. The legislation is said to potentially sustain a healthy rate of solar project development and job growth in the state. Read more

Larsen & Toubro wins 10MW turnkey EPC contract

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 21:15 (PV-Tech)

According to reports from Larsen and Toubro, its solar unit landed an Rs 125 crore order for turnkey EPC services for 10MW of solar PV systems. No further information was given regarding the contract, but the company advised that it continues to see growth opportunities in India?s solar market simply because the country intends to increase its solar capacity to 20,000MW by 2020. Read more

IPC begins construction of 10MW Brockville PV project in Ontario

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 21:15 (PV-Tech)

International Power Canada?s (IPC) 10MW Brockville Solar project has begun construction in Leeds County, Ontario. The project site has been cleared and final engineering has commenced. The company expects for civil works to continue through the summer in order to construct the racks for the modules. Read more

Dasol Solar Energy exempt from anti-dumping duties, investigation

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 21:15 (PV-Tech)

Anji Dasol Solar energy recently revealed that since it uses silicon cells imported from Germany and Norway, it has been excluded from the anti-dumping and countervailing PV investigations occurring between China and the US. The company noted that if another US company chooses to import solar panels from Dasol, no anti-dumping or countervailing duties will be added. Read more

Intersolar NA: 7th PV Briefing & Networking Forum US to take place at Moscone Centre

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 20:55 (PV-Tech)

Intersolar North America?s 2012 conference participants will have the opportunity to participate in the 7th PV Briefing & Networking Forum USA on July 11th. Attendees will be privy to macro and micro views of developments in the US PV market. The show will kick-off with a view on current market situations in California at ?The Californian PV Market ? Scenarios for 2012 and beyond.? Read more

Ferrostaal acquires Flagsol from Solar Millennium?s insolvency administrator

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 18:04 (PV-Tech)

Volker Böhm, insolvency administrator for German Solar Millennium has sold the company?s stake in Flagsol to industrial solutions provider Ferrostaal, it has been announced. Ferrostaal has announced that it will take over and continue operations as well as take over all 80 Flagsol employees. Flagsol?s headquarters will also remain in Cologne, Germany. Read more

LG Electronics proposes 10.9MW in South Korea

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 17:10 (PV-Tech)

LG Electronics, subsidiary of Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power has been awarded a bid to construct a 10.9MW large-scale solar power plant in Yeonggwang, South Jeolla Province. Read more

WGL Holdings to finance USD 50 million of hybrid PV/solar thermal systems

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 16:20 (Solarserver)

WGL Holdings Inc. (Washington D.C., U.S.) has agreed to provide project capital through a subsidiary to EchoFirst Inc. (Fremont, California, U.S.) to support financing and deployment of up to USD 50 million of EchoFirst's hybrid solar photovoltaic (PV)/solar water heating systems. WGL states that the funding will support the United State's first combined solar electric and solar water-heating lease, which will be available for both new and existing homes. Read more

Hanwha constructs 80kW PV installation at Chinese Nature Reserve

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 14:15 (PV-Tech)

Hanwha Solar One has completed an 80kW PV installation at China?s Baijitan National Nature Reserve of Lingwu City, the company has announced. Hanwha collaborated on this project with the United Nations convention to combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the State Forestry Administration and Forestry Department of the Ningxia Hiu region. The region has a delicate ecosystem that is threatened by desertification due to its close proximity to the Mu Us Desert and unsustainable development. Read more

Order Focus: Solar Junction takes first CPV wafers from IQE

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 13:15 (PV-Tech)

Having signed an exclusive wafer supply contract with specialist wafer producer IQE in February, 2012 CPV cell developer and manufacturer, Solar Junction has placed the first major order for wafers worth US$1.95 million. The order is in relation to Solar Junction?s first 5MW order from SolFocus, which is planning the construction of a 450MW CPV project in Baja, Mexico. Read more

Sonnedix acquires 24MW PV plant in France

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 13:14 (PV-Tech)

PV plant developer Sonnedix has bought a PV plant in the north-east of France, the company has announced. The 24MW Toul 3 project, located near the city of Nancy, has been constructed by EDF EN Services and is part of the 115MW Toul-Rosières PV park, the largest European solar park. Toul 3 has been constructed on a former NATO site, and is equipped with 500,000 First Solar panels as well as SMA inverters. The PV plant is expected to commence commercial operation this summer. Read more

Parabel AG completes 40.5 MW Jännersdorf Solar Park before FIT cut deadline

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 9:35 (Solarserver)

Parabel AG (Berlin, Germany) reports that it commissioned the 40.5 MW Jännersdorf Solar Park on a formerly military airfield in the German state of Brandenburg on June 30th, 2012. The timing of commissioning of the plant qualifies it for participation in the nation's feed-in tariff before a provision eliminating eligibility for large plants takes effect. The plant is comprised of 168,000 Trina, Suntech and Hareon PV modules on 5,200 Schletter mounting systems, as well as 1,900 Siemens Sinvert PVM inverters. Read more

DECC report finds more affluent, older, rural residents installing more solar

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 9:12 (Solarserver)

The U.K.'s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has released a new report which finds that solar photovoltaic (PV) installations through the nation's feed-in tariff (FiT) are concentrated in more affluent households with higher energy consumption. "Identifying trends in the deployment of domestic solar PV under the Feed-in Tariff scheme" also finds that rural areas have a greater density of domestic PV installations, as do areas with more educated, older residents. Read more

Solar Impulse to begin return flight to Spain

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 9:00 (Solarserver)

On July 6th, 2012 at 6:00 AM local time Solar Impulse was scheduled to begin its return flight to Europe from Africa. The solar-powered plane is expected to land in Madrid-Barajas airport in Spain on July 7th at 12:30 AM local time, returning from a nearly 4,000 km journey without using any fuel. Solar Impulse states that the highlight of the journey was reaching Ourzazate, Morocco, the site of a planned concentrating solar power (CSP) plant. The team also states that the decision to begin the return flight required careful analysis and calculations due to strong jet streams, which will provide a technical challenge. Read more

Suzlon Plans Turbine-parts Plant in Brazil as Wind Loans Blocked

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 13:12 (Renewable Energy World)

Suzlon Energy Ltd., India's biggest wind-turbine maker, agreed to build a components factory in Brazil as the country's state development bank suspended loans to developers buying the machines from foreign companies. Read more

Legal action threatened over UK wind subsidies

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 10:52 (Renewable Energy World)

Trade association RenewableUK says it may consider taking legal action against the government if wind power subsidies are cut by more than 10%. Read more

Legal Action Threatened Over UK Wind Subsidies

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 10:52 (Renewable Energy World)

Trade association RenewableUK says it may consider taking legal action against the government if wind power subsidies are cut by more than 10%. Read more

IEA report expects renewable power generation to continue steady growth over next 5 years

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 22:55 (PV-Tech)

A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) has determined that over the next five years, in spite of economic uncertainty, global power generation from hydropower, solar, wind and other renewable resources will increase by over 40% to 6,400TWh. The report, ?Medium ?Term Renewable Energy Market Report 2012?, finds that renewable electricity generation should expand by 1,840TWh between 2011 and 2017, nearly 60% more than the 1,160TWh growth found to have taken place between 2005 and 2011. Read more

Too Good to Fail: What's Wrong with the Electric Grid?

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 18:00 (Renewable Energy World)

The temperature is 100 degrees and we have no air conditioning, no running water, no telephone and no Internet. It?s been 60 hours since our household lost electricity because of the super derecho, a rare surprise storm that swept ten U.S. states and the nation?s capital on June 29. About 5 million of us suddenly are living in conditions of a centu Read more

Argentina Plans Biggest Wind Project With $3 Billion China Loan

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 16:27 (Renewable Energy World)

An Argentinean renewable-energy developer is planning Latin America's biggest wind-power project, saying it expects to obtain $3 billion in financing from China Development Bank Corp. Read more

U.S. federal agencies to revise transmission plan to accommodate more renewable energy

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 16:26 (Solarserver)

A coalition of conservation organizations have reached a settlement agreement with U.S. federal agencies to revise a transmission plan for the Western United States, including facilitating more renewable energy generation. The July 3rd, 2012 agreement requires the agencies to revise the "West-wide Energy Corridors" plan. The conservation groups state that the 2008 plan connected fossil-fuel plants in the West's electric grid while overlooking areas with solar, wind and geothermal potential. Read more

Japan's Bank for International Cooperation to provide USD 30 million to support Indian renewable energy projects using Japanese equipment

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 16:10 (Solarserver)

Japan's Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has signed a general agreement with ICICI Bank Ltd. (Mumbai, India) for an export credit line totaling USD 30 million dollars to finance renewable energy projects using Japanese equipment. The loan will be co-financed by private financial institutions for a total of USD 50 million. This will be JBIC's first credit line to specialize in supporting the export of renewable energy-related equipment. Read more

Can Russian Hydro Solve China's Power Shortfall?

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 15:00 (Renewable Energy World)

As industrialisation and urbanisation enable the Asian economy to develop faster than ever before, the centre of world consumption is quickly shifting east to Asia. Among the Asian economies, China has emerged as the largest energy consumer given its tremendous development in manufacturing and infrastructure. Today, China's share in the world's energy consumption has reached 30% and continues to grow. This growth needs to be supported not only by resources from within China, but also by efficient energy solutions provided by China's neighbours. Read more

IEA predicts rapid renewables growth over next 5 years

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 13:02 (Solarpowerportal)

In its first ever major report on renewables, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has estimated that global renewable power generation will increase by over 40 percent over the next five years. Read more

IEA predicts rapid renewables growth over next five years

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 13:02 (Solarpowerportal)

In its first ever major report on renewables, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has estimated that global renewable power generation will increase by over 40 percent over the next five years. Read more

Lord Deben set to chair Committee on Climate Change

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 11:27 (Solarpowerportal)

Lord Deben has been selected as the preferred candidate to chair the independent Committee on Climate Change (CCC) by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Read more

IFC mulls USD 50 million debt financing to Green Infra for 25 MW of PV in Rajasthan

Friday, 7.6.2012 - 8:54 (Solarserver)

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is considering providing a USD 50 million debt financing facility to Green Infra Ltd. (GIL, New Delhi, India) to support the building of two solar photovoltaic (PV) plants totaling 25 MW in the Indian state of Rajasthan. GIL plans to build a 20 MW and a 5 MW PV plant using thin film PV modules on 65 hectares that represent a mixture of private and public land in the state's Jodhpur district. On June 29th, 2012 the IFC published an Environmental and Social Review and a Summary of Investment Information on the project. Read more