Shunfeng identified as preferred bidder for Wuxi Suntech

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 15:30 (Solarserver)

The insolvency administrator for Suntech Power Holding Co. Ltd.'s (Wuxi, China) primary operating subsidiary reports that Jiangsu Shunfeng Photovoltaic Technology Co. Ltd. (Changzhou, China) has been provisionally selected to take over the company. Read more

SMA offers plant-wide O&M in North America

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 14:56 (Solarserver)

SMA Solar Technology AG's (Niestetal, Germany) has begun providing plant-wide operations and maintenance (O&M) services as part of its service offerings in North America. Read more

Two horse race for Suntech Wuxi

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 13:54 (PV-Tech)

After beginning a search two months ago to find a major investor that would enable Suntech Wuxi to exit bankruptcy proceedings in China, two candidates have been selected in a final face-off. Read more

SEUK: P.M Service introduces tsmc thin film to UK market

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 11:57 (Solarpowerportal)

Talking to Solar Power Portal at Solar Energy UK 2013, electrical component distributor P.M Service is introducing Taiwan Semiconductor manufacturing company’s (tsmc) thin film panels to the UK market. Read more

PV Parity Project: Grid integration of 480 GW of PV in Europe relatively inexpensive

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 8:56 (Solarserver)

The European PV Parity Project (Brussels) has released a new report which confirms the technical feasibility of integrating 480 GW of solar photovoltaics (PV) in Europe between 2020 and 2030, and finds that this can be done at EUR 0.026 (USD 0.035) per kWh. This would cover roughly 15% of European electricity demand. “Grid Integration Cost of Photovoltaic Power Generation” finds that back-up capacity cost will be an important component of PV integration in Northern Europe, and that distribution networks will need to be reinforced across the continent. Read more

Google to invest USD 103 million in the Mount Signal PV project

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 8:49 (Solarserver)

Google Inc. (Mountain View, California, U.S.) has announced that it will invest USD 103 million in Silver Ridge Power LLC's (Arlington, Virginia, U.S.) 266 MW-DC Mount Signal solar photovoltaic (PV) project, which is currently under construction in Southern California's Imperial Valley. Silver Ridge expects to complete the Mount Signal PV plan in 2014, and will sell the electricity generated to San Diego Gas & Electric Co. (SDG&E, San Diego, California, U.S.) under a long-term power purchase agreement. Read more

Germany's SRU says more flexibility needed from conventional power, calls for careful reform of feed-in tariff

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 8:45 (Solarserver)

As the latest organization to weigh in on the future of Germany energy policy, the nation's Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU) says that while the system of feed-in tariffs has been a success, the conventional power system needs additional flexibility. These are among the selected recommendations released from “Designing the Energy Market of the Future”, which SRU plans to issue in full in November 2013. The agency says that options like more incentives for demand-side management and improved grid connections with neighboring nations should be pursued first to provide this flexibility. Read more

Intersolar Europe expands with Electrical Energy Storage show

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 17:56 (PV-Tech)

Intersolar Europe will include the Electrical Energy Storage show as of next year, according to its organisers. Read more

SEUK: Earthwise Products Ltd appoints Solfex as new UK distributor

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 16:16 (Solarpowerportal)

Earthwise Products has announced a new distribution deal that will see Solfex Ltd sell the SOLiC 200 solar immersion controller in the UK. Read more

US Solar Manufacturing Tidbits: First Solar Plant Sale, SolarWorld Shuffles

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 16:13 (Renewable Energy World)

Two more bits of news this week reiterate how unforgiving the solar PV manufacturing industry is: First Solar is finally giving up hope for its as-yet unused plant in Arizona, while SolarWorld reportedly is consolidating more operations and shaking up its top exec ranks. Read more

SEUK: GoodWe shares Barker’s solar ambitions

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 15:22 (Solarpowerportal)

Chinese inverter manufacturer, GoodWe Power Supply Technology Co Ltd, has expressed support for the minister of state for energy and climate change Greg Barker, following his speech at Solar Energy UK. Read more

Which Chinese Solar Companies Will Survive?

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 15:18 (Renewable Energy World)

As the solar panel sector continues its painful overhaul, signals are emerging about who will survive the downturn and thrive when the industry returns to health. Canadian Solar (Nasdaq: CSIQ) certainly seems to be one of the strongest players coming out of the retrenchment, with word that the company has sold 4 more plants that it constructed to p Read more

Trina Solar joins Yingli Green in dismissing ECD’s lawsuit claims

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 15:15 (PV-Tech)

Following the start of legal procedures by the liquidation trustee for failed flexible a-Si thin-film manufacturer, Energy Conversion Devices (ECD), Trina Solar has also responded to the litigation, noting the complaint was ‘without merit”. Read more

Listen Up: Solar Energy Start-Ups

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 15:07 (Renewable Energy World)

Solar start-ups are hot again — especially those that address the "downstream" part of the value chain: installer services, customer acquisition, system design tools and analytical systems. And as in years past, there are a dozens of companies showing new types of solar panels, trackers, racking systems and integrated systems. Read more

North American Development Bank lends US$50.8 million for San Diego PV plants

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 14:22 (PV-Tech)

The North American Development Bank (NADB) has agreed to lend US$50.8 million for the construction of four solar farms with a total capacity of 19.5MW. Read more

Hanergy licenses Global Solar’s 61 patents to subsidiary

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 13:06 (PV-Tech)

Hanergy Holding is licensing the 61 CIGS thin-film patents it acquired with the acquisition of US-based Global Solar Energy to one of its many subsidiaries, Hanergy Hi-Tech. Read more

SolarWorld conducts US executive reshuffle and more restructuring

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 12:26 (PV-Tech)

A central figure in SolarWorld’s successful fight to obtain anti-dumping duties on Chinese imported solar products in the US has been replaced as president of its US operations. Read more

Google pumps US$103 million into California solar farm

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 12:15 (PV-Tech)

Web giant Google has invested US$103 million in Silver Ridge Power’s 265.7MW Mount Signal Solar project. Read more

Can Securitization Debt Fit with Tax Equity in the Solar Financial Landscape? Part 2

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 12:06 (Renewable Energy World)

Part one of this series examined the problem of incorporating securitization debt into a financial structure with its highly sensitive tax attributes — that is, how the legal structure of a securitization transaction contains certain elements that may trigger a recapture of the tax incentives, thus diminishing the value of a tax equity partner's investment. Read more

First Solar installs five millionth solar PV module at Topaz Solar Farm

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 8:51 (Solarserver)

First Solar Inc. (Tempe, Arizona, U.S.) has installed the five millionth cadmium telluride thin-film solar photovoltaic (PV) module at the Topaz Solar Farm, located in San Luis Obispo County, California. At 550 MW each, First Solar's Topaz and Desert Sunlight projects are the two largest PV projects under construction in the world. Construction of Topaz Solar began in late 2011, and First Solar expects to complete Topaz by early 2015. Read more

GE Wants To "Power Up" Older Wind Turbines

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 23:30 (Renewable Energy World)

Earlier this year GE launched a package of package of technologies and services to improve output from its newer turbines like the 2.5-120, calling them "brilliant" at predicting and producing wind energy. Now it's bringing those same capabilities to its existing turbine fleet by packaging them into a new suite called "PowerUp" to improve older turbines' output and profitability. Read more

Win-Win: Hydropower Plants May Produce More Power and Salmon

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 15:30 (Renewable Energy World)

Norwegian research shows that it is perfectly possible for rivers to produce more salmon and electricity at the same time: a new environmental handbook shows the way. Read more

Congo Open to More Investors Joining 4.8-GW Inga Hydropower Project

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 12:00 (Renewable Energy World)

The Democratic Republic of Congo is open to more investors joining three groups of companies bidding to construct the $12 billion Inga 3 hydropower project, Energy Minister Bruno Kapandji said. Read more

juwi Shizen Energy completes utility-scale PV plant in Japan

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 22:03 (Solarserver)

The joint venture between juwi AG (Wörrstädt, Germany) and Shizen Energy Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) has commissioned a ground mount solar photovoltaic (PV) park in Ozu on Kyushu island, Japan. The utility-scale PV plant has an installed capacity of 1.1 megawatt (MW). Every year the 4,480 PV modules will feed 1,375,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) of solar power into the local grid, the partners announced. Read more

Europe on track to meet renewable energy goals

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 21:58 (Solarserver)

The European Environmental Agency (EEA) has released a report which states that the EU is on track to meet its goal of 20% renewables in final energy consumption – including electricity, heat and transport – by 2020. “Trends and projections in Europe 2013” finds that renewables contributed to 13% of final energy consumption in 2011, above a target of 10.7%. The EU is also exceeding its commitment for greenhouse gas reduction made under the Kyoto Protocol. Read more

Power Engineering and Renewable Energy World Name Woman of the Year Finalists

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 18:04 (Renewable Energy World)

The Power-Gen 2013 Women in Power committee is pleased to announce the finalists for the first Power-Gen Woman of the Year Award. Read more

French energy regulator nears decision on 1.7GW of PV tenders

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 13:09 (PV-Tech)

The French regulatory commission for energy (CRE) has released a response to 396 applications for solar project tenders. Read more

Project Focus: Juwi’s Japan JV completes third PV plant

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 12:54 (PV-Tech)

German PV developer Juwi and Shizen Energy have completed their third project in Japan, a 1.1MW power plant on the island of Kyushu. Read more

Nuna7 solar car wins World Solar Challenge in Australia

Friday, 10.11.2013 - 22:08 (Solarserver)

Dutch Nuna7 solar vehicle made by the Nuon Solar Team from Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), has won this year's World Solar Challenge, the 3,000km race from Darwin to Adelaide in Australia. Nuna7 has won the race in a time of just over 33 hours, and with an average speed of 90.71kph. One key to its success was the use of an ultra-light water-based composite pinhole filler and an aerodynamic Sikkens coatings system which reduced wind drag, notes Producer AkzoNobel (Amsterdam). Read more