News of the year 2013

Date: 07.10.2013



Photovoltaics

Order Focus: Ingeteam provides 1MW solution in Maryland, US

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 14:34 (PV-Tech)

Electricity engineer, and inverter manufacturer Ingeteam has supplied 1MW of its ‘Ingecon Sun PowerStation’ solution to a 1.2MW PV project. Read more

Exclusive: Japan considering FiT cancellation for unbuilt PV projects

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 14:15 (PV-Tech)

Sanctions including the withdrawal of feed-in tariff (FiT) certification are being considered by the Japanese government for PV projects that have been approved under the country’s FiT but remain unbuilt. Read more

Order Focus: Ingeteam provides 1MW solution in Mayland, US

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 14:15 (PV-Tech)

Electricity engineer, and inverter manufacturer Ingeteam has supplied 1MW of its ‘Ingecon Sun PowerStation’ solution to a 1.2MW project. Read more

PV in Canada: City of Kimberly to build its first solar photovoltaic plant through Sun Mine project

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 12:20 (Solarserver)

The City of Kimberley (British Columbia, Canada) will construct a 2 MW grid connected solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant on a brownfield in Kimberley, owned by Teck Metals (Vancouver, Canada). Kimberley’s project named Sun Mine will be the first large on-grid PV plant in BC, and the largest solar power plant in Western Canada. Read more

Juwi commissions combined wind/PV project totaling 25 MW in Rhineland

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 8:54 (Solarserver)

Juwi AG (Wörrstädt, Germany) has commissioned a new combined solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind project with a capacity of 25 MW in the German state of Rhineland-Palatine. The company says that the Energy Park Braunshorn/Gödenroth, which comprises seven wind turbines and a PV plant, took only a few months to build. Juwi emphasizes the advantages of wind and solar together, as well as the benefits of building electricity generation for local consumption. Read more


Thermal Power/Heating

Mercom Capital: Improved solar market conditions in Q3 2013

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 21:13 (Solarserver)

Mercom Capital LLC (Austin, Texas, U.S.) has released its third quarter 2013 funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the solar sector, which it says shows a continuing improvement in the sector. Read more

Greg Barker to launch solar energy roadmap at Solar Energy UK

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 19:01 (Solarpowerportal)

The energy and climate change minister, Greg Barker, will announce the launch of the solar energy roadmap at Solar Energy UK tomorrow. Read more

Ascent Solar’s Enerplex CIGS PV charging systems now available on Walmart.com

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 18:09 (Solarserver)

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (Thornton, Colorado, U.S.), on October 3rd, 2013, announced the availability of its EnerPlex product line via Walmart.com. In addition to the company’s consumer and off-grid products with flexible thin-film solar photovoltaic (PV) modules based on copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS), the EnerPlex Product line provides charging solutions for all portable electronics. Read more

Vivint Solar expands Southern California presence into Orange County

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 18:04 (Solarserver)

Vivint Solar (Provo, Utah, USA), the second largest U.S. solar PV integrator, on October 2nd, 2013, announced its expansion into Orange County, California. The company plans to hire up to 60 employees for a new Santa Ana-based regional office and will provide its solar photovoltaic (PV) offerings to homeowners throughout the south coast. Read more

Ventura County doubles solar PV capacity with REC Solar

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 17:59 (Solarserver)

REC Solar (San Luis Obispo, CA, U.S.) on October 3rd, 2013, received the commissioning of a 1 MW photovoltaic (PV) power system at the Ventura County Todd Road Jail facility in Santa Paula, California. The PV plant will generate 1,908 MWh of solar power annually, and double Ventura County’s solar power generation capacity. It is expected to save approximately USD 180,000 in electricity costs and offset 40% of the jail facility’s electricity needs annually. Read more

Bluefield fund secures five more UK PV projects

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 17:04 (Solarpowerportal)

The Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF) has announced the acquisition of five more large-scale PV projects in the UK. Read more

Canadian Solar launches U.S. residential solar financing program

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 15:15 (Solarserver)

Canadian Solar Inc. (Guelph, Canada) has launched the Canadian Solar Residential Financing Program with Admirals Bank (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) targeting the U.S. residential market. Read more

Albion invests £1.4 million in new commercial solar business in Northern Ireland

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 14:15 (Solarpowerportal)

Venture capital investor Albion Ventures has invested £1.4 million in Erin Solar to develop PV projects for commercial landlords in Northern Ireland. Read more

Intersolar South America 2013 successfully concluded with 2,288 visitors, 60 speakers, and 459 conference attendees

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 12:26 (Solarserver)

Intersolar South America 2013, the exhibition and conference for the South American solar industry held in the Expo Center Norte in São Paulo, Brazil, ended on September 20th, 2013. The event hosted 2,288 visitors, 60 speakers, 459 conference attendees and 64 exhibitors in the areas of photovoltaics (PV), PV production technologies, energy storage systems and solar thermal technologies from 12 countries. Read more

Solibro produces 18.7% efficiency CIGS cell in lab

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 11:15 (PV-Tech)

Confirmed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Hanergy subsidiary, Solibro has achieved a conversion efficiency of 18.7% in a lab produced copper-indium-gallium-selenium (CIGS) sub-module (5x5cm2), one of the highest reported for CIGS technology. Read more

German solar PV, wind peak at 59.1% of electricity production on October 3rd, 2013

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 9:07 (Solarserver)

German solar photovoltaics (PV) and wind peaked at 59.1% of the nation's hourly electricity production slightly before 12:00 PM on October 3rd, 2013, according to an analysis by renewable energy consultant Bernard Chabot. This was the result of healthy PV output on a particularly windy day, combined with reduced electricity use on a German holiday. At peak production PV provided 20.5 GW, with wind peaking at 16.6 GW, and the peak of the two combined was 34.6 GW. Read more

New solar thermal calculation method under MCS to increase value of RHI payments in the U.K.

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 8:59 (Solarserver)

The Solar Trade Association (STA, Milton Keynes, U.K.) has applauded a new solar thermal calculation method under the UK's Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS), under a new consultation released on October 2nd, 2013. STA estimates that the changes to the energy calculation has increased the deemed renewable heat between 14% for a two-person household and 85% for a six-person household, which increases the value of payments under the domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). Read more

SEIA reports shows benefits of solar heating and cooling in the United States

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 8:28 (Solarserver)

The U.S. Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA, Washington D.C.) has released a roadmap for increasing solar heating and cooling capacity in the United States to 300 GW-thermal by 2025 through the installation of 100 million new solar thermal collectors. The report finds that this would create 50,250 new American jobs and save more than USD 61 billion in future energy costs. Additionally, it would allow the nation to generate 8% of its total heating and cooling needs through solar energy. Read more

DEK Solar and ISFH use ‘Dual Print’ process to achieve silver cost less than US$0.01 per Wp

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 8:15 (PV-Tech)

Having continued to optimize its latest ‘Dual Print’ stencils and screens to provide fine-line front side silver contacts, DEK Solar, in conjunction with the Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH) have reduced metallization silver cost to below US$0.01 per Wp, while achieving a 20.2% cell efficiency on a PERC solar cell. Read more


Biomass/Pellets

Update: Europe's Biofuel Reform Stalled

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 16:38 (Renewable Energy World)

A European Commission proposal to regulate the amount of land that can be used to grow biofuel crops has ground to a halt in Parliament. Read more


Wind Energy

Brazil Local Content Rules Hurting Major Wind Suppliers

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 17:51 (Renewable Energy World)

Vestas Wind Systems A/S and Suzlon Energy Ltd., the two biggest wind-turbine suppliers by sales, are losing market share in Brazil because they don’t use enough parts made in South America’s fastest-growing market. Read more

Floating Offshore Wind Power Taking Hold

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 15:51 (Renewable Energy World)

Acknowledged as the leading nation in terms of offshore wind development, while it has failed to capitalize on opportunities for leadership in turbines, the UK has made efforts to avoid the same mistake when it comes to other aspects of offshore wind power. One area attracting considerable attention is floating offshore technology. Read more

Next Generation Approaches to Wind Turbine Wake Modeling

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 15:41 (Renewable Energy World)

At one time or another, just about everyone in the wind industry has seen the now famous image of the Horn’s Rev offshore wind farm in Europe’s North Sea. The effect one turbine has on the next, and the next, and on down the line can be quite dramatic – so noted at some projects that turbines furthest downstream from the wind, produce little to no energy and simply struggle to operate in intense turbulences, prematurely wearing down turbine hardware. Wake blocking effects have a huge impact on many wind project considerations: net energy estimates for financing, turbine spacing for project engineering, and operational strategies once the project is running. Read more


Hydropower

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Hydrogen/Fuel Cell

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Geo Thermal/Heat Pump

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Energy Policy/Climate/CO2

US Conservative Voices Grow Louder in Support of Renewable Energy

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 17:16 (Renewable Energy World)

The year 2013 will be remembered as the year that utilities in the United States crossed the Rubicon of renewable energy.  At first glance you might think this is a purely partisan matter, one of liberals and conservatives scoring points off each other; however, it is actually the result of our republican (with a small ‘r’) form of government, wher Read more

The Viability of Germany’s Energiewende: Mark Jacobson Answers 3 Questions

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 15:11 (Renewable Energy World)

To those in the climate change field the name Mark Z. Jacobson needs no introduction. The director of the Atmosphere and Energy Program at Stanford University is credited with having written the book on computer modeling for atmospheric changes, as well as being a recognized expert in the impacts of energy production and a staunch supporter of renewables. Read more

SunEdison, Gintech terminate wafer supply agreement

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 14:34 (Solarserver)

SunEdison Inc. (St. Peters, Missouri, U.S.) and Gintech Energy Corp. (Zhunan, Taiwan) have mutually terminated a long-term wafer supply agreement dating from 2006, with Gintech forfeiting a portion of its deposit to SunEdison. Read more

REC launches public share offering under re-brand

Monday, 10.7.2013 - 13:15 (PV-Tech)

Renewable Energy Corporation (REC), has launched an initial public offering (IPO) on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Read more


Solar-/Electromobil

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