News of the year 2013

Date: 19.11.2013



Photovoltaics

Suntech appeals New York Stock Exchange delisting

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 18:19 (PV-Tech)

Suntech Power has said it intends to appeal a decision by NYSE Regulation, the oversight body of the New York Stock Exchange, to delist the company’s American Depository Shares. Read more

Conergy becomes Kawa subsidiary as acquisition is completed

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 17:15 (Solarpowerportal)

The “start of a ‘new’ Conergy” has been heralded by the company as Kawa Capital Management finalised its acquisition of the global Conergy sales and service units. Read more

JinkoSolar to expand solar module capacity as fully booked into 2H14

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 14:57 (PV-Tech)

JinkoSolar has said it will expand module capacity to at least 2GW in 2014, due to solar modules sales being virtually fully booked through the first half of the year. Read more

Conergy becomes Kawa subsidiary as acquisition is completed

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 13:19 (PV-Tech)

The “start of a ‘new’ Conergy” has been heralded by the company as Kawa Capital Management finalised its acquisition of the global Conergy sales and service units. Read more

Dr David Fyfe appointed chairman of Oxford Photovoltaics

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 13:00 (Solarpowerportal)

Thin-film perovskite solar technology specialists, Oxford Photovoltaics (Oxford PV), has announced the appointment of Dr David Fyfe as its new chairman. Read more

OPIC invests USD 1.2 billion in renewables in FY 2013

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 8:29 (Solarserver)

The U.S. government's Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) reports that it invested USD 1.2 billion in renewable energy projects in fiscal year 2013, which ended on October 1st, 2013. In FY 2012 and 2013 OPIC has supported solar photovoltaic (PV) projects in nations including Peru, South Africa and Thailand. The agency states that its focus is on low-income nations in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. Read more


Thermal Power/Heating

Xcel’s Proposed Minnesota Community Solar Program Needs Improvement

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 17:34 (Renewable Energy World)

After the state's solar energy law passed in 2013, Minnesota's largest electric utility, Xcel Energy, was required to create a program to support the development of community solar energy. Since 3 in 4 people can't have solar on their own rooftop (because they rent, or have a nice shade tree), community solar dramatically expands the opportunity fo Read more

Praxia Energy ships 90MW of solar mounting systems to the UK

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 16:24 (Solarpowerportal)

The Spanish solar mounting company Praxia Energy has announced that it shipped 90MW of its PV mounting frames to the UK. Read more

Solar Sector Shines on Energy Storage

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 15:56 (Renewable Energy World)

Last month I was a keynote speaker at the Renewable Energy and Mining Summit in Toronto. Given the quality and quantity of mining executives in attendance, I expected the mining industry with its heavy reliance on the remote delivery of a tremendous amount of power, was educated on renewable energy generation and energy storage. I was mistaken. While the mining industry is moving forward with alternative energy generation, it isn’t very educated on energy storage. But the good news is the EPCs and photovoltaic (PV) developers servicing the mining industry clearly “get it” and swamped the American Vanadium booth after my presentation. Read more

Trina Solar returns to profitability on record shipments in Q3 2013

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 15:19 (Solarserver)

Trina Solar Ltd. (Changzhou, China) has released results for the third quarter of 2013, reporting a near-doubling of revenues on a year-over-year basis to USD 548 million and a return to profitability after two years of losses. Trina reached a 1.1% operating income and a net income of USD 9.9 million. Read more

Tamil Nadu introduces solar net metering cap

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 15:10 (PV-Tech)

The Indian state of Tamil Nadu has finalised its policy on solar net metering, introducing a cap on the amount of solar-generated electricity rooftop PV users can inject into the grid. Read more

ReneSola to supply 53.5 MW of solar PV modules for second phase of Texas mega-project

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 14:29 (Solarserver)

OCI Solar Power (San Antonio, Texas, U.S.) has chosen ReneSola Ltd. (Jiashan, China) to supply its solar photovoltaic (PV) modules to the second phase of the 400 MW PV project it is developing near San Antonio, Texas. ReneSola will 178,000 300 watt multicrystalline PV modules, representing 53.5 MW of capacity, for the Alamo II plant and another project west of San Antonio. Read more

Softbank and Mitsui join forces for 42MW of PV projects

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 14:11 (PV-Tech)

Japanese mobile telecom company Softbank and trading company Mitsui & Co have announced that the two companies will partner in the construction of two utility-scale solar plants in Japan. Read more

GCL-Poly agrees private US$200 million bond sale

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 14:05 (PV-Tech)

China’s largest polysilicon and solar wafer producer, GCL-Poly, has agreed a US$200 million bond sale to an Asian investment fund. Read more

No successful solar bids in Brazil’s latest energy auction

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 13:15 (PV-Tech)

No solar PV projects were selected in the long awaited A-3 energy tender auction in Brazil on Monday. Read more

ReneSola inks 53MW Texas PV order

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 12:20 (PV-Tech)

China-based PV manufacturer ReneSola has won a 53.5MWp module order for PV projects in Texas being developed by OCI Solar Power. Read more

Fraunhofer ISE joins US Sunshot Initiative

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 11:39 (PV-Tech)

The largest solar research institute in Europe, Fraunhofer ISE has been awarded project funds to join the US Sunshot Initiative. Read more

Solar PV research: Fraunhofer ISE participates as partner in U.S. SunShot Initiative

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 11:21 (Solarserver)

The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE (Freiburg, Germany) has been awarded project funds within the framework of the U.S. SunShot Initiative. Fraunhofer ISE is one of only three research partners in the program who are not based the U.S. The SunShot Initiative was started in 2011 by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Its aim is to reduce the generation costs for solar electricity in the U.S. down to six U.S. cents per kilowatt hour, thereby making solar energy competitive with conventional fossil fuel energy sources. For over 30 years, Fraunhofer ISE has been working on increasing the energy efficiency of solar cells. Read more

Japan hits 3.9GW of PV installations since FiT introduction

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 10:16 (PV-Tech)

The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has announced that around 3.9GW of solar power generation capacity has been installed in Japan since July 2012, when the country introduced feed-in tariffs (FiTs) for renewable energy. Read more

China plans for 12 GW of new solar PV in 2014

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 8:48 (Solarserver)

China's Bureau of Energy has released a draft plan for 12 GW of solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment in 2014, according to NPD Solarbuzz Inc. (Santa Clara, California, U.S.). This includes 8 GW of distributed generation. Jiangsu will be the leading province, with 1.3 GW of PV in its pipeline, followed by Shandong Province at 1.2 GW and Zhejiang Province at 1.1 GW. These plans show a shift in emphasis towards rooftop PV and to densely populated Eastern China from the far Western regions. Read more

Fraunhofer ISE: Cost of solar, wind generation near conventional power in Germany

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 8:41 (Solarserver)

Fraunhofer ISE (Freiburg, Germany) has conducted a new study on the cost of wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in Germany, which finds that both are around the cost of conventional generation, and likely to get cheaper in coming decades. The report finds that cost-effective ground-mounted PV systems built in 2013 in Southern Germany can reach costs of around EUR 0.08 (USD 0.11) per kWh. The study also found that small rooftop PV plants in Northern Germany can reach costs of EUR 0.14 (USD 0.19) per kWh, well below retail household electricity prices of EUR 0.29 (USD 0.39) per kWh. Read more

DOE: U.S. concentrating solar power capacities to more than triple in 2013–2014

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 8:34 (Solarserver)

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reports that the United States is set to commission nearly 900 MW of concentrating solar power (CSP) plants by the end of 2013. This would represent a roughly 175% increase over the total operational capacity at the beginning of the year. This includes Abengoa's 250 MW Solana CSP plant, which is already commissioned, and BrightSource's 390 MW Ivanpah project. DOE notes that these two projects are much larger than previous CSP projects. Read more


Biomass/Pellets

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Hydrogen/Fuel Cell

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Geo Thermal/Heat Pump

International Geothermal Market Set for Development Boom but Challenges Remain

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 17:41 (Renewable Energy World)

What’s the next big opportunity for geothermal? According to panelists at last week's Renewable Energy World North America international geothermal session, it’s emerging markets. Kicking off the two-hour discussion, special guest Agnes Dasewicz of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) explained the Power Africa initiative, which launched in June 2013. USAID is attempting to unlock energy growth in six countries: Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, and — of particular interest to the geothermal crowd — Ethiopia. Read more


Energy Policy/Climate/CO2

Obama Messes with the US Renewable Fuel Standard

Tuesday, 11.19.2013 - 15:39 (Renewable Energy World)

In Washington, the EPA released its 2014 proposed standards and volumes for renewable fuels. The volumes, as widely expected, include substantial reductions from the statutory standards in the original Energy Independence & Security Act. Read more


Solar-/Electromobil

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