News of the year 2013
Date: 22.11.2013
VAWT on the Vineyard: Small Wind Revisited
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 22:55 (Renewable Energy World)
There's a fairly robust market for small-scale distributed wind systems (SWT) Navigant Consulting projects global installations will grow from an around 85 MW in 2012 to 172 MW in 2018 with revenues topping $728 million, and $3.3 billion cumulatively from 2013-2018, especially due to growing popularity of community- and municipality-owned systems. Read moreChinese banks bail out LDK to the tune of USD 256 million
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 15:42 (Solarserver)
Troubled wafer and solar photovoltaic (PV) module maker LDK Solar Co. Ltd. (Xinyu City, China) appears to have secured a financial lifeline in the form of a USD 256 million credit facility from a syndicate of 11 Chinese banks. The facility was secured through subsidiary Jiangxi LDK Solar Hi-Tech Co. Ltd. (Xinyu City, China), and use of the proceeds will be limited to financing LDK's operations within Jiangxi Province. Read moreNew Balance runs on solar power with 50kWp array
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 17:56 (Solarpowerportal)
Sports shoe manufacturer New Balance has installed a 50kWp solar array on its factory rooftop in Flimby, Cumbria. Read moreListen Up: The Economics of Solar Hot Water Systems
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 14:00 (Renewable Energy World)
Kids these days are growing up with solar — panels on the roof of their house, ads on the radio, solar electric lights, calculators and even backpacks. To their entire generation, "solar" means solar electricity or photovoltaic. But solar electric systems are a relative newcomer on the block. Read moreIndustry welcomes US federal interconnectivity regulation change
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 13:25 (PV-Tech)
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has commended the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for updating its interconnection rules. Read moreHanwha SolarOne supplies 12.9MW of modules for projects in Portugal
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 13:02 (PV-Tech)
South Korean manufacturer Hanwha SolarOne has supplied 12.9MW of HSL modules for a several solar parks in Portugal. Read moreImperial Valley Tenaska solar project reaches financial close
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 12:46 (PV-Tech)
Independent power producer Tenaska’s Imperial Solar Energy Center South project has reached financial close. Read moreHareon to invest US$1.6 billion for 1GW Inner Mongolia solar farm
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 12:09 (PV-Tech)
Renewable energy developer, Hareon Solar has signed a Letter of Intent to invest CNY10 billion (US$1.6 billion) for a 1GW solar farm in Inner Mongolia. Read moreSolarCity closes US$54 million securitisation deal
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 11:59 (PV-Tech)
SolarCity has completed the US$54.4 million funding round, the first secured against solar energy assets. Read moreOff-grid concentrating solar power demonstration project completed in France
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 9:48 (Solarserver)
Schneider Electric SA (Reuil-Malmaison, France), Exosun SAS (Martillac, France) and Exoès SAS (Gradignan, France) have inaugurated a pilot off-grid concentrating solar power (CSP) project in France under the MICROSOL project. The aim of the project is to develop a system to provide isolated populations with both drinking water and electricity using sustainable technologies. Exosun designed and built the solar concentrator and receptor for the plant, and Exoès provided its organic Rankine cycle engine technology to convert the heat to electricity. The plant additionally incorporates Exosun's energy storage solution, and Schneider Electric supplied the plant's power control. Read moreUpsolar introduces solar PV rooftop leasing program in France
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 9:40 (Solarserver)
Upsolar Group Co. Ltd. (Shanghai) has unveiled a new solar leasing program for the French market. Under the Pass Locasolaire program, qualifying property owners can earn revenue for up to 20 years by hosting a rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) system powered by Upsolar PV modules. Third-party owned PV arrangements have become dominant in the residential PV sector in California and a number of other leading U.S. state markets, but are relatively unheard-of in Europe. Upsolar notes that it is drawing upon its relationships with French PV installers to be the first PV module maker to offer this model in France. Read moreIHS: 40–42 GW of solar PV to be installed globally in 2014
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 9:03 (Solarserver)
IHS Inc. (Englewood, Colorado, U.S.) estimates that only 40–42 GW of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity will be installed globally in 2014. This would represent a 15% increase over 2013 levels but is a lower estimate than has been given by other analysts. Citing its Solar PV Demand Tracker, IHS warns of several risks, including an “increasingly likely” boom-and-bust cycle in Japan, due in part to the pending end of the nation's residential feed-in tariff. The company also says that it expects ample supply of PV components and a moderate decline in PV module, inverter and balance of system prices. Read moreConergy to build 40 MW of solar PV plants in the UK
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 8:55 (Solarserver)
Conergy AG (Hamburg, Germany) has announced that it will build five UK solar photovoltaic (PV) plants totaling 40 MW for Primrose Solar (Milton Keynes, UK). The company has secured exclusive engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) and operations and maintenance (O&M) rights for these plants and another four totaling 50 MW, which are still in the development phase. Conergy developed the 90 MW of PV plants together with Camborne Energy (Cardiff, UK). The announcement comes only days after Conergy announced that Kawa Capital Management Inc. (Miami, Florida, U.S.) had closed on the acquisition of its UK subsidiary and four other units, following the transfer of four other Read moreSolexant switches to CIGS solar PV, rebrands as Siva Power
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 8:50 (Solarserver)
Solexant Corp. (San Jose, California, U.S.) has cancelled plans to build a cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar photovoltaic (PV) production line in the U.S. state of Oregon, and will instead focus on copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) technology. The company notes that it had researched several options, and that CIGS is the only viable route to achieving its goal of PV production at under USD 0.40 per watt. Additionally, Solexant has changed its name to Siva Power, and has launched a new website. Read morePalm Oil: A Biofuel Redemption Model
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 15:16 (Renewable Energy World)
Palm oil may seem a natural food and biofuel, but has instead ended up as a flashpoint of environmentalist suspicion and increasingly shut out of certain global markets. The European Union, the world’s largest single market, has imposed increased import restrictions and labeling requirements on palm oil. It also has specific exclusions under the new U.S. renewables standards, and environmental groups target its users ranging even down to chocolate candy bars. Destroyer of rain forests, instigator of deadly Southeast Asian haze clouds, orangutan-killer — where did it all come off the rails? Read moreVoltec to supply 7MW of panels to La Compagnie du Vent
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 14:08 (PV-Tech)
Voltec Solar has signed an agreement to deliver solar panels with French wind energy company, La Compagnie du Vent, GDF Suez Group. Read morePumped Storage in the Spotlight
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 18:22 (Renewable Energy World)
I have always found pumped-storage hydropower to be a fascinating technology. According to Wikipedia, the first use of pumped storage was in the 1890s in Italy and Switzerland. And the first pumped-storage plant built in the U.S. was in 1930 by the Connecticut Electric and Power Company, using a reservoir near New Milford, Ct., and pumping water fr Read moreAn Action Plan for Distributed Generation
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 15:19 (Renewable Energy World)
The rapid growth of solar power, and the promise of fuel cells, microturbines, battery storage and other distributed technologies, is engendering change and new opportunities in the utility world. Many are looking at the cell phone in their pocket and wondering what lessons can be learned from the transformation continuing to sweep the world of tel Read moreGeothermal Boreholes Are NOT Wells
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 12:00 (Renewable Energy World)
The geothermal heat pump (GHP) industry prides itself on offering an efficient, environmentally friendly technology for satisfying the thermal loads of buildings. To do so, a GHP system relies on circulating water through pipes placed underground (either vertically or horizontally) to tap the natural heat retained by the earth. Read moreTop Five Cool Renewable Energy Projects
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 22:37 (Renewable Energy World)
Gadgets, libations, installations and even a documentary are proving that renewable energy entrepreneurs are working hard to make our lives better in every way possible. As chief editor of RenewableEnergyWorld.com, I read and hear about a ton of developments in the renewable energy industry. I would guess that our newsroom receives in the neighbor Read moreBNEF’s Climatescope report to include Africa and Asia for 2013
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 17:57 (PV-Tech)
Climatescope, a report, index and web tool focussed on the clean energy market, will this year include markets in Africa and Asia, after last year’s inaugural edition centred on Latin America and the Caribbean. Read moreTax rebates could better incentivise energy investments
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 17:45 (Solarpowerportal)
Tax rebates and cuts in stamp duty could be better methods of encouraging transformation in the UK energy market, according to a Warwick Business School academic. Read moreDaqo reduces losses in Q3 2013, moves forward with polysilicon capacity expansion
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 15:16 (Solarserver)
Polysilicon maker Daqo New Energy Corp. (Chongqing, China) has released results for the third quarter of 2013, reporting a 40% year-over-year increase in revenues to USD 29.6 million, a -17% operating margin and a net loss of USD 11.0 million. Read moreDaqo to double polysilicon production at Xinjiang facility
Friday, 11.22.2013 - 12:04 (PV-Tech)
Daqo New Energy has plans to double polysilicon production at its plant in Xinjiang, China to 12,000MT per annum by the end of 2014. Read moreThere are no news available