US' Biggest Landfill To Become New York City's Biggest Solar Project

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 23:44 (Renewable Energy World)

What was once the largest landfill on the planet is being partly reinvented, and solar energy will be playing a big role in that. Read more

LDK Solar reports 10th quarter of heavy losses

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 22:10 (Solarserver)

LDK Solar Co. Ltd. (XinyCity, China) reported its 10th quarter of consecutive heavy losses in its third quarter 2013 results, with a -49% operating margin and a net loss of USD 130 million. The company saw USD 157 million in quarterly revenues, a 46% decline on a year-over-year basis. Read more

JA Solar shipments top 500MW in Q3; planning module capacity expansion

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 19:01 (PV-Tech)

Strong demand for modules in the third quarter of 2013, meant JA Solar reported increased product shipments and revenue, while reducing losses. Read more

British Solar Renewables secures solar construction investment from Santander

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 17:38 (Solarpowerportal)

British Solar Renewables and Santander have entered a joint venture which will invest in the construction of 56.5MW of solar farms across the UK. Read more

Should Solar Face West not South?

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 17:02 (Renewable Energy World)

A new study from Austin’s Pecan Street Research Institute finds that residential solar PV panels oriented to the west may have more benefits for homeowners — at least in the summer and in Austin, Tex. That research flies in the face of conventional wisdom that PV panels should face south where the amount of sunlight that can hit them is maximized.  Read more

Siva Power: Why Our CIGS Tech Will Rule Solar PV

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 16:43 (Renewable Energy World)

Siva Power, née Solexant, has re-emerged from stealth (again), having circled around its thin-film solar PV roots to reorganize behind copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS). The company now says it's "de-risked" its technology and is ready to scale up to a 300-MW "pilot" line, and ultimately build multi-gigawatt fabs on every major continent. Read more

Heraeus reveals solar product launch drive after expanding R&D activities

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 15:54 (PV-Tech)

Citing the fast pace of material developments for PV manufacturing, Heraeus’ Photovoltaics Business Unit is expanding its silver paste R&D capabilities at its site in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. Read more

NPD Solarbuzz: U.S. solar PV project pipeline grows to 43 GW

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 15:32 (Solarserver)

NPD Solarbuzz Inc. (Santa Clara, California, U.S.) estimates that the U.S. solar photovoltaic (PV) project pipeline has grown to 43 GW, and predicts that the nation will become the world's third-largest PV market in 2014, after China and Japan. Currently 8.5% of this capacity, or 3.7 GW, is under construction. Read more

LDK Solar shipments, sales and losses improve in Q3

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 15:31 (PV-Tech)

LDK Solar has reported increased shipments, higher revenue and reduced losses for the third quarter of 2013, while cash levels also improved by approximately US$10 million after plummeting to only US$85.1 million in the previous quarter. Read more

JA Solar reports slight loss in Q3 2013 despite booming sales into Asian markets

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 15:05 (Solarserver)

JA Solar Co. Ltd. (Shanghai) has reported above-guidance shipments at 500 MW in the third quarter of 2013, but still came in at a -1.8% operating margin and net loss of USD 37.1 million. The company also reported a 7% year-over-year growth to USD 287 million in revenues. Read more

SEAT completes 11MW rooftop solar project

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 14:46 (PV-Tech)

Automobile manufacturer, SEAT, part of the Volkswagen group, has completed an 11MW PV project on the roof of its factory in Martorell, Spain. Read more

SolarCity to open 10 new operations centres in California

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 13:22 (PV-Tech)

US solar installer SolarCity will almost double its presence in California by opening 10 new operations centres in the state by the end of 2013. Read more

Lightsource launches recruitment drive for new O&M division

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 12:14 (Solarpowerportal)

London-based solar developer, Lightsource Renewable Energy, has announced a recruitment drive for its newly-launched operations and management division. Read more

SolarWorld signs deal with Bosch to buy cell and module facilities in Germany

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 12:13 (PV-Tech)

Bosch has sold its solar cell and module operations in Arnstadt, Germany to SolarWorld, securing around 800 jobs, according to an official statement from the company. Financial details were not disclosed. Read more

Brazilian solar thermal market grows 11% in 2012, steady growth over last five years

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 10:01 (Solarserver)

Brazil installed 1.14 million square meters of solar thermal collectors in 2012, an 11% growth over 2011 levels, according to a presentation by trade group ABRAVA. The Brazilian market has shown a steady growth of 6.5–21% over the last five years, in contrast to the mixed fortunes of European solar thermal markets. As of 2011, Brazil was the world's fourth-largest solar thermal market, after China, Turkey and Germany. However, unlike these three larger markets, unglazed collectors made up nearly half of the nation's market, with glazed collectors representing the largest share and little market for evacuated tube systems. Read more

Spire installs solar PV module production line in Eastern Europe

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 9:50 (Solarserver)

Spire Corp. (Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.) has installed its turn-key solar photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturing line to an un-named customer in Eastern Europe, which the company says is the first of its kind in the region. Spire is providing on-going technical support for the training and production ramp-up of the line, and expects the first production modules to be delivered by the end of 2013. Modules from the line are intended for the utility-scale PV market in the region. Read more

GTM Research: Global solar PV O&M markets to triple by 2017

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 9:46 (Solarserver)

GTM Research Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) has released a new report which predicts that the market for operations and maintenance (O&M) services for solar photovoltaic (PV) plants will triple in size by 2017. “Megawatt Scale PV O&M Market” finds very large price and service level variations in the current market, with up to double the cost in high-priced markets such as Italy versus low-cost markets such as the United States. The report also finds that higher prices are often due to local market conditions and not service levels. Read more

SolarWorld AG acquires solar PV activities of Robert Bosch GmbH

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 8:48 (Solarserver)

On November 27th, 2013 SolarWorld AG (Bonn, Germany) signed an agreement to acquire parts of Robert Bosch GmbH's (Gerlingen, Germany) solar photovoltaic (PV) business, SolarWorld reports in an Ad hoc announcement. As part of the agreement, SolarWorld will take over a solar PV cell production capacity of 700 MW as well as a PV module production capacity of 200 MW from Bosch Solar Energy AG in Arnstadt, a city in the German state of Thuringia. Read more

RWE Scraps Atlantic Array Offshore Wind Farm in UK

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 18:40 (Renewable Energy World)

Germany's RWE has scrapped plans to build the £4 billion Atlantic Array offshore wind farm in Britain because of "market conditions and significant technical challenges." Read more

Solar Is Valuable Resource in Climate Action Plan

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 22:24 (Renewable Energy World)

As the UN Climate Conference ended with a whimper last week, the U.S. continues to move forward in its attempts to curtail climate change. President Obama this month issued an executive order establishing a task force of state and local officials to identify ways America can respond and be resilient to the effects of climate change. The order, alon Read more

Brighton Energy Coop raises £280,000 in five weeks

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 18:29 (Solarpowerportal)

Brighton Energy Coop has announced that it has raised the £280,000 required for the first phase of its solar project in five weeks. Read more

Earnings Season For Ten Clean Energy Stocks

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 16:13 (Renewable Energy World)

The third quarter earnings season has been quite eventful for my Ten Clean Energy Stocks for 2013 and six alternative picks model portfolios, so much so that writing about them has taken a back seat to keeping up with the announcements. There were a number of earnings disappointments and earnings announcements which were in line with my expectations but the market treated like disappointments. These resulted in an overall decline of 2.5 percent for the portfolio since the last update, even as my industry benchmarks, the Powershares Wilderhill Clean Energy (PBW) and my small cap benchmark (IWM) were up 1.0 percent and 3.9 percent over the months since October 15th. Read more

Earnings Season for Ten Clean Energy Stocks

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 16:13 (Renewable Energy World)

The third quarter earnings season has been quite eventful for my Ten Clean Energy Stocks for 2013 and six alternative picks model portfolios, so much so that writing about them has taken a back seat to keeping up with the announcements. There were a number of earnings disappointments and earnings announcements which were in line with my expectations but the market treated like disappointments. These resulted in an overall decline of 2.5 percent for the portfolio since the last update, even as my industry benchmarks, the Powershares Wilderhill Clean Energy (PBW) and my small cap benchmark (IWM) were up 1.0 percent and 3.9 percent over the months since October 15th. Read more

Navigating New Developments in Turkey’s Growing Renewable Energy Market

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 15:34 (Renewable Energy World)

In February of this year, Turkey’s Energy Minister Taner Yildiz, announced plans to increase the ratio of the country’s renewable energy resources to 30 percent of total energy production by 2023. Over the next ten years The Turkish government is seeking considerable investments to fund projects in wind, solar, hydropower, biomass and geothermal energy, believing a thriving renewable industry to be pivotal to future economic growth. Turkey has already enticed major international investors such as General Electric and Siemens AG; General Electric opened the 22.5-megawatt (MW) Sares wind farm and 10-MW Karadag site, and is scheduled to supply turbines to Fina Enerji Holding Read more

A Ten Trillion Dollar Guide to Creating Solar Climate Wealth

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 15:00 (Renewable Energy World)

If you’re a solar entrepreneur with a brilliant idea or product that will revolutionize the solar industry, or the wind industry…or any cleantech industry, here’s a tip: Buy, borrow, or steal Jigar Shah’s new book Creating Climate Wealth. Shah is best known as the founder and former CEO of SunEdison and who later became the CEO of Carbon War Room. Read more

Duke Energy underway with 30MW of PV in North Carolina

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 12:23 (PV-Tech)

Duke Energy’s subsidiary, Duke Energy Renewables, has started construction on 30MW of solar projects in North Carolina. Read more

BNEF to compile global index for clean energy investment in developing nations

Tuesday, 11.26.2013 - 10:13 (Solarserver)

Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF, New York City) has announced that it will compile a new global index to measure and rank the investment climate for clean energy in developing nations. The Climatescope Index was conceived by the Inter-American Development Bank's Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) and is supported by the governments of the UK and the United States. The index will look at government policies and the level of investment in clean energy in 55 nations across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Read more