Feed-in Tariff Breakthrough in Iowa?

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 15:42 (Renewable Energy World)

Could the conservative heartland sate of Iowa breach the dam holding back feed-in tariffs for renewable energy in the US when self-styled "progressive" states such as California continue to dawdle? That is the possible implication of a vote by the Agriculture Committee of Iowa's state Senate Thursday, 7 March 2013. Read more

Conergy supplies modules for PV system at hanger and office facilities at Sacramento International Jet Center

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 14:40 (Solarserver)

Sacramento International Jet Center, Sacramento County?s system partner for general aviation at the Sacramento International Airport, has installed a 130 kilowatt (kW) solar photovoltaic (PV) system on hangar and office facilities. The system is comprised of solar modules by Conergy AG (Hamburg, Germany) and was installed by CitiGreen, Inc. & Foothill Electric (Auburn, California), turn-key solar contractors for commercial customers. Read more

Pristine Sun and Mosaic agree first utility-scale crowd funding deal

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 20:38 (PV-Tech)

Crowd funding for solar projects took a significant stride towards maturation last week with the announcement of the first utility-scale financing deal agreed between Pristine Sun and Mosaic. Read more

Pristine Sun and Mosaic agree first first utility-scale crowd funding deal

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 20:38 (PV-Tech)

Crowd funding for solar projects took a significant stride towards maturation last week with the announcement of the first utility-scale financing deal agreed between Pristine Sun and Mosaic. Read more

Mercom predicts 34.5GW installed global capacity in 2013

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 18:05 (PV-Tech)

Clean energy communications and consulting firm Mercom Capital has forecast 2013 solar installations to reach 34.5GW. Read more

TS Solartech to expand Malaysian plant

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 16:25 (PV-Tech)

Malaysian solar cell manufacturer TS SolarTech has announced plans to expand its 60MW plant to 640MW by 2015. Read more

New-look digital version of Solar Business Focus launched

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 15:30 (PV-Tech)

Solar Media, publisher of PV-Tech, today launches the new-look digital version of Solar Business Focus. Read more

Japan's Plan for 10% Solar Price Cut Retains Boom Incentive

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 14:54 (Renewable Energy World)

Japan's proposal to cut the price paid for solar power by 10 percent leaves in place incentives for a boom in installations this year, the industry's lobby group said. Read more

Exclusive: UK solar industry wary of EU investigations

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 14:52 (Solarpowerportal)

The threat of European duties on Chinese-manufactured modules is the industry?s most pressing issue according to a series of interviews conducted by Solar Power Portal. Read more

Welspun commissions 50 MW solar PV plant in Rajasthan

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 14:47 (Solarserver)

Welspun Energy Ltd. (Jaipur, India) has commissioned a 50 MW-AC solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in the Indian state of Rajasthan, after completing the plant in five months' time. Welspun built the plant in three phases, commissioning the first 15 MW phase of the plant earlier in 2013. The project was awarded through Phase 1, Batch 2 of the nation's National Solar Mission. Read more

SolarWorld postpones release of 2012 results

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 14:43 (Solarserver)

Citing ongoing negotiations with creditors, SolarWorld AG (Bonn, Germany) has postponed the release of its annual financial report for 2012. The company's management board is currently working on a restructuring plan with Görg law firm and Houlihan Lokey Investment Bank, and states that it will release results as soon as this concept has been approved. The report was scheduled to be released on March 21st, 2013. Read more

Pennar Industries launch solar mounting business in India

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 13:43 (PV-Tech)

Indian manufacturer Pennar Industries has marked its entrance to the solar market with the launch of a business manufacturing solar mounting systems. Read more

Sonnedix completes 9.5MW Thai plant

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 13:34 (PV-Tech)

Solar power producer Sonnedix has surpassed 100MW of installed solar capacity following the completion of a 9.5MW solar plant in the Mae Chan district in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand. Read more

Sonnedix completes 5MW Thai plant

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 13:34 (PV-Tech)

Solar power producer Sonnedix has surpassed 100MW of installed solar capacity following the completion of a 5MW solar plant in the Mae Chan district in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand. Read more

Clean Power Finance: Financing partners comprise up to 80% of major U.S. residential solar companies

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 12:31 (Solarserver)

Clean Power Finance (CPF, San Francisco, California, U.S.), an online marketplace for residential solar financing and provider of solar sales software, on March 11th, 2013, announced partnerships with Roof Diagnostics Inc. (Spring Lake Heights, NJ) and Trinity Solar (Wall, NJ). Over the next few months, the new partnerships will expand the range of residential solar financing options available to installers in Connecticut, Maryland and New York, CPF announces. The company has also established an office in New York City to support its East Coast partners. Read more

Residential solar PV leasing program now available to ReneSola, Sunnova customers in California, Arizona

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 12:27 (Solarserver)

ReneSola Ltd. (Jiashan, China) on March 11th, 2013, announced that its installer and EPC customers in the U.S. may now offer leases to qualified residential customers without requiring a down payment. Sunnova Inc. (Norcross, GA) launched its leasing program in late 2012 and selected ReneSola as one of its approved vendors, based on the Company's superior quality line of high-efficiency solar PV modules. Read more

METI committee proposes 10% decrease in Japan's feed-in tariff rates for solar PV

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 8:33 (Solarserver)

A committee of Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has proposed a 9.5-10% decrease in feed-in tariff levels in Japan during fiscal year 2013, which starts on April 1st, 2013. The Procurement Committee for Solar Energy calls for a reduction to from JPY 42 per kWh to JPY 38 (USD 0.396) per kWh for systems smaller than 10 kW. Larger systems would receive JPY 36 to 37.8 (USD 0.375 to 0.394) per kWh, depending on whether or not tax is included. Read more

Tamil Nadu issues order implementing net metering, clarifying solar policy

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 8:26 (Solarserver)

The Electricity Regulatory Commission in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu (TNERC) has issued an order to implement net metering for domestic rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) plants, as well as clarifying obligated entities under the solar purchase obligation (SPO). Additionally, the order requires public utility TANGEDCO to develop detailed procedures and standards for connectivity of PV plants, as well as accreditation of issuance and trading of renewable energy certificates (RECs). Read more

Sweden's Bioenergy Success Story

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 13:47 (Renewable Energy World)

Sweden's Bioenergy Pyrogrot demonstration project was recently awarded part of a ?1.2 billion award from the EU's New Entrants' Reserve (NER)300 program, which acts as a vehicle for demonstrating environmentally safe carbon capture and storage (CCS) and new European renewable energy technologies at a pre-commercial scale. The projects will be co-financed with revenues obtained from the sale of 200 million emission allowances from the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). Read more

What Do Iceland and Kenya Have in Common? Lots of Clean and Renewable Geothermal Energy

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 18:54 (Renewable Energy World)

Walking out of Keflavik airport as the arctic breeze hit my face at 50 km per hour, I thought to myself, ?I love my job.?  A job that makes a tropical citizen like me enjoy the hospitality of the very warm Icelanders and allows me to learn from their experience is hard to top. With 320,000 citizens and just the size of the U.S. state of Kentucky, s Read more

Converting New York State Entirely to Renewable Energy: What Would It Look Like?

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 18:24 (Renewable Energy World)

While the State of New York hashes out deep disagreement over how to deal with sugary megadrinks that contribute to obesity, maybe they can turn their attention to something a little less complicated ? like mapping a full conversion to 100 percent renewable energy in less than 20 years. Read more

Low Natural Gas Prices Haven't Detracted from Wind's Hedge Appeal, Says LBNL

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 15:15 (Renewable Energy World)

Even with recent declines in natural gas prices resulting from the expansion of shale gas production, wind power proves to be beneficial for its ability to give buyers long-term price certainty, a new report from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) finds. Read more

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Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 14:56 (Renewable Energy World)

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What Do Struggling Gas-Fired Plants Mean for Renewables?

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 14:00 (Renewable Energy World)

Three years ago, Germany's largest utility spent 400 million euros ($523 million) building a natural gas-fired power station. Later this month, the company may close the plant because it's losing so much money. Read more

Energy and Netflix's 'House of Cards'

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 14:00 (Renewable Energy World)

Netflix?s ?House of Cards? is the latest ?Downton Abbey.? Or for us older folks, it is the latest who-shot-JR Ewing ? a television series that lots of people are talking about. A story of Congressional intrigue, the 13-part series has caught the attention of not only the viewing public, but also Washington insiders, who are having a good time debat Read more

Welspun Energy commissions 50MW PV plant ahead of schedule

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 13:03 (PV-Tech)

Indian PV project developer Welspun Energy has confirmed to PV-Tech that it has commissioned its 50MW solar project in the Indian state of Rajasthan ahead of schedule. Read more

Renewable Energy Boom Depedent on New Energy Infrastructure

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 13:00 (Renewable Energy World)

As the low-emission economy evolves, building new generation technologies is just half the challenge. The other half of the challenge lies in building the transport and distribution networks ? and Asia is the region to watch, specifically China, Japan, South Korea, the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) States, East Timor and Australia. Read more

Renewable Energy Boom Dependent on New Energy Infrastructure

Wednesday, 3.13.2013 - 13:00 (Renewable Energy World)

As the low-emission economy evolves, building new generation technologies is just half the challenge. The other half of the challenge lies in building the transport and distribution networks ? and Asia is the region to watch, specifically China, Japan, South Korea, the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) States, East Timor and Australia. Read more