Green Electrician Group teams up with Romag to avoid China duties

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 17:10 (PV-Tech)

UK-based distributor and installer, Green Electrician Group, is buying PV modules from UK manufacturer Romag, avoiding the European Commission’s 11.8% duty applied to Chinese solar modules.   Read more

Order Focus: Enrich Energy selects JinkoSolar modules for 25.8MW solar park

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 15:33 (PV-Tech)

Enrich Energy has selected JinkoSolar modules for its 25.8MW solar park in Mandrup Village, Solapur District, Maharashtra State, claimed to be the first private solar park to be built in India. Read more

Green Electrician Group teams up with Romag to avoid China duties

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 13:42 (Solarpowerportal)

The Green Electrician Group is introducing solar panels from UK manufacturer Romag, avoiding the European Commission’s 11.8% duty applied to Chinese solar modules. Read more

From Debt Equity to Tax Equity: How To Entice New U.S. Solar Investors

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 22:27 (Renewable Energy World)

At this year's PV America conference, Jennifer Runyon spoke with Conor McKenna from Reznick Capital Market Securities, Tim Short, Capital Dynamics and Laura Jones of Hunton and Williams. They discussed the complexities of solar project finance and how to attract new entrants into the space. Read more

K Road withdraws plans for Calico Solar Project

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 18:35 (Solarserver)

On June 20th, 2013 K Road Power LLC (New York City) withdrew its application to the California Energy Commission (CEC) to build the Calico Solar project, a solar photovoltaic (PV) project in California's Mojave Desert. Read more

De Gucht in conciliatory mood with Chinese over solar spat

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 17:25 (Solarpowerportal)

European trade commissioner Karel De Gucht has reiterated his desire to see a negotiated resolution to the increasingly fraught EU-China solar trade spat. Read more

De Gucht in conciliatory mood with Chinese over solar spat

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 17:11 (PV-Tech)

European trade commissioner Karel De Gucht has reiterated his desire to see a negotiated resolution to the increasingly fraught EU-China solar trade spat. Read more

China Moves Production Overseas to Avoid EU Solar Duties

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 16:22 (Renewable Energy World)

As Europe slaps duties on $15 billion of solar panels, their Chinese producers are preparing to counterattack with devices assembled from South Africa to Istanbul that will avoid the import taxes. Read more

New UK solar park investment partnership

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 16:04 (Solarpowerportal)

Renewable energy and sustainable forestry investment advisors, FIM Services have launched their Solar Distribution Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) to aid investment in UK solar parks. Read more

Cool Earth Solar Testing Tubular Plastic Concentrating PV System

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 15:43 (Renewable Energy World)

It’s a new turn on concentrating photovoltaics (CPV). Cool Earth Solar’s inflated, tubular CPV system encases PV cells in a lightweight tube of thin plastic films, which concentrate the sun on the cells. Cool Earth Solar partnered with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to test and deploy 100 kilowatts of the unique CPV modules at the Livermore Read more

Todo Solar MX builds PV carport for Toyota truck plant in California

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 15:24 (PV-Tech)

Todo Solar MX has designed and built a 24kW carport at Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Baja California, Mexico, using Kyocera modules. Read more

Solar Shakeout: Scheuten Solar administrator looking for buyer of German module plant

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 15:08 (PV-Tech)

Attempting to take advantage of the recently imposed EU anti-dumping duties, preliminary insolvency administrator of Scheuten Solar Production, Bernd Depping is seeking a buyer for the module assembly plant. Read more

US government awards GSA schedule contract to Gehrlicher Solar

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 14:41 (Solarserver)

Gehrlicher Solar AG's (Neustadt B. Coburg, Germany) US subsidiary has received a five-year General Services Administration (GSA) schedule contract, which will allow US government and military agencies to buy the company's solar photovoltaic (PV) solutions through pre-negotiated rates, terms and conditions. Read more

The Low Carbon Energy Company announces partnership with Zentralsolar

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 14:14 (Solarpowerportal)

The Low Carbon Energy Company has penned a distribution deal with German solar manufacturer, Zentralsolar Deutschland GmbH (ZSD solar). Read more

Devon MP hits out at ‘sterile’ solar farms

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 12:55 (Solarpowerportal)

Dr Sarah Wollaston the Conservative MP for Totnes, Brixham and the South Hams has criticised her party’s stance on large-scale solar farm developments. Read more

Cupertino Electric completes 30 MW of solar PV plants for PG&E

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 12:28 (Solarserver)

Cupertino Electric Inc. (Huron, California, US) has announced that it completed two solar photovoltaic (PV) plants totaling 30 MW in California's Central Valley in May 2013. The 20 MW and 10 MW PV plants are the fourth and fifth that Cupertino Electric has built for Pacific Gas & Electric Company's (PG&E, San Francisco, California, US) Solar PV Program since 2011. The program aims for 250 MW of utility-owned PV generation. Read more

JinkoSolar supplies 25.8 MW of PV modules to first private Indian solar park

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 12:24 (Solarserver)

JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China) on June 21st, 2013 announced that it has supplied 25.8 MW of high-efficient solar photovoltaic (PV) modules to the first private solar park in India. Located in Mandrup Village (Solapur District, Maharashtra State, India) the project was developed by Enrich Energy Pvt Ltd. (Pune, India) on a turnkey basis. Read more

Solar Foundation honors significant contributions on global solar energy use with industry awards

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 12:19 (Solarserver)

The Solar Foundation (Washington, DC, US), an independent national nonprofit organization working to demonstrate the global benefits of solar energy through research and education, conferred its first-ever "Solar Foundation Awards" to companies and organizations making significant contributions to advancing the use of solar energy worldwide. In a special ceremony held at Summer Solstice 2013, the Solar Foundation awardees were recognized for excellence in one of four categories. Read more

Israel CSP: Negev Energy chosen to build 110 MW concentrating solar power plant with storage

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 9:16 (Solarserver)

The government of Israel has chosen a joint venture of Abengoa SA (Seville, Spain) and Shikun & Binui (Lod Airport, Israel) to build a 110 MW concentrating solar power (CSP) plant with molten salt storage in Israel's Negev desert. Negev Energy will build, own and operate the Ashalim CSP plant, which will utilize a parabolic trough design. The company expects to begin construction in 2014 once a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Israel Electricity Corp. (Haifa, Israel) and project financing are closed. Read more

No word yet on EU-China negotiations over solar trade case

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 9:11 (Solarserver)

In his remarks following a high-level meeting, EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht noted that while technical discussions continue in Brussels, the EU – China solar trade case was not part of formal discussions with Minister Gao Hucheng of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce. The two officials met for the 27th EU-China Joint Committee on June 21st, 2013 in Beijing. Commissioner De Gucht also noted that is too early in the negotiation process to report any new developments. Read more

More than 1 in 10 Germans are already producing heat or power from solar

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 0:27 (Solarserver)

Noting the key role of solar power in Germany's Energy Transition (Energiewende), the Solar Industry Association (BSW-Solar, Berlin) has announced that 8.5 Germans live in buildings that use solar photovoltaic (PV) or solar thermal systems. Read more

HECO seeks to buy electricity from 43 MW of new solar PV projects at low prices

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 0:27 (Solarserver)

Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO, Honolulu, Hawaii, US) has asked the Hawaiian Public Utilities Commission (HPUC) for permission to negotiate the purchase of electricity from four solar photovoltaic (PV) projects totaling 43 MW. Read more

NREL Drives Toward the Future with Fuel Cell EVs

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 14:00 (Renewable Energy World)

Efforts currently underway at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are contributing to rapid progress in the research, development and testing of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Read more

Public Capital Vehicles Could Expand Renewable Energy's Access to Low-Cost, Abundant Financing

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 21:48 (Renewable Energy World)

Improving the availability of capital to renewable energy projects represents a critical component to lowering the overall cost and scaling the adoption of renewable energy technologies. Public capital — investment raised in the financial markets through securitized instruments and pooled investment vehicles — is a potential means of achieving these goals. Public capital mechanisms offer renewable energy projects — which are regarded as mid-high risk investments in the marketplace — numerous attributes that could be attractive to investors, including: Read more

IDB Report: Renewables could meet the entire electricity needs of Latin America, Caribbean

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 20:04 (Solarserver)

Latin America and the Caribbean’s renewable energy endowment is large enough to cover its projected 2050 electricity needs 22 times over, according to a new report commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB; Washington, D.C., US). The report, “Rethinking our Energy Future”, argues that lower prices and new technologies are making renewables a viable alternative. Solar photovoltaics (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP), geothermal, wave, wind and biomass sources in this region could produce up to 80 petawatt-hours of electricity. Read more

US DOE to open new research center for clean energy grid integration

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 17:18 (Solarserver)

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and its National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL, Golden, Colorado, US) have opened a new facility dedicated to utility-scale integration of technology including solar photovoltaics (PV), wind turbines and electric vehicles. Read more

The One Thing Obama’s Climate Policy Can’t Leave Out

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 16:30 (Renewable Energy World)

When President Obama unveils his climate policy proposal in the coming days, he should focus on the one key element of successful climate and energy policy.  It’s not about utilities or incentives or numbers, it’s about ownership. Climate-protecting energy policy succeeds when communities can keep their energy dollars local by directly owning and p Read more

US DOE opens new research center for clean energy grid integration

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 15:27 (Solarserver)

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and its National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL, Golden, Colorado, US) have opened a new facility dedicated to utility-scale integration of technology including solar photovoltaics (PV), wind turbines and electric vehicles. Read more

Two Exciting Alternative Energy Themes Investors Should Know About

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 14:00 (Renewable Energy World)

Two investment themes in the changing alternative energy landscape have emerged as potential profit centers for investors. To take advantage of these trends, the Roen Financial Report has added in four new companies to the list of about 250 alternative energy companies that we track for our readers. Read more

European Parliament calls for policies to support energy “prosumers”

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 12:38 (Solarserver)

The European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) has approved a report which calls for measures to enable “active, informed consumers and 'prosumers'” in the energy sector. The European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) praised the report, which identifies mechanisms including voluntary demand-side response, decentralized energy storage solutions and aggregations strategies. The document also calls on the European Commission and EU Member States to promote incentives for micro-generation. Read more

Obama Administration to set greenhouse gas limits for existing power plants

Monday, 6.24.2013 - 0:36 (Solarserver)

US President Barack Obama has announced that he will present his administration's plan to reduce carbon pollution on June 25th, 2013 in a speech at Georgetown University (Washington DC). Read more