News of the year 2013

Date: 28.06.2013



Photovoltaics

Suntech seeking debt-for-equity swap with bondholders and seeks new investors

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 16:24 (PV-Tech)

A select group of Suntech Power Holdings bondholders have agreed a second time extension to talks over its US$541 million debt payment default. Read more

Small-scale Anaerobic Digestion: Are Planning Policies Getting in the Way?

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 14:00 (Renewable Energy World)

As a proven and highly effective way of generating energy from waste, anaerobic digestion offers great potential to farmers for converting waste into biogas that can also be used to generate electricity. It produces a nutrient-rich digestate that can be used as a fertiliser into the bargain. It has the support of the coalition government. Both small and large scale AD plants are now up and running in many parts of the country. There’s a great untapped potential for the wider use of the technology. And yet it’s being held back by planning policies – both nationally and sometimes at a local level. Read more

Sungrow supplies inverters for first utility-scale US project

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 12:11 (PV-Tech)

Chinese inverter manufacturer Sungrow Power Supply has secured its first utility-scale order in the USA. Read more

Chinese producer Sungrow to supply inverters for 6 MW PV plant in Massachusetts

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 8:45 (Solarserver)

Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd. (Hefei, China) will supply Southern Sky Renewable Energy LLC (Boston, Massachusetts, US) with 10 of its SG500LV inverters for a 6 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) project in the US state of Massachusetts. The plant in Carver, Massachusetts will be the largest in the nation to feature Chinese-made inverters. Sungrow authorized agent SDL Solar LLC (Athens, Greece) procured the order. Read more


Thermal Power/Heating

Central Texas Dreams Big for Solar Energy Center

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 17:59 (Renewable Energy World)

Texas A&M University-Central Texas (TAMU-CT) is opening the doors for what it claims will be the planet's biggest solar energy test facility, a 50-MW undertaking spanning both commercial demonstrations and testing, with an incubator program to shepherd newer technologies. The system also will produce all of the university's power requirements (achieved via net metering), housing enough renewable energy to power the entire TAMU-CT's campus. Read more

Solar Shakeout: France-based module supplier enters bankruptcy proceedings

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 15:57 (PV-Tech)

Small France-based module manufacturer, Solarezo has entered bankruptcy proceedings in an effort to restructure its finances having a reported €50 million order backlog with only a 65MW production capacity, according to the company’s website. Read more

JvG Thoma builds 10MW Nigeria module plant

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 15:51 (PV-Tech)

German solar firm JvG Thoma is to supply an unnamed company with manufacturing equipment for a 10MW PV module plant in Nigeria. Read more

Distributed solar: Duke Energy invests in Clean Power Finance

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 15:21 (Solarserver)

Clean Power Finance (CPF, San Francisco, US), provider of financial services and software for the distributed solar industry, on June 27th, 2013 announced Duke Energy, the largest electric power holding company in the U.S., as its latest strategic growth equity investor. Duke joins existing CPF equity investors Edison International and two unnamed utility holding companies. Read more

SEIA applauds introduction of SUN Act in US Senate

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 15:16 (Solarserver)

To support the financing of community solar projects, Senator Mark Udall of Colorado on June 27th, 2013 introduced the bipartisan Solar Uniting Neighborhoods (SUN) Act, which SEIA (Washington, D.C., U.S.) President and CEO Rhone Resch applauded. “If approved, Senator Udall’s legislation would allow Americans who work together as a community to employ solar to receive the same tax advantages as individual homeowners and businesses. This is an imaginative and innovative approach to expanding the use of clean solar energy nationwide,” Resch said. Read more

SMA Solar to supply two further Scatec Solar projects in South Africa

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 15:06 (PV-Tech)

SMA Solar is to supply its Sunny Central inverters to Scatec Solar’s Dreunberg and Linde projects under the second round of South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP). Read more

Avenir Solar Energy Chile plans 196MW solar project

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 13:52 (PV-Tech)

Avenir Solar Energy Chile is planning to build and manage a 196MW solar project in Atacama, Chile, called “El Romero Solar”. Read more

Standard Solar to pioneer PV micro-grid system in Maryland

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 13:43 (PV-Tech)

PV integrator Standard Solar is to install what is claimed to be one of the first commercial solar micro-grids in the United States. Read more

Akuo Energy to build 41 MW of solar PV plants in Mali

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 13:14 (Solarserver)

Akuo Energy (Paris, France) has committed to build two solar photovoltaic (PV) plants in Mali totaling 41 MW, through a partnership with non-profit the R20 (Geneva, Switzerland) which also includes hydroelectric plants. Akuo states that it will ensure financing and begin construction “in the coming months”. R20 identified these and 120 MW of hydroelectric projects, for which the government of Mali will supply land. Read more

Ex-Im Bank of Korea loans USD 100 million to Hanwha SolarOne

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 13:09 (Solarserver)

The Import-Export Bank of Korea has awarded a subsidiary of Hanwha SolarOne Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China) a USD 100 million, three-year loan facility, which the company plans to use mostly for working capital. The loan to Hanwha SolarOne (Qidong) Co., Ltd. (Qidong, China) will mature on June 25th, 2016, with a payment of principal due at that time. The interest rate on the loan will float with the three month LIBOR, plus 1.99% per annum. Read more

SEIA hails Senator-elect Ed Markey as a “solar champion”

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 13:05 (Solarserver)

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA, Washington DC, US) has released a statement congratulating Ed Markey on his victory in the June 25th, 2013 election to the US Senate from the state of Massachusetts. Markey has served Eastern Massachusetts for more than three decades as a Congressman, and won the election for the seat vacated when John Kerry was appointed as Secretary of State. During that time Markey has been a leader on Climate Change and environmental issues, as well as a supporter of the solar industry. Read more

WIRSOL appoints Mark Hogan as new addition to board of directors.

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 11:40 (PV-Tech)

International solar provider WIRSOL has appointed Mark Hogan as a new member of its board of directors. Read more

WIRSOL appoints Mark Hogan to board of directors

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 11:40 (PV-Tech)

International solar provider WIRSOL has appointed Mark Hogan as a new member of its board of directors. Read more


Biomass/Pellets

There are no news available

 



Wind Energy

Nordex Announces Closure of US Wind Power Manufacturing Plant

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 16:14 (Renewable Energy World)

Nordex SE, a German wind energy company that opened a U.S. manufacturing plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas to great fanfare in 2009, today announced the closure of the plant. The company blames uncertainty in the U.S. market largely due to the last-minute (and only one-year) extension of the wind energy production tax credit (PTC) and the global overcapacity of wind turbines for the decision to close the plant. Read more

Wind Case Could Become a Lightning Rod for Escalating US-China Trade Tensions

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 13:15 (Renewable Energy World)

For two years wind industry observers have been following U.S. component maker AMSC’s (formerly American Semiconductor) suit against the world’s second largest wind turbine manufacturer, China’s Sinovel. The suit alleged theft of intellectual property – software code for AMSC’s PM3000 control system, which works with its low-voltage ride-through (LVRT) to regulate the flow of electricity to the grid – and use of the stolen software in Sinovel’s wind turbines. AMSC had filed a suit with a US federal court in its home state of Massachusetts, and corresponding ‘cease and desist’ civil actions in the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court and the Hainan Read more


Hydropower

MidAmerican Energy subsidiary completes largest single PV project bond financing

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 12:55 (PV-Tech)

Solar Star Funding, a subsidiary of investor Warren Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy, has secured US$1 billion to fund the continued construction by SunPower of the 579MW Solar Star 1 and Solar Star 2 projects, formerly known as Antelope Valley. Read more


Hydrogen/Fuel Cell

There are no news available

 



Geo Thermal/Heat Pump

There are no news available

 



Energy Policy/Climate/CO2

Duke Energy joins $42m equity round for Clean Power Finance

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 23:59 (PV-Tech)

Duke Energy, the largest electric utility in the United States, was revealed yesterday as the latest equity investor in a fund that finances residential solar. Read more

ACORE Study Looks at How to Scale Renewable Energy Investment in US

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 14:08 (Renewable Energy World)

As solar projects are becoming more prevalent in the U.S. and more people are interested in going solar at home and work, the U.S. needs to explore new strategies for financing solar. Chief among them is getting more private capital into investing in solar. That’s the focus of a new study from the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE), Calif Read more

Ecomagination ANZ Challenge Winners Set to Develop Renewable Energy Technologies

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 14:00 (Renewable Energy World)

During March, several companies focused on developing low-carbon innovations were announced as winners of GE’s first ever ecomagination Challenge in Australia and New Zealand. The five winners, each awarded a total of $100,000AUD, will develop innovative renewable and smart energy applications in fields as diverse as wave power and engine technology. So, how do the new technologies work? And what are the prospects for future scale-up and commercialisation? Read more

Ron Binz Nominated as New US FERC Chair

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 13:44 (Renewable Energy World)

President Barack Obama nominated Ron Binz to serve as the next chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Committee. If Binz is approved by the Senate, he will replace FERC's current chairman Jon Wellinghoff, who announced his intent to step down when a successor is found in late May 2013. Read more

Dii updates renewable energy plans with more focus on MENA demand

Friday, 6.28.2013 - 8:38 (Solarserver)

The Desertec Industrial Initiative (Dii) has released a document which shows a changed focus for the project, with greater emphasis on renewable energy development to meet the needs of residents of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. “Getting started” also looks at the steps that are necessary to develop a power market spanning MENA and Europe, particularly as regards developing high-voltage DC lines to bring electricity to Europe. Read more


Solar-/Electromobil

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