Sunways settles bank credit issue as precursor to end of insolvency proceedings

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 15:24 (PV-Tech)

There is light at the end of the tunnel for Sunways as it agrees a deal with its previous main bank over credit facilities that led directly to insolvency proceedings in May, 2013. Read more

Meyer Burger division targets organic electronics market

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 13:54 (PV-Tech)

Meyer Burger Group member Roth & Rau B.V. has formed a strategic alliance with materials science firm, Rolic Technologies to develop product offerings for the organic electronics, display, and security markets, which Rolic Technologies already serves. Read more

China Sunergy launches “Super Black” PV module

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 11:45 (Solarserver)

China Sunergy Co., Ltd. (Nanjing, China) on August 8th, 2013 announced that the Company has introduced the Super Black solar photovoltaic (PV) module following an initial custom order for a 60kW rooftop project in Hawaii. Delivery is expected in mid-August. The Super Black module offers a pure black appearance for the entire panel including welding strips, making the module well suited for high-end rooftop projects and integrated constructions. Read more

Wattner buys 10 PV plants totaling 48 MW on sites throughout Germany

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 11:42 (Solarserver)

Wattner AG (Cologne, Germany) has bought ten utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants with a total capacity of 48 megawatts (MW). The total transaction volume is approximately 60 million Euros, Wattner reports in a press release. All plants have been commissioned in 2012 and 2013 on sites throughout Germany. Read more

Northland commissions 40 MW of PV plants in Ontario

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 11:38 (Solarserver)

Northland Power Inc. (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) on August 6th, 2013 announced that the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) has now confirmed that four of six projects in the first phase of Northland's 130 MW ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) program achieved commercial operations on June 21st, 2013. Read more

Solar provides bright spot amid NRG Energy’s disappointing results

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 20:56 (PV-Tech)

NRG Energy solar assets provided a bright spot amid otherwise disappointing quarterly earnings, the company said today. Read more

Project developer pulls plug on 1GW solar plant in Serbia

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 18:27 (PV-Tech)

The largest ever PV power plant, dubbed the OneGiga Project and said to have cost around €1.75 billion has been shelved by the developer Securum Equity Partners and will seek €160 million from the Republic of Serbia at the International Court of Arbitration in London, England. Read more

Wattner invests €60 million in ten German solar farms

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 17:03 (PV-Tech)

German investment firm Wattner has purchased ten solar power plants with a total capacity of 48MW. Read more

BNRG Renewables and Lightsource Renewable Energy partner for 20MW solar farm

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 16:49 (Solarpowerportal)

Irish solar developer BNRG Renewables has partnered with Lightsource Renewable Energy to develop a 20MW solar farm in Kent. Read more

TerniEnergia Romania signs deal to build 2.5MW PV plants as parent company posts tripled profits

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 15:39 (PV-Tech)

TerniEnergia Romania, a subsidiary of Italian energy and waste management company TerniEnergia, signed an agreement with Enhergie to construct three solar power parks in Romania with a combined capacity of 2.5MW. Read more

Habitat for Humanity Increasingly Using Solar Power

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 15:29 (Renewable Energy World)

Habitat for Humanity has been turning increasingly to the sun for energy solutions that will save homeowners money on utility bills. A donated solar installation in Newark, Del. will help a family with two disabled sons save on electricity expenses.  Now they can better afford the health care they need.  This is just the latest in a long string of Read more

Listen Up: Cost Reduction Opportunities for Rooftop Solar

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 15:17 (Renewable Energy World)

For 50 years we strived for cheaper solar panels. Then...BANG...over the last few years prices for this key component of a system dropped down below $1/watt. But completely installed systems are still expensive, about $5/watt for a typical residential system in the U.S. Even if solar panels were FREE, you'd still need an inverter and other electrical equipment, installation labor, financing, and all kinds of paperwork. So how much lower can these costs go? Where are the cost reduction opportunities? Read more

Solarstrom announces financial results and forecasts installation volume growth

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 13:06 (PV-Tech)

SAG Solarstrom, the German PV developer, was optimistic it would top last year’s installation rate as it announced financial results for the first half of 2013. Read more

JA Solar, VDE Institute launch PV module bankability initiative

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 11:50 (Solarserver)

JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China) and the VDE Testing and Certification Institute (Frankfurt, Germany), on August 8th, 2013 announced that they have launched a strategic partnership to increase understanding of the importance of cutting-edge quality assurance and technical bankability in the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry. Read more

ReneSola to supply modules to 29.1 MW solar PV project in Northern Chile

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 10:01 (Solarserver)

ReneSola Ltd. (Jiashan, China) has announced that it will supply 29.1 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules to a subsidiary of Saferay GmbH (Berlin) for a PV project in Northern Chile. ReneSola will deliver 7.5 MW of PV modules in August 2013 and 21.5 MW of PV modules in January 2014 for the La Huayca II PV plant, which will be built by a joint venture of Saferay and Seltec Ltda. (Santiago, Chile). The project is an extension to the 1.4 MW La Huayca I PV plant, and will sell power on Chile's electricity market. Read more

AMEC chosen to construct 250 MW Copper Mountain Solar 3 PV plant in Nevada

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 8:49 (Solarserver)

Sempra U.S. Gas & Power LLC (San Diego, California, U.S.) has awarded AMEC plc (London) the contract to design and construct the 250 MW Copper Mountain Solar 3 solar photovoltaic (PV) project in the U.S. state of Nevada. Construction has already begun on the project, and AMEC expects to complete Copper Mountain 3 in 2015. The project is the third phase of the Copper Mountain Solar complex near Boulder City, following on the 58 MW Copper Mountain Solar 1 and the 150 MW Copper Mountain Solar 2, 92 MW of which has been completed. Read more

Q2 shipment upgrades by Yingli, Trina suggest solar PV industry recovery

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 8:32 (Solarserver)

Both Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. Ltd. (Boading, China) and Trina Solar Ltd. (Changzhou, China) have upgraded their solar photovoltaic (PV) module shipment guidances for the second quarter of 2013. Yingli states that its shipments will increase 23-24% over the first quarter, and Trina expects to ship 630-660 MW. This follows on news that Canadian Solar has beaten its guidance to ship 455 MW of PV modules during the quarter. With Sharp Corp. (Tokyo) reporting a 36% year-over-year increase in shipments and SunPower Corp. (San Jose, California, U.S.) producing modules at full capacity, the second quarter of 2013 already looks very good for top-tier PV makers. Read more

Japan contracts two massive battery storage systems to balance wind, solar PV load

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 8:24 (Solarserver)

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has chosen three companies to install two large-scale battery systems in the northern part of the nation to support the expansion of wind and solar on Japan's electric grid. Through the Large-scale Storage Battery System Demonstration Project, Hokkaido Electric Power Inc. (Sapporo, Japan) and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) will jointly install a 60 MWh redox-flow battery on the island of Hokkaido. Additionally, Tohoku Electric Power Co. Ltd. (Sendai, Japan) will install a 20 MWh lithium-ion battery in the Tōhoku region. Read more

First Solar to manufacture new crystalline silicon line from end of 2014

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 0:57 (PV-Tech)

First Solar will start a 100MW manufacturing line for crystalline silicon cells for the residential distributed market from the end of next year with production scaling from 2015, it was revealed yesterday. Read more

Glennmont raises €200 million for clean energy fund

Friday, 8.9.2013 - 13:56 (PV-Tech)

Renewable energy investment fund manager, Glenmont Partners has launched its second fund. Read more