News of the year 2013

Date: 09.09.2013



Photovoltaics

Dyesol appoints new investor relations director

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 16:15 (PV-Tech)

Australian-based dye solar cell developer, Dyesol, has appointed a new director responsible for international relationships with industry, analysts and investors. Read more

Kilowattsol to provide monthly UK irradiance anomaly data free of charge

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 16:00 (Solarpowerportal)

Kilowattsol, a yield assessment provider for photovoltaic projects, is to provide monthly solar irradiance abnormality maps for the UK, following the launch of similar services in Germany, France and Spain in February 2013. Read more

Kilowattsol to provide monthly UK irradiance anomaly data free of charge

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 14:06 (PV-Tech)

Kilowattsol, a yield assessment provider for photovoltaic projects, is to provide monthly solar irradiance abnormality maps for the UK, following the launch of similar services in Germany, France and Spain in February 2013. Read more

European PV recycling centre to cease waste operations

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 12:15 (PV-Tech)

A Paris-based centre for recycling solar modules has abandoned its operations in PV waste management, citing increasingly difficult regulatory and market conditions. Read more


Thermal Power/Heating

Malicious Bill in California Gets a Rooftop Solar-Friendly Makeover

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 21:36 (Renewable Energy World)

It’s amazing what a couple of lines of legislation can do. Under current law in California, utilities would have to stop offering net metering at the end of 2014. With more residents and solar installed than anywhere else in the U.S., such an abrupt end could spell disaster for the residential solar market in the state.  In light of this legislatio Read more

Energy Bill in California Gets a Rooftop Solar-Friendly Makeover

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 21:36 (Renewable Energy World)

It’s amazing what a couple of lines of legislation can do. California law states that utilities would have to stop offering net metering at the end of 2014. With more residents and solar installed than anywhere else in the U.S., such an abrupt end could spell disaster for the residential solar market in the state.  In light of that legislation, AB Read more

Schneider Electric solar inverters used in Indian PV plants with high Capacity Utilization Factors

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 17:55 (Solarserver)

Schneider Electric SA (Reuil-Malmaison, France) announced that its Conext Core XC solar photovoltaic (PV) inverters are used in seven out of 15 PV plants reaching the highest Capacity Utilization Factor (CUF) in India. CUF is the solar power output per time and installed capacity of a PV plant. Data for the CUF are part of the performance data released by India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) for solar photovoltaic plants in the nation for May and June 2013. Read more

Seraphim partners in Australia with Solar360

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 17:15 (PV-Tech)

Australian PV distributor, Solar360 is partnering with Chinese module manufacturer, Seraphim Solar System to distribute its full range of products, including high efficiency mono and multicrystalline modules. Read more

Former founder of Asola takes over two insolvent subsidiaries

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 16:32 (PV-Tech)

Reinhard Wecker, the former founder and CEO of insolvent module manufacturer, Asola Solarpower GmbH has acquired Asola Automotive Solar Germany GmbH and Asola Quantum Solarpower GmbH, the BIPV division of Asola. Financial details were not disclosed. Read more

Hanwha SolarOne's shipments boom, but losses persist

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 16:00 (Solarserver)

Hanwha SolarOne Co. Ltd. (Shanghai) has released financial results for the first quarter of 2013, reporting USD 193 million in revenues, showing relatively flat growth over the previous year despite a 39% year-over-year increase in shipments to 321 MW. Read more

Belectric, First Solar form JV to build solar PV projects in three continents

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 15:17 (Solarserver)

Belectric Holding GmbH (Mainz, Germany) and First Solar Inc. (Tempe, Arizona, U.S.) have launched a joint venture (JV) to develop and construct solar photovoltaic (PV) projects in Europe, North Africa and the United States. Read more

Australia Leads With Solar Cooling Standard

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 15:10 (Renewable Energy World)

Australia’s standards body, Standards Australia, has published the world’s first solar cooling standard. Read more

CSA Group to bolster Chinese solar standards body

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 14:15 (PV-Tech)

China’s PV standards body has formed a partnership with an international testing and certification body as it looks to improve services for Chinese manufacturers. Read more

First Solar and BELECTRIC create joint venture for PV power plant projects

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 13:06 (PV-Tech)

A joint venture firm has been created between First Solar and BELECTRIC to pursue the building of PV power plants in Europe, North Africa and the US. Read more

Chinese Zombie Solar Companies Emerging After Years of Subsidies

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 11:45 (Renewable Energy World)

Only five solar-power vendors remain in a space built for 170 at a sprawling complex of offices stacked three stories high outside Xinyu city in China’s southeast. Locked doors and empty offices are what’s left of the government’s audacious plan to dominate the global solar industry. What happened in Xinyu is being replicated across China, which used subsidies and $47.5 billion of credit to wrest supremacy from Germany, Japan and the U.S., saddling an industry with losses for at least two years. Read more

3.02 GW of solar PV, CSP projects registered for Brazilian energy auction

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 9:02 (Solarserver)

Developers have registered 2.73 GW of solar photovoltaic (PV) and 290 MW of concentrating solar power (CSP) projects for participation in Brazil's A-3/2013 energy auction, which will be held on November 18th, 2013. The large majority of these proposed projects are in the state of Bahia, at 1.75 GW of PV and 240 MW of CSP. Energy Research Company (EPE, Brazil), which is conducting the auction, noted the large volume of solar projects at 15% of proposed capacity. Read more

NPD Solarbuzz: Indian PV cell production cannot meet domestic demand

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 8:45 (Solarserver)

NPD Solarbuzz Inc. (Santa Clara, California, U.S.) reports that crystalline silicon solar photovoltaic (PV) cell manufacturing capacity has fallen to a five-year low in India, despite USD 470 million being invested into new PV cell facilities in the nation over the past six years. Most of this PV cell production equipment that was shipped into the nation from 2006 to 2012 has been idled, and the company finds that little expertise in operating this equipment was developed. As a result, NPD Solarbuzz estimates that the remaining PV cell manufacturing capacity can meet only 10% of domestic Indian demand over the next 12 months, and that future prospects for the industry remain Read more

ClearSky: Thailand could install 700-1,500 MW of solar PV by 2017

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 8:37 (Solarserver)

ClearSky Advisors (Toronto) states Thailand could install 700-1,500 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity by 2017, noting Thailand's “abundant” solar resources, the development of its PV market and the relative effectiveness of current policies. Thailand has set a goal to install 3 GW of PV by 2021, and ClearSky says that the main drivers that will allow the nation to reach that goal are the Renewable Energy Adder Program (REAP) and a new system of one-time feed-in tariffs. Read more

Austria to install more than 200 MW of solar PV capacity in 2013

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 8:29 (Solarserver)

The Austrian Photovoltaic Association (PVA, Vienna) reports that the nation installed 170 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in 2012, and predicts that it will install more than 200 MW in 2013. However, the association warns that economic conditions for PV are under attack by Austrian electricity and gas regulator E-Control, whose head has proposed a network charge only for PV. PVA rejects the charge as unfair and a distortion of competition. Read more


Biomass/Pellets

Are US Ethanol Mandates Hurting Cellulosic Biofuels Growth?

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 9:22 (Renewable Energy World)

Efforts to roll back rules that nurtured the corn-based ethanol industry threaten to stunt other promising biofuels, according to a developer working on one of the nation’s first commercial plants that won’t use the grain. Read more


Wind Energy

Advances in Hub-Height Met Towers Boost Assessment and Power Performance Verification Campaigns

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 11:37 (Renewable Energy World)

The wind energy industry has traditionally relied on hub-height towers designed for the communications industry. Built-up lattice towers required climbers to install equipment precisely at 60, 80 or even 100 meters in the air. In recent years, the wind measurement landscape has changed rapidly and the result is more accurate wind energy resource and power performance verification campaigns to reduce the financial risk associated with wind farms and boost accuracy in determining energy output from wind farms. Read more

China Wind Farm Idling Improves with Better Planning

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 10:07 (Renewable Energy World)

Fewer of China’s wind turbines are idle after investments in new wind farms slowed and developments shifted to areas with better grid access, aiding operators such as China Longyuan Power Group Corp. Read more


Hydropower

Japanese government to subsidize NGK's sodium-sulfur battery R&D

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 8:56 (Solarserver)

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has chosen NGK Insulators Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan) as a subsidized company through its 2013 “Initiative on Renewable Energy Surplus Power Technology Development”. Through the initiative, METI aims to lower the cost of energy storage systems to the same level as hydropower. NGK states that its current focus is on research and development (R&D) to lower the cost of its sodium sulfur (NaS) battery system. Read more


Hydrogen/Fuel Cell

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Geo Thermal/Heat Pump

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Energy Policy/Climate/CO2

Brazilian renewables auction to include 2.7GW of PV

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 17:42 (PV-Tech)

The next renewable energy auction in Brazil will include more than 2.7GW of PV power. Read more

A Call for Cost Comparisons: How Can the US Achieve a Renewable Energy Transformation?

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 13:29 (Renewable Energy World)

Carnige Melon University’s Climate and Energy Decision Making Center’s recent study, “Regional variations in the health, environmental, and climate benefits of wind and solar generation,” is a testimony to the difficulty of cost justifying renewable energy development. Read more

HVDC: The Key to Revolutionizing the Renewable Energy Grid

Monday, 9.9.2013 - 12:00 (Renewable Energy World)

An aging infrastructure and increasing demand for energy makes technology more important than ever in meeting and sustaining the power needs of the world. In its 2012 World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency said global energy dependency will grow by more than 30 percent between now and 2035. As the shift to more renewable sources catches on, questions are raised about how to make grids more flexible and better able to accommodate intermittent renewable generation. Alstom Grid believes high voltage, direct current (HVDC) technologies are part of the answer. Read more


Solar-/Electromobil

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