News of the year 2014

Date: 01.07.2014



Photovoltaics

Meyer Burger confirms contract for first high efficiency SmartWire Connection Technology PV production line in Europe

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 8:58 (Solarserver)

Meyer Burger Technology Ltd. (Thun, Switzerland) on June 30th, 2014 announced that it has successfully concluded a strategic Preferred Supplier contract for the delivery and installation of a fully integrated high efficiency SmartWire Connection Technology (SWCT) line for the manufacturing of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules in Europe. Read more

NRG Yield, Inc. completes acquisition of NRG right of first offer assets

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 8:49 (Solarserver)

NRG Yield, Inc. has completed its previously announced acquisition of three Right of First Offer (ROFO) assets from NRG Energy, Inc. (Princeton, N.J., U.S.) for USD 349 million in total cash consideration, plus assumed project debt of USD 657 million (as of March 31st, 2014) excluding adjustments for working capital. The acquisition, which totals 590 megawatts (MW) of operating capacity, includes two solar photovoltaic (PV) assets, and a natural gas-fired facility in LA County, California. Read more


Thermal Power/Heating

China Panel Makers Hire Private Trade Group to Tackle Trade Wars

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 16:17 (Renewable Energy World)

Chinese solar panel makers have taken an important step to solving their ongoing trade spat with the west by formally launching a private sector trade association to speak on their behalf. The move gives the panel makers their first truly commercial representative to discuss the matter with peers in the U.S. and Europe, providing a better alternati Read more

China Panel Makers Hire Private Association to Tackle Trade Wars

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 16:17 (Renewable Energy World)

Chinese solar panel makers have taken an important step to solving their ongoing trade spat with the west by formally launching a private sector trade association to speak on their behalf. The move gives the panel makers their first truly commercial representative to discuss the matter with peers in the U.S. and Europe, providing a better alternati Read more

Barker promises to put ‘rocket-boosters’ under commercial-scale solar

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 14:59 (Solarpowerportal)

Greg Barker, the minister for climate change, has promised to put “rocket-boosters” under the commercial and industrial solar sectors in the UK. Read more

India to continue rooftop PV subsidy despite budget cuts

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 14:40 (PV-Tech)

India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has said it is to continue to subsidise rooftop solar. Read more

Commercial & domestic rooftop solar PV conference liveblog

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 13:15 (Solarpowerportal)

A live blog from the BPVA’s Commercial and domestic rooftop solar PV conference in London. Read more

UK beats 2013 annual deployment in six months

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 12:51 (Solarpowerportal)

According to the latest report from solar market analyst, NPD Solarbuzz the UK has installed 1.47GW so far in 2014. Read more

First phase of 200MW Ghana PV plan moves ahead

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 12:50 (PV-Tech)

Authorities in northern Ghana have signed a deal to press ahead with the 40MW first phase of what will eventually be 200MW of solar capacity in the region. Read more

UK beats 2013 annual PV deployment in six months

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 12:44 (PV-Tech)

According to the latest report from solar market analyst, NPD Solarbuzz the UK has installed 1.47GW so far in 2014. Read more

UK beats 2013 annual deployment in six months

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 12:44 (PV-Tech)

According to the latest report from solar market analyst, NPD Solarbuzz the UK has installed 1.47GW so far in 2014. Read more

Gestamp Solar to build its first Japanese PV plant with Deutsche Bank funding

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 12:43 (PV-Tech)

Gestamp Solar, headquartered in Spain, has announced its first utility-scale PV project in Japan, which will qualify for government support under Japan’s feed-in tariff (FiT). Read more

BNEF: European renewable energy investment set to surge by 2030; Solar PV and onshore wind to dominate deployment

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 11:59 (Solarserver)

The next decade and a half will see renewable energy raise its share of European electricity generation capacity from 40% in 2012, to 60% in 2030, while the share of fossil-fuel sources such as coal and gas falls from 48% to 27%, according to a major report from research company Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Read more

New Solarbuzz report: U.K. PV deployment in the first half of 2014 exceeds full-year 2013

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 11:20 (Solarserver)

During the first half of 2014 (1H’14), the U.K. solar photovoltaic (PV) industry deployed 1.47 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity, which exceeds the amount of new PV capacity added during 2013. The U.K. is now firmly established as the leading solar PV market in Europe, and the country is expected to become the fourth largest global market for new solar PV deployment in 2014, NPD Solarbuzz Inc. (Santa Clara, California, U.S.), reports. Read more

Intersolar Summit Chile: Solar energy in the Andean country is the beginning of a success story

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 11:14 (Solarserver)

Not only had the Chilean national soccer team caused a sensation during the FIFA World Cup 2014, defeating the 2010 World Cup winner Spain. Also the Intersolar Summit Chile met with a very positive response among the participants in Santiago, the capital of Chile. The good atmosphere at the conference however could be assigned to the promising perspectives of the solar sector in the Andean country rather than the success of the Chilean kickers in Brazil. Read more

German OPV producer Heliatek exhibits at Intersolar North America for the first time

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 10:46 (Solarserver)

Heliatek GmbH (Dresden, Germany), producer of organic solar photovoltaic (OPV) films, has introduced its products at LOPEC and Intersolar Europe in Munich, reaching out to its customers for the first time with its own booth concept. This is now being followed by a first appearance in the US market with a booth at SEMICON West/Intersolar North America. Heliatek will have opaque and transparent types of “HeliaFilm” on display and give a talk on its various applications. Read more

Solarbuzz: Cumulative global solar PV demand surpasses 150 GW in 1H’14

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 9:12 (Solarserver)

The global solar photovoltaic (PV) industry continues to show strong growth, with over 150 GW of solar PV installed across the world, NPD Solarbuzz Inc. (Santa Clara, California, U.S.) announces. The industry has steadily grown over the past several years, increasing from an installed base of only 5 GW in 2005 to almost 200 GW forecast by the end of 2014. Read more

Canadian Solar to supply 12.6 MW of solar PV modules to Turkish consortium

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 8:40 (Solarserver)

Canadian Solar Inc. (Guelph, Ontario) on June 30th, 2014 announced that it has recently signed a sales contract to supply 12.6 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules to Kayseri Organized Industry Zone (KOIZ) and a consortium of companies in KOIZ, (BESLER Tekstil San. ve Tic. A.S and HASCELIK Group of companies- Hascelik Cable, Coreal Cable and Metal Matris) for a solar power project located in Kayseri, Turkey. Read more

Illinois to spend US$30 million in solar power purchasing

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 2:59 (PV-Tech)

Illinois is set to purchase up to US$30 million in PV power and connect it to the state’s energy mix for electricity consumers after legislation was signed into law Saturday that will help expand the PV rooftop market in the state. Read more

Bangladesh receives US$78.4 million from IDA to finance PV systems

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 2:15 (PV-Tech)

The International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank Group’s soft loan subsidiary, has given US$78.4 billion to the Bangladesh Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Development II (RERED II) Project in order to finance solar home systems (SHS) in Bangladesh. Read more


Biomass/Pellets

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Wind Energy

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Hydropower

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Hydrogen/Fuel Cell

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Geo Thermal/Heat Pump

Excess Water from Iceland Geothermal Plant Source of Thriving Spa Business

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 15:47 (Renewable Energy World)

Blue Lagoon with Svartsengi geothermal power plant in the background, Iceland. Credit: Vestman, (c) CC BY 2.0. “Why would you build a power plant so close to such a great spa facility?” This is frequently the first question people ask when visiting Iceland’s Blue Lagoon.  This is a valid question, and there is a very logical reason for the location Read more


Energy Policy/Climate/CO2

Court ruling clears path for German EEG reform, claims Gabriel

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 16:15 (PV-Tech)

A European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling confirming countries have no obligation to underwrite one another’s renewable energy clears the way for Germany’s energy reforms, the country’s vice chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has claimed. Read more

Cape Wind Getting $150 Million US Energy Department Loan Guarantee

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 15:52 (Renewable Energy World)

Cape Wind Associates LLC received a conditional $150 million loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy for its project off the coast of Massachusetts. Read more

Renewables to Receive Lion's Share of $7.7 Trillion in Global Power Funding

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 15:41 (Renewable Energy World)

Renewable energy may reap as much as two-thirds of the $7.7 trillion in investment forecast for building new power plants by 2030 as declining costs make it more competitive with fossil fuels. Read more

A Ray of Clean Energy Sunshine Peaking Through the Beijing Haze

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 14:15 (Renewable Energy World)

China’s environment is in a deplorable state, a nasty byproduct of the most successful spurt of economic growth in world history. Hardly a month passes without more vivid examples of how air, water and soil pollution threatens the health of millions of Chinese and undermines the quality of life that the Chinese worked so hard to achieve over the last decades. Read more

A Ray of Clean Energy Sunshine Peeking Through the Beijing Haze

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 14:15 (Renewable Energy World)

China’s environment is in a deplorable state, a nasty byproduct of the most successful spurt of economic growth in world history. Hardly a month passes without more vivid examples of how air, water and soil pollution threatens the health of millions of Chinese and undermines the quality of life that the Chinese worked so hard to achieve over the last decades. Read more

Abu Dhabi signs off loan for 6MW Sierra Leone PV project

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 13:52 (PV-Tech)

The government of Sierra Leone has agreed a loan worth around US$9 million from the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) to build a 6MW solar park in the capital city, Freetown. Read more

Former Daqo COO returns to oversee Xinjiang polysilicon plant expansion

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 12:15 (PV-Tech)

China-based polysilicon producer, Daqo New Energy has re-appointed its former chief operations officer (COO), Qiangmin Zhou to the same role after previously leaving the company for personal reasons in April, 2013. Read more

Cost cuts will drive Europe to 60% renewables by 2030, says BNEF

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 11:00 (PV-Tech)

Cost-competitive renewable energy will spur Europe’s electricity generation toward 60% by 2030, according to a new report from Bloomberg News Energy Finance. Read more

Report: Americas to add 943GW of electricity generation capacity by 2030

Tuesday, 7.1.2014 - 10:15 (PV-Tech)

A new report from Bloomberg News Energy Finance has revealed that the electricity generation capacity in the Americas is due for a big boost in the near future. Read more


Solar-/Electromobil

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