Solar photovoltaics silver consumption to increase as prices rise

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 14:15 (PV-Tech)

Industry association, the Silver Institute, said that industrial consumption of silver had “advanced at a healthy pace in 2014”, resulting in a 5% price increase since the beginning of the year. Read more

U.S. PV inverter manufacturer Solectria becomes wholly owned subsidiary of Yaskawa Electric

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 7:33 (Solarserver)

U.S. solar photovoltaic (PV) inverter manufacturer Solectria Renewables, LLC (Lawrence, Mass.) and Yaskawa Electric Corporation (Kitakyushu, Japan) on July 17th, 2014 announced that the companies have reached a definitive agreement whereby Yaskawa Electric will acquire Solectria Renewables through its U.S. subsidiary, Yaskawa America Inc. (Miamisburg, Ohio). Solectria Renewables will continue to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary. Read more

Solar-powered Gondola Saving Clean Mountain Air in Colorado

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 18:14 (Renewable Energy World)

Visiting Telluride, Colorado, the first thing you notice, besides the spectacular mountain view, is a free gondola. The gondola, traveling from the town of Telluride to the town of Mountain Village, is the first and only free public transportation of its kind in the United States. It was built to improve air quality in the region, by keeping cars off the road. In fact, it is keeping about 45 metric tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions out of the air every year. Read more

Solar-plus-storage pilot project in Australia to be funded by German government ministry

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 17:39 (PV-Tech)

An antenna tower in Australia serving a broadcaster will be the site of a solar-plus-storage project funded by the German government and designed to deliver power 24 hours a day. Read more

The Story Is Storage

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 14:55 (Renewable Energy World)

Walking into the 2014 Intersolar North America San Francisco exhibit it became apparent there was a story embedded in the products and services displayed on the three different floors of the Moscone Center West. Read more

CIGS cell efficiency of 15% targeted at Solar Frontier’s ‘blueprint’ module factory

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 14:35 (PV-Tech)

Work continues apace on the new factory that will serve as a “blueprint” for the future plans of Japanese thin-film module manufacturer Solar Frontier, with the company confirming to PV Tech that it will target a cell efficiency of 15% on its production lines. Read more

SunEdison, Inc. and TerraForm Power announce pricing of solar yieldco IPO

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 14:26 (Solarserver)

SunEdison, Inc. (Beltsville Md.) on July 17th, 2014 announced that TerraForm Power, Inc. (Maryland Heights Mo.) a yieldco spun out of SunEdison, has priced an underwritten initial public offering of 20,065,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a price to the public of USD 25.00 per share. The shares will begin trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on July 18th, 2014. Read more

Intersolar North America showcased latest innovations shaping global solar PV and thermal markets

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 14:23 (Solarserver)

Intersolar North America, the best-attended solar industry exhibition and conference in North America, successfully concluded its seventh annual show in California, the United States' largest solar market. Over the course of three days, more than 17,000 visitors from 74 countries visited 530 exhibitors, and saw the latest innovations in the photovoltaic (PV), energy storage, balance of systems, mounting and tracking systems, and solar heating and cooling market sectors. Read more

Pakistan solar tax slammed as imports left stranded

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 14:15 (PV-Tech)

A former Pakistani technology minister has attacked a new tax that has left containers full of imported solar equipment reportedly stranded at ports in the Asian country. Read more

Two non-executive directors quit LDK Solar board

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 12:15 (PV-Tech)

Joint provisional liquidators of Cayman Islands-registered solar wafer producer, LDK Solar, have said that two non-executive directors of the company have resigned, without citing any reasons for the departures. Read more

China’s BYD to set up solar fab in Sao Paulo

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 12:15 (PV-Tech)

Chinese manufacturer, BYD, has chosen Sao Paulo in Brazil for a new manufacturing campus, including a solar panel factory. Read more

EnergyTrend: Solar wafer and PV module prices continue to drop due to strong competition, weak demand

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 10:35 (Solarserver)

Solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturers are still conservative about market demand even though the result of the US-China anti-dumping preliminary verdict will be announced soon, TrendForce's (Taipei, Taiwan) EnergyTrend division reports. These circumstances have led to weak demand in July, and slow stock clearance have led to high inventory levels within the overall supply chain. Recent market prices have also substantially declined and certain quotations even decreased below manufacturers’ breakeven point, which in turn led to lowest OEM prices in recent times, according to EnergyTrend. Read more

San Carlos Solar Energy secures financing to expand its portfolio of solar PV projects in the Philippines

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 10:32 (Solarserver)

"Having constructed and grid-connected the first utility-scale solar plant in the country, we are keen to make the most of our experience, and pursue our expansion projects announced at our plant's inauguration on May 15th, with the attendance of His Excellency President Benigno S. Aquino,” commented Jose Maria P. Zabaleta, President of SaCaSol. San Carlos Solar Energy Inc. (SaCaSol, Manila, Philippines), has tapped the bridge financing market in the Philippines for the first time, as it seeks to expand its portfolio of solar photovoltaic (PV) projects under construction. The financing was fully provided by Bank of the Philippines (BPI). Read more

ET Solar extends presence in Turkey’s PV market in cooperation with German project developer

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 10:31 (Solarserver)

ET Solar Energy Corp. (Nanjing, China) announces that it has supplied high quality PV modules to DOMILUX Leuchten Herstellung und Vertrieb GmbH (DOMILUX), a German solar photovoltaic (PV) project developer and EPC company, for a 728 kW rooftop PV array in Turkey. Located in Karabuk, Safranbolu, the rooftop PV plant was constructed by DOMILUX, and was completed and grid-connected in June 2014 with ET Solar as the exclusive PV module provider. Read more

Grupotec secures 200MW UK solar farm pipeline

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 10:00 (Solarpowerportal)

Renewable energy project developer, Grupotec Renewables, has announced that it has secured a project pipeline of 200MW in the UK. Read more

Yingli Solar to supply 3 MW of PV modules to distributed generation demonstration, self-consumption project in Hubei Province, China

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 7:29 (Solarserver)

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (Boading, China), known as "Yingli Solar", on July 17th, 2014 announced that it will supply 3 MWs of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules to a demonstration project for distributed generation (DG) in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province in eastern China. The PV modules will be installed at the Wuhan Dongxihu Bonded Logistics Center, a large-scale distribution and import-export facility located in the city's bonded logistics zone. The project will consist of approximately 12,000 multicrystalline Yingli Solar PV modules, which will be mounted on the rooftops of four separate warehouses, covering a total of 39,000 square meters. The project Read more

Tata Power Solar partners with Bajaj Finance to make solar PV, thermal systems more accessible in India

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 7:21 (Solarserver)

Tata Power Solar (Bangalore), India’s largest integrated solar energy player, has partnered with Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Pune, India) to provide interest-free Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) options to consumers looking to buy solar products. This national financing tie-up will help make solar much more attractive and an affordable alternative to conventional power sources, Tata Power Solar emphasizes. Read more

Hydropower Project on the Kapuskasing River Is a First for Many Reasons

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 13:41 (Renewable Energy World)

The Kapuskasing River Waterpower Project is a 22-MW development of four hydroelectric sites along the Kapuskasing River in northeastern Ontario, Canada. Construction on the project began in 2005. What is unique about this project, is how it successfully demonstrates a new business model for hydropower, perhaps the first of its kind, through the collective partnerships of the five owners, which include three First Nation communities (Brunswick House First Nation, Chapleau Ojibwe First Nation and Chapleau Cree First Nation), the municipality of Kapuskasing and the private developer, Hydromega Services Inc. Read more

Overcoming Hurdles To Use More Renewable Energy

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 23:31 (Renewable Energy World)

Last week, General Motors joined 11 other companies committed to renewable energy in signing on to the Renewable Energy Buyers’ Principles – a clear set of guidelines designed to help utilities and renewable energy providers understand how they can help make renewable energy investments easier for companies and meet rising demand. As one of the man Read more

Top 5 Renewable Energy Crowdfunding Platforms

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 18:04 (Renewable Energy World)

Over the years we’ve seen and experienced many challenges and barriers in the constantly evolving renewable energy industry. There are regulatory hurdles, technical challenges, and consumer acceptance, to name a few. But one of the biggest impediments to widespread change has always been finance. Now, the emerging finance method of “crowdfunding” h Read more

DOE funding for RE projects on US tribal lands

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 13:15 (PV-Tech)

The US Department of Energy has made US$7 million available for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects on tribal lands. Read more

SunEdison yield co poised for IPO

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 12:52 (PV-Tech)

US PV energy provider SunEdison’s yield co subsidiary, TerraForm, will begin trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange today. Read more

WindStream Technologies installs 80kW hybrid project in Kingston, Jamaica

Friday, 7.18.2014 - 5:40 (PV-Tech)

Small wind sector leader WindStream Technologies has developed and installed one of the world’s largest hybrid renewable energy projects on the rooftop of the law firm of Myers, Fletcher & Gordon in Kingston, Jamaica. Read more