Press Releases
National Solar Power Announces Solar Farm Agreement with Liberty County, Florida
National Solar Power today announced the company has entered into a solar farm development agreement with Liberty County, Florida. Under the agreement, National Solar Power will build an up to 100MW solar energy project on property in Liberty County—adjacent to the company’s Gadsden County, Florida solar farm project. The project, representing a $350 million investment… Read more »
Siemens wins steam turbine orders for solar thermal power plants in India
Siemens Energy has been awarded three orders by different customers to supply a total of four steam turbine generator units for solar thermal power plants in the Indian state of Rajasthan. The steam turbines of type SST-700 are intended for the Godawari, Abhijeet and Diwakar & KVK parabolic trough power plants. With a total rating… Read more »
REF CALLS FOR TRANSPARENCY OVER SECRET WIND POWER "CONSTRAINT PAYMENTS
In response to an increasing number of press inquiries about the sums of money paid to wind farms to reduce output (the so-called ‘constraint payments’) Renewable Energy Foundation (REF[1]) is today publishing a new online database giving analysed details of all wind farms constrained off the system through the Balancing Mechanism, which is operated by… Read more »
Climate protection companies meet Minister of Economics
The “climate protection companies” are pioneers and serve as models for other companies. They demonstrate that climate protection pays off. The HARTING Technology Group became a member of the initiative last year. However, environmental and climate protection have been a key part of everyday working life at the company for decades. Energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly practices… Read more »
BTU to Highlight Advanced Thermal Processing Equipment at PV Korea 2012
BTU International will highlight its next-generation thermal processing equipment in Booth K-41 at the upcoming Solar Energy Expo 2012 (Expo Solar/PV Korea), scheduled to take place February 15-17, 2012 in Kintex, Korea. BTU experts will be on hand to discuss advanced thermal processing solutions for photovoltaics including metallization, diffusion and annealing. BTU’s new TRITANTM HV90… Read more »
PROINSO ends year 2011 with supply of 303 MW worldwide, exports amounting to 88%
PROINSO, a company that supplies modules, inverters, trackers and fixed structures for ground- or roof-mounted PV systems, supplied a total 303 MW in modules and inverters in 2011 that were installed in solar projects around the world. Thanks to last year’s turnover, PROINSO, a company of OPDE Group, delivered a total 1,115 MW to different… Read more »
Targray Adds High Quality Silicon Carbide Wafer Slicing Powder to Solar Materials Portfolio
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, January 23rd, 2012-Targray Technology International announces that it has entered into the start of an Asian distribution agreement with Washington Mills AS for the exclusive distribution of its CARBOREX silicon carbide product in Taiwan. Washington Mills AS is one of the world’s largest producers of high quality micro grits and sub-micron powders,… Read more »
MECASOLAR delivers 343 MW in trackers and structures in 2011
MECASOLAR, a multinational company that designs, manufactures and supplies solar trackers, fixed structures and foundation screws, delivered 5,169 solar trackers, equivalent to 61.4 MW, and fixed structures for 203 PV solar projects in 2001. Italy, Spain, US, Canada, Greece and UK were MECASOLAR’s main markets. The firm’s solar trackers and fixed structures have also been… Read more »
Electroluminescence Inspection in Module Production
The quality of the cells used and the production processes in module production have a considerable influence on the resulting electrical performance of the solar module. This performance is reduced by defects, such as cracks, inactive areas which are not detectable by conventional inspection systems. By using electro-luminescence inspection from VITRONIC, all defect areas are… Read more »
Welcome To Power And Energy Solutions Latest Solarpv Industry Survey
Once again, we’ve polled thousands of our readers and asked them where they believe solar power is heading, and where the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats lie. The questions went out to our respondents in the closing months of 2011, and the answers here serve as a litmus for perhaps the most significant year our… Read more »
