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24-5-2013Clenergy Supplies PV-ezRack Mounting System for 3.3MW PV Project in Japan
Clenergy supplied its PV-ezRack SolarTerrace II ground mounting system for a company in Japan that completed four PV projects totalling 3.3MW in Tokushima (Yoshino-cho, Ishii-cho, Nakakubo and Mima) last autumn. The project and further subsequent cooperation in PV projects have led the two companies into a deeper and wider partnership. -
24-5-2013Panasonic to Stop Making Silicon Wafers in U.S.
May 22, 2013 - Panasonic Corp. will cease U.S. production of silicon wafers for use in solar cells as it consolidates output at a new plant in Malaysia, the Nikkei reported in its Thursday morning edition. -
24-5-2013ABB to Produce Solar Inverters in South Africa as Solar Market Expands
May 23, 2013 – ABB plans to start production of central inverters in South Africa to support the rapidly growing local photovoltaic (PV) market and local content requirements. -
24-5-2013
Grace Solar Expects 100MW Shipment to Japan PV Market in 2014
Recently, the 1MW ground PV power station which locates in Chiba prefecture of Japan has been connected to grid. The whole project applied Grace Solar ground mounts system. Grace Solar will export about 50MW solar mounts to Japan in 2013 which is 10% of the company’s total export, and predict to add up to 100MW in 2014. -
23-5-2013Conergy and Renew HGmbH Expand Their Collaboration with Citizens' Solar Park
22 May 2013 – Conergy and its long-time partner Renew HGmbH are supporting the local energy transition in the German Eifel with a solar power plant with a capacity of around 1 megawatt. The investor of the solar park is the local energy cooperative MEHR Energie eG. Its members, now numbering over 100, have made it their aim to promote the supply of electricity from renewable energy sources in their region of Mosel-Eifel-Hunsrück, and they are now laying the foundations with this first major solar project in Ulmen. On an area of some 25,000 square meters, equivalent to three football pitches, the citizens' solar park (Bürgersolarpark) will be generating around 845,000 kilowatt hours of clean electricity every year. This is sufficient energy for supplying around 240 households and therefore nearly a quarter of Ulmen's residents. -
23-5-2013Soitec Announces Four-Junction Solar Cell with 43.6% Efficiency for CPV Systems
May 22, 2013 - Soitec (Euronext) announced today the industry's first four-junction solar cell device, which works under concentrated sunlight with 43.6 percent efficiency. -
23-5-2013
SolarWorld to Pass Major Resolutions in Financial Restruction
May 22th, 2013 - Solar technology group SolarWorld AG continues the process of its financial restruturing as scheduled by holding meetings of its noteholders today and tomorrow. After these meetings creditors shall appoint a noteholders' representative for further negotiations latest in early July. It is planned to have the necessary resolutions for the implementation of restructuring measures be passed by the shareholders' meeting of the group and holders of notes issued by SolarWorld AG in August 2013. Dr.-Ing. E. h. Frank Asbeck, CEO of SolarWorld AG: "In the next three months, we want to close negotiations with all creditors constructively and thus be able to build a good future for SolarWorld." -
22-5-2013
ReneSola Obtains JET Certification for Japan Market
May 22, 2013 - ReneSola Ltd today announced its Virtus I and Virtus II modules obtained JETPVm certification from the Japan Electrical and Environment Technology Laboratories ("JET"). -
22-5-2013Hareon Solar Introduces AC Modules in Australia
May 20, 2013 - Hareon Solar Technology Co. Ltd. (Hareon Solar) announced today that it will introduce Hareon AC modules at the Solar 2013 Conference and Expo in Melbourne. Hareon Solar teamed up with SolarBridge Technologies to develop fully integrated AC modules. -
22-5-2013
Sempra U.S. Gas & Power, Consolidated Edison Development Announce Solar Partnership
May 21, 2013 - Sempra U.S. Gas & Power and Consolidated Edison Development (ConEdison Development) today announced an agreement to partner in two of Sempra U.S. Gas & Power's solar power facilities, the 150-megawatt (MW) Copper Mountain Solar 2 plant near Las Vegas and the 150-MW Mesquite Solar 1 power plant near Phoenix.