photovoltaic project News
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Prothea is successfully implementing the development of 3 solar photovoltaic projects totalling ca. 10MW in Central and Southern Italy
Prothea is successfully implementing the development of 3 solar photovoltaic projects totalling ca. 10MW in Central and Southern Italy.Prothea since October 2009 is implementing the development of 3 solar photovoltaic projects totalling ca. 10MW in Central and Southern Italy.Thanks to its community and environmental oriented approach, Prothea is developing in a timely manner the different ...
By Prothea srl
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LDK Solar Signs Three Multi-Year Photovoltaic Project Development Agreements
LDK Solar Co., Ltd. ("LDK Solar") (NYSE: LDK), a leading vertically integrated manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) products, today announced that the company has signed three multi-year engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) agreements. All three projects are located in the Gansu province of the People's Republic of China. The first project in Jiuquan City will consist of 200 megawatts ...
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reNEWS - Cero picks partners to deliver 100MW Greek PV project
Solar developer Cero Generation has selected Ameresco and Sunel Group as partners to deliver a 100MW solar photovoltaic (PV) project in Greece. The Delfini solar plant is expected to reach completion by the third quarter of 2023. As part of the project, Ameresco Sunel Energy, a joint company already established in Greece, will provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services the ...
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DECK Monitoring Partners With NREL to Track the Performance of Innovative Photovoltaic Projects
DECK Monitoring has partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to support its PV Data Acquisition (PVDAQ) project, which aims to develop and communicate a broad picture of photovoltaic (PV) field performance across the U.S. Data contributed to the PVDAQ project will be analyzed for many performance factors, the results of which are provided to the ...
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First Reserve private equity group buys European solar energy firms
First Reserve Corporation, the leading private equity firm specialising in the energy industry, has completed the acquisition of Gamesa Solar, the leading solar energy company in Spain, for a total consideration of €261 million. Together with the acquisition in Italy of Ener3,which has an established track record of designing and building photovoltaic power plants, First Reserve has created a ...
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South African PV market gears up for substantial growth
PV Insider reveals the important steps South Africa has taken to meet the targets for renewables in the 20-year master energy plan, the IRP In March 2011 the South African Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) was finalized, and after much debate surrounding the tender aimed at renewables, the clear winner was PV. The IRP proposed that renewables would equate to 42% of the new build generation ...
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Bosch Solar Energy Completes 1.9 Megawatt Project in Maui County
Bosch Solar Energy, a division of the Bosch Group, has completed the largest solar photovoltaic project in Maui County, Hawaii. The project will provide power for 11 sites with a combined system capacity of 1.9 megawatts (DC). The sites include four fire stations, two senior centers, the Lahaina police station, the Eddie Tam Community Center and the Kihei Aquatic Center. Two wastewater ...
By Robert Bosch
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Acciona and TSK to discuss challenges and successes of constructing Noor I CSP plant in Morocco at MENASOL
Acciona and TSK delegation to attend MENASOL (6-7 May, Dubai) and join a panel discussion on Morocco’s CSP industry and the lessons learnt on site in Ouarzazate The 160MW Noor I CSP project in Morocco has been under construction for almost a year and is expected to reach commercial operation in the second half of 2015. It is Morocco’s first concentrated solar power plant and is ...
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Royalla Solar Farm in ACT officially opened
Solar development company FRV Services Australia (FRV) commenced construction of its Royalla 20MW solar photovoltaic (PV) project located in the ACT in October 2013. FRV was the first applicant to be successful in the large-scale solar auction process run by the ACT government. Under the auction scheme the project will receive a Feed-in Tariff (FiT) for the electricity generated over a period of ...
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Cheaper Solar Power takes less Investment
Solar energy investment is set to fall in 2018 due to cutbacks in China and lower equipment costs, according to research from Bloomberg NEF. It said there would be a mixed picture for global clean energy investment in 2018 with dollar investment in solar under pressure, while commitments to wind power and energy smart technologies such as electric vehicles and batteries were running above last ...
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T-Solar Consolidates its International Expansion With New Photovoltaic Projects in the United States and Puerto Rico
Two new projects will contribute 100 GWh a year to the electricity grid upon coming online in 2H 2013 The T-Solar Group manages 283 MW under operation and construction in Spain, Italy, India, Peru, the USA and Puerto Rico The company has a further 400 MW under development The T-Solar Group, one of the major independent power producers in the solar photovoltaic electricity ...
By T-Solar
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First Solar Extends Workmanship Warranty to Ten Years
First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) today announced that it has extended its material and workmanship warranty from five to ten years. The announcement was made at the 2011 European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC), one of the world’s largest solar energy trade shows. The new warranty covers First Solar’s advanced Series 3 solar ...
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City of Hami in China to open its new 20MW solar plant
A concentrated photovoltaic project (CPV) of 20 megawatts in Hami, a city on the edge of the Gobi Desert in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, has secured a funding of 200 million yuan (about 32.7 million) from China Development Bank (CDB). This industrial size project, which the central driver of 3 MW initially was announced by Focusic and Soitec in 2011, is the first based on CPV technology to ...
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PG&E Tallies Renewable Energy Gains in 2011
Helping to meet California's environmental goals, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) added more than 220 megawatts of clean wind and solar power to its generation mix in 2011 and signed contracts for future delivery of 463 megawatts of new renewable power, enough to serve tens of thousands of customers, the company said today. "Our long-term commitment to renewable energy continued to ...
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Iberdrola Renewables Announces Solar Power Sale in Colorado
PORTLAND, Ore. - Iberdrola Renewables today announced a power purchase agreement for a solar power facility to be located near Alamosa in southern Colorado. Public Service Company of Colorado (PSCo), an Xcel Energy company, has agreed to purchase the entire output of a 30 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic project under development in the north end of Alamosa County, Colorado. Iberdrola ...
By Iberdrola
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Rosendin Electric Receives Photovoltaic Project of Distinction Award for Groundbreaking Arizona Western College Solar Project
Rosendin Electric (www.rosendin.com), one of the nation's largest private electrical contractors and a 100% employee-owned company, was awarded one of three PV Project of Distinction Awards presented by the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) for the design and construction of an innovative solar array at Arizona Western College in Yuma, ...
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RENAC’s Popular Green Energy Summer School Starts Again In-person in August
This August, RENAC will welcome participants back to the RENAC Training Centre in Berlin, Germany for the popular Green Energy Summer School (GESS). It will run from 22 August to 2 September 2022. There are two courses in this programme: Introduction to Renewable Energy Technologies and Management and Economics of Photovoltaic (PV) Projects. These courses are designed for individuals interested ...
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Abengoa signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Egypt to cooperate in the development of the national renewable energy industry
This MoU sets cooperation terms for the development of dispatchable solar power plants, in particular Solar Thermal Electricity (STE), in Egypt. Abengoa (MCE: ABG.B/P SM /NASDAQ: ABGB), the international company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainability in the energy and environmental sectors, signed today a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the New and Renewable ...
By Abengoa
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Plant Optimization Now Crucial for Large-scale CSP
The United States has emerged as a leader in the new global energy economy, with the development of super-scale CSP plants set to revolutionize energy markets in the US – recently announced figures show there is 10,989MW of capacity in development today, and with $ 4.85bn of co-financing mobilized CSP looks set to dominate the renewable energy market in the US. However, despite this ...
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Energy performance India vs. Spain: As the DNI values are similar, how is the energy yield?
Technical Top Tip courtesy of Suntrace Solar Resource Assessment 1. Comparison between India and Spain When it comes to solar irradiation in India, everyone would expect this to be better when compared to Spain, for example. With respect to the Global Horizontal Irradiation GHI, which is relevant for Photovoltaic (PV) projects, this is truly the case. In regard to Direct Normal Irradiation DNI, ...
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