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Infocast`s 4th Annual Utility Scale Solar Summit 2011 Returns
Infocast's 4th Annual Utility Scale Solar Summit will take place from September 13-15, 2011 at the Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego, CA and the timing can't be better! The utility solar electric markets are on fire and continue to expand quickly nationwide, with the top utilities driving the bulk of the growth. With this backdrop of rapid expansion, the Summit's timing is impeccable and provides ...
By Infocast
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Global PV market to benefit from further growth as solar industry faces consolidation
The world solar PV market is heading towards further, exponential growth and will be profoundly altered by a further, substantial decline in module prices and a boom in internal Chinese demand. As regards production, on the other hand, a period of consolidation has started at a global level, with the expectation that weaker industrial players will exit the market. This will be the economic ...
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Yingli Green Energy Calls on the European Commission to Halt Protectionism
Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) ("Yingli Green Energy" or the "Company"), a leading solar energy company and one of the world's largest vertically integrated photovoltaic ("PV") manufacturers, which markets its products under the brand "Yingli Solar" states that the anti-dumping complaint filed at the European Commission in July this year is unfounded. Today, the ...
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Solar and Electric Vehicle Cross-Marketing Strategies
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Solar and Electric Vehicle Cross-Marketing Strategies http://www.reportlinker.com/p01154136/Solar-and-Electric-Vehicle-Cross-Marketing-Strategies.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Clean_Vehicle The number of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on roadways will grow rapidly to ...
By ReportLinker
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Soltage Deploys 31 MW Multistate Community Solar and Utility-scale Solar Portfolio
Soltage LLC, a leading independent power producer, this week announced an investment by Soltage's Iris capital vehicle with Harrison Street in a 31 megawatt portfolio of five solar projects located in South Carolina and Illinois. The portfolio consists of one project in Illinois and four projects in South Carolina. The electricity generated from these projects will be sold to municipal, ...
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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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Affordability of Solar Photovoltaic Systems Accelerate their Uptake, Finds Frost & Sullivan
Solar photovoltaic (PV) will hold its spot as the fastest growing technology in the U.S. energy industry for the next four years. The prices of solar modules have been in a free fall since 2008, accelerating PV systems' commercialization, while encouraging the development of new financing models for the residential sector. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan's Analysis of the U.S. Residential ...
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ViSole Energy Announces New Chief Executive Officer Len Jornlin
ViSole Energy announced today that Len Jornlin, Founder & CEO of Empower Energies LLC and a former senior executive at SunEdison LLC, is joining the company as Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. Mr. Jornlin replaces Abe Morris, who will become Vice Chairman of the ViSole Energy Board of Directors. "We are extremely excited to have Len join ViSole Energy and lead it in its ...
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Lightway Solar America Executes 16.6 MW Supply Agreement with Premier Power
Lightway Solar America, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Lightway Green New Energy Co., Ltd., has announced the execution of a 16.6 megawatt Supply Agreement with Premier Power Renewable Energy, Inc. Lightway is scheduled to begin delivery of solar panels from Q4 2012 throughout 2013 for projects developed by Premier Power in both the U.S. and European markets. Lightway Solar America has made ...
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New report: Strengthening America’s “Electric Highway” will Fast-Track U.S. Economic Growth
The United States urgently needs a 21st Century update of its aging power grid and the solution, well-planned transmission investment, will more than pay for itself according to a new report released recently by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). Grid Vision: The Electric Highway to a 21st Century Economy outlines why an interconnected, modern transmission grid is more important than ...
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First Solar Announces 380 Megawatt Increase in Orders for 2011
TEMPE, Ariz. - First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) today announced that it has signed agreements with seven key customers for a 380 megawatt increase in orders for 2011 over previously announced volumes. The expanded contracts are with existing customers and will serve predominantly European markets. “Our customers continue to expect robust growth in the market for solar electricity in Europe ...
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Solar is crowned “king of the world’s electricity markets” in new IEA report
Today the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its flagship World Energy Outlook 2020, modelling different growth scenarios for the future global energy system. Central to the report is the revelation that solar offers the “cheapest electricity in history”, leading Executive Director of the IEA, Dr Fatih Birol, to note that “solar [is] becoming the new king of the ...
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From solar energy to electricity: a growing BIPV market with great potential
The Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) market is a growing sector in the environmental search for continued energy-saving building materials. Already a segment of the expanding Photovoltaics (PV) market, BIPV is becoming a popular way to use solar energy to generate electricity. In 2007 the PV market raked in approximately €6.24 billion, with a growth rate of 46%. As a part of that growing ...
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Pure energies and SMA America sign 17 megawatt supply agreement for Ontario solar market
Pure energies, an Ontario-based turnkey solar electricity facilitator with a unique market channel for residential solar systems has announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with SMA America, LLC outlining the supply of 17 MW of solar inverters in 2010, with a target goal of 50 MW over the next three years. The supply partnership will allow Pure energies to provide Ontario consumers with ...
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Solar Power 2006 Set to Showcase California Clean Tech Open Entrepreneurs Finalists
(SAN JOSE, CA) - Finalists for the California Clean Tech Open’s Renewable Energy Prize will present their innovations at Solar Power 2006, the largest business-to-business solar conference and expo in the United States. The California Clean Tech Open finalists were selected by an elite panel of Silicon Valley venture capitalists, clean tech executives, and domain experts, and will compete for ...
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Global Annual Solar Installations Expected to Generate More than $259 Billion by 2027
A new report from Navigant Research analyzes the global market for distributed and non-distributed solar photovoltaics (PV), providing forecasts broken out by country, region, and segment, through 2027.According to the report, annual global SPV capacity additions increased from around 74.5 GW in 2016 to 98.4 GW in 2017. The global SPV market in 2017 generated $141.6 billion in 2017, about $59.3 ...
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MyGen U.S.-Made Solar Energy Kits by KYOCERA Offer Expanded Domestically Produced Content
Kyocera Solar, Inc. today announced that MyGen U.S.-Made Kits — domestically produced, all-inclusive kits for residential and light commercial solar energy installations — are available now. The MyGen solar energy kits are ideal for new entrants into the solar market and professionals in the electrical contractor industry interested in expanding into solar ...
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First Solar Appoints Jim Brown President, Global Business Development
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) today announced it will consolidate its worldwide sales and project development activities under Jim Brown, who has been appointed to the new role of President, Global Business Development. The move combines First Solar’s Utility Systems Business Group and Components Business Group under a unified global structure ...
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Solar Powers $1.1 Billion US VC Investment in Cleantech in Q2 2011
US venture capital (VC) investment in cleantech companies decreased by 44% to $1.1 billion in Q2 2011 compared to Q2 2010, while deals fell 12% to 68, according to an Ernst & Young LLP analysis based on data from Dow Jones VentureSource. The decline in cleantech investment in Q2 2011 comes in comparison to the $1.9 billion invested in Q2 2010 — the highest level of quarterly VC ...
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Smart Energy City Project: An Australian Perspective to a Large DER Intensive Microgrid
By Giovanni Polizzi, Energy Solutions Manager, Minsait (an Indra company); and Tony Fullelove, Monash UniversityIndra and Monash University are collaborating to develop, implement and test a distribution management platform across the Clayton campus of the Monash University in Victoria, to control a grid-connected Microgrid comprising a variety of distributed energy resources (DER).The Net Zero ...
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