solar energy installation News
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Success Story Putting Solar Energy Installation on Autopilot
On a bright, sunny morning, a team of machines settles in for a day of work. Their location: the construction site for a large-scale solar power plant. Their task: to install rows upon rows of solar panels, which will soon generate clean energy to power American homes, businesses, and communities. While that may sound like an excerpt of science fiction, Terabase Energy received a $1 million ...
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Canadian Solar Modules Installed in Pennsylvania`s Largest Solar Energy Installation
Canadian Solar Inc.(the "Company", "we" or "Canadian Solar") (NASDAQ: CSIQ), one of the world's largest solar companies, today announced its modules have been installed in a 5MW (AC) solar plant located in a dense agricultural area of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The environment-friendly solar project, dubbed Keystone, was developed by Community Energy Solar and constructed by groSolar. ...
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IKEA to Power-up Solar Energy Panels at Tejon, CA Distribution Center May 11
IKEA: WHAT: IKEA – the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, its solar installation partner REC Solar, Tejon Ranch and community leaders will officially ‘flip a switch’ to officially turn on the solar energy system installed atop the Swedish company’s Tejon distribution center in Kern ...
By REC Solar
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German solar pioneer Wagner Solar Inc. targets North America with award-winning products
Did you know you could use solar energy in Alaska? Wagner & Co, a German manufacturer of multi award-winning, high quality and efficient thermal collectors, takes the first steps into the North American market. The US subsidiary, Wagner Solar Inc’s introduced the first US solar thermal collector of the EURO collector line and was rated among the top 5 performers of almost 300 tested ...
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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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Best Solar Companies In Los Angeles Helps to Find Top Rated Residency Solar Installers
More and more homeowners are now on the lookout for cost-efficient solar companies Los Angeles or Bakersfield services as rapidly increasing monthly electricity bills are fast becoming a headache for many. Over the past few years, electricity prices have shot up drastically and they have already started impacting monthly financial budgets. Solar energy on the other hand is cheaper and ...
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GM’s Changwon Assembly Announces 3MW Solar Project
SOURCE: General Motors DESCRIPTION:CHANGWON, South Korea, December 10, 2012 /3BL Media/ – General Motors announced today that its Changwon Assembly plant, home of the brand new Chevrolet Spark and Spark EV, has reached an agreement with renewable energy company KC Cottrell to build a three-megawatt solar installation on the plant’s rooftop. When operational, it will provide the equivalent energy ...
By 3BL Media
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Bokpoort CSP hits supply record
Bokpoort CSP plant reaches record 161 hours of full-load operation ACWA Power’s Bokpoort CSP plant in South Africa’s Northern Cape Province has broken a record for the continuous, round-the-clock supply of electricity, ACWA announced on April 26. The newly inaugurated 50 MW plant produced electricity for 161 straight hours within the first month of its commercial operation. The ...
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The PVmet is now a standard for every SunEnergy1 installation
SunEnergy1, an engineering, procurement and construction company based in North Carolina, designs, builds and manages solar energy producing installations. With installations totaling tens of thousands of solar panels, SunEnergy1 has become one of our leading purchasers of the RainWise PVmet solar energy and environmental monitoring weather station. David Giles, Operations & Maintenance ...
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KYOCERA Solar Modules Tapped by Sierra Nevada to Power New Brewery in Mills River, NC
Solar installation makes energy-intensive brewing process sustainable Nearly everyone enjoys a good beer now and again. A delicious beer sustainably brewed with renewable energy that pours down from the sun might make that happy hour indulgence even more enjoyable. Kyocera Solar Inc. announced today that Sundance Power Systems Inc. has installed 650 kilowatts (DC) of high-quality Kyocera solar ...
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Procter & Gamble expands renewable energy portfolio
Procter & Gamble [NYSE: PG] today announces expansion of its renewable energy portfolio by unveiling a wind turbine at P&G's pet care plant in Coevorden, Netherlands and extending its commitment to solar energy with the installation of solar panels at its Beauty & Grooming plant in Cologne, Germany. The Coevorden turbine is the Company's first investment in wind energy and will be ...
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Energy experts call for consumer rights
Renewable energy experts H2 Eco in Dorset and YouGen, a national independent renewable energy website are calling on the government to ban ‘deal on the day’ for consumers. The call for increased protection comes following them being made aware of examples of pressurised selling practices taking place in people’s homes, and is also hot on the heels of the Office of Fair Trading ...
By H2ecO
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First Nation Solar Highlights
The students of the Amisk Community School will be learning from devices powered by the sun. The array is being installed in 2 separate phases in congruence with AISP funding. This groundbreaking First Nation solar project is one of the first to receive funding from the Alberta Indigenous Solar Program. It is a true testament of what a community can accomplish when they come together. Phase I, ...
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Four Sustainability Trends to Watch in 2012
CHICAGO, Dec. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The worldwide movement toward sustainability has made significant progress over the past half-dozen years as companies and cities have pursued strategies that balance future and current societal needs. Now, sustainable development is entering a new phase, characterized by greater alignment within and between the public and private ...
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Commissioner Piebalgs visits two state-of-the-art solar plants in southern Spain supported with EU-funds
Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has visited today two successful demonstration projects in the field of concentrating solar power and photovoltaics that the European Union has supported with its Research Programmes. The PS10 concentrated solar power and Sevilla PV, with a capacity of 11MW and 1.2MW, are located near the southern Spanish city of Seville and have benefited from €7,8 million ...
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Large Corporations Are Leading America’s Surge in Solar Deployment
America's top companies are investing in solar in record amounts, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association's brand new Solar Means Business 2017 report, which tracks on-site commercial solar installations and ranks top corporate solar users.This year's report contains data from over 4,000 companies, totaling more than 2.5 gigawatts of solar capacity across approximately 7,400 solar ...
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State policies key to clean energy development, report says
States’ policies are important to solar and wind energy development and in reducing energy use says a new report from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The findings are in report, State of the States 2010: The Role of Policy in Clean Energy Market Transformation. “This report shows the importance of the state and local policy in ...
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RWE commissions largest photovoltaic park in Hungary
In the middle of October RWE has officially commissioned the largest photovoltaics plant in Hungary. The 16 MW plant is located approximately 2 km from the town of Visonta, northeast of Budapest. The station comprises 72,480 solar modules with a nominal capacity of 255 watts each. In a sunny country like Hungary the plant will produce electricity from dawn to dusk on most days. Enough to supply ...
By RWE AG
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ProLogis renewable energy starts second tranche of 100-MW solar project with Southern California edison
ProLogis (NYSE: PLD), a leading global provider of distribution facilities, announced today the second phase of its 100-megawatt (MW) solar project with Southern California Edison (SCE), the largest electric utility in California, after signing new leases for roof space totaling 4.8 million square feet and a system totaling approximately 25 MW. As announced in May 2010, ProLogis signed a master ...
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Boulder County, Colorado to update solar energy code regulations
The Boulder County Planning Commission, Boulder County, Colorado, has been reported to consider proposing a Land Use Code (LDC) amendments for updating the county’s existing rules and regulations towards solar energy systems, allowing installation of solar systems on private and public properties in unincorporated lands in the county. According to The Land Use Department staff, the proposed ...
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