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Iowa's First Solar and Storage Power Plant goes live at the Maharishi University of Management
Maharishi University of Management's new solar power plant, designed and installed by Ideal Energy, Inc., powered up for the first time Mid-December. The cutting edge facility incorporates both single-axis tracking and vanadium-flow battery energy storage. Designed by Ideal Energy, Inc., it is the first system of its kind in the Midwest and among the most technologically advanced solar ...
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Dim Outlook: Solar Panel Manufacturing in the US Industry Market Research Report from IBISWorld has Been Updated
The Solar Panel Manufacturing industry has experienced a rapid rise and fall in the five years to 2013. “Government incentives for downstream customers fueled strong growth early in the period,” according to IBISWorld industry analyst David Yang. “Tax credits lowered the cost of solar panels for customers, making them more affordable for consumers and businesses.” But as ...
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The Principal Solar Institute Publishes White Paper Outlining Industry’s First and Only Independent Ratings System for Creating, Testing, Monitoring Solar PV Modules
Principal Solar, Inc (PSI; OTC Pink: PSWW), a publicly traded solar energy holding company executing a unique roll-up strategy to create the world's first distributed solar utility, today announced the release of “Solar Industry Goes Mainstream: New PV Module Rating System Empowers Solar Professionals,” authored by Ken Allen, Rick Borry, Dan Bedell, Kirk Blankenship and Matthew A. ...
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Greenam Energy breaks ground on India’s first floating PV plant
The project will be supplying electricity to Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation (SPIC) while the excess energy will be sold to the state power utilities. Greenam Energy Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore based AM International has recently celebrated the foundation laying ceremony meant for the construction of a 24 MW floating solar power plant. Sources reported ...
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8minute Solar Energy Expands Development Pipeline to 18 Gigawatts with New Solar-Plus-Storage Power Plants
8minute Solar Energy announced this week that the company has added 3 gigawatts of large-scale solar projects to its development pipeline this month, for a total of over 18 GW-enough to provide power for 20 million people. The company further announced it has attracted additional corporate-level funding to develop the rapidly growing pipeline, the majority of which will be converted to the ...
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8minute Solar Energy Expands Development Pipeline to 18 Gigawatts with New Solar-Plus-Storage Power Plants
New capital from joint venture partners will help accelerate clean, affordable and 24/7 reliable power for millions of households across the U.S. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA—April 23, 2020: 8minute Solar Energy (8minute) announced that the company has added 3 gigawatts (GW) of large-scale solar projects to its development pipeline this month, for a total of over 18 GW—enough to ...
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BluEarth Renewables to Purchase Four Utility-Scale Solar Power Plants From Canadian Solar
GUELPH, Ontario and CALGARY, Alberta, June 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ) (the "Company", or "Canadian Solar"), one of the world's largest solar power companies, today announced that its subsidiary, Canadian Solar Solutions Inc., has entered into a sales agreement with a BluEarth Renewables Inc. subsidiary ("BluEarth"), whereby BluEarth will acquire from ...
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Duke Energy Florida Announces 3 New Solar Power Plants to Complete 700-Megawatt Commitment
Duke Energy Florida recently (5/29) filed the locations of its three newest solar power plants, which will provide cleaner, smarter energy solutions to benefit Florida customers. - The Duette Solar Power Plant will be built on approximately 520 acres in Manatee County, Fla. Once operational, the 74.5-megawatt (MW) facility will consist of approximately 227,000 single-axis tracking solar ...
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First Solar Launches New Advanced Global Power Plant Operations Center
First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) today announced the launch of its new industry-leading global Operations Center, a centralized monitoring and control center where power plants in First Solar’s operations and maintenance (O&M) program can be monitored, operated and connected to utility and customer networks. The Operations Center combines First Solar’s power prediction and ...
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Making CSP viable – Solar Millennium explain the key to the future of the technology
The move towards CSP yield optimisation has a number of causes and a number of solutions – and the opportunity now exists to give the technology long-term viability. In the build-up to the CSP Yield Optimisation Europe Conference & Expo (31 May – 1 June, Seville), Solar Millennium explained to CSP Today exactly how the company is making optimisation a driving strategy for their ...
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Saint-Gobain Solar Invests in New Plant, the Company`s First in U.S.
Saint-Gobain announced today that construction work on Saint-Gobain Solar's mirror line for solar thermal power stations has begun. Located in Goodyear, Ariz., (near Phoenix), the plant will be Saint-Gobain Solar's first manufacturing facility in North America. The facility will supply primarily the domestic market and will eventually produce millions of square feet of solar mirrors for thermal ...
By Saint-Gobain
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Saint-Gobain Announces UL and CEC Listing for Versatile SG Solar Suneka® PV Module at Solar Power International 2011
Saint-Gobain (booth #4438) announces the availability of SG Solar Suneka®, a versatile aluminum-framed photovoltaic module from its subsidiary Saint-Gobain Solar. The new product, announced today at Solar Power International 2011 in Dallas, expands Saint-Gobain Solar's product offering in North America. Saint-Gobain Solar observed the industry's need for an adaptable, high-performance solar ...
By Saint-Gobain
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Leading Supplier of Utility-scale Solar Solutions Soitec to Exhibit at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi
Soitec will exhibit its high-efficiency concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solutions in the French pavilion (booth #8503) at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) 2013, coming January 15-17 to the National Exhibition Center in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Soitec commits to provide the Middle East with a full range of CPV solutions ranging from systems using the company's Concentrix™ ...
By Soitec
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Novatec Solar’s Fresnel collector generates superheated steam above 500°C
Novatec Solar’s Fresnel collector has successfully generated superheated steam at temperatures above 500°C at its 1.4 megawatt (MW) demonstration plant in Murcia, Spain, by implementing an innovative receiver design. “With this technical achievement, Novatec Solar takes a leading position in the development of high temperature CSP technology”, says Martin Selig, Head of ...
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Etrion Contracts Phoenix Solar to Build 2.6 MW Solar Power Plant
Etrion Corporation ("Etrion" or the "Company") (TSX: ETX)(OMX: ETX), an independent solar power producer, and Phoenix Solar AG ("Phoenix Solar"), a leading photovoltaic system integrator listed on the German TecDAX, today announced a new agreement to build a 2.6 MW solar power plant near Nettuno in the Lazio region of Italy. Etrion will own the power plant, and Phoenix Solar will design, ...
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