The kings of vertically-integrated US solar gobbled by French Oil!!
http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_17951380?nclick_check=1
Friday, April 29, 2011
French oil giant Total to buy majority stake in San Jose-based SunPower - SiliconValley.com
Finding PV's Next Big Cost Reductions | Renewable Energy News Article
Some very useful data on where cost improvement will be found.
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/03/finding-pvs-next-big-cost-reductions
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
FW: Bosch Solar Energy reaches record efficiency of silicon solar cellsADP News Renewable Energy TrackApril 19, 2011 Bosch Solar Energy AG (PINK:BSLRF), the solar energy division of the Bosch Group, announced on Monday it had achieved a degree of efficie
Bosch has announced plans for a plant in Ontario.
Bosch Solar Energy reaches record efficiency of silicon solar cellsADP News
Renewable Energy TrackApril 19, 2011 Bosch Solar Energy AG (PINK:BSLRF),
the solar energy division of the Bosch Group, announced on Monday it had
achieved a degree of efficiency of 19.6% for monocrystalline solar cells
with screen-printed metallisation in 156x156 mm format, which leads to a
record capacity of 4.73 Wp.The degree of efficiency reached by Bosch was
confirmed by the independent calibration laboratory at Fraunhofer Institute
for Solar Energy Systems.In general, silicon-based screen-printed solar
cells achieve efficiencies of between 17% and 18.5%.According to Bosch, the
altered cell concept improves the cell's performance under weak lighting
conditions.Bosch will be ready to launch serial production of the products
based on the new concept in one or two years, a spokeswoman for the company
told news agency DPA-AFX. Copyright 2011 AII Data Processing
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FW: First Solar Moves Into Small Commercial Installations
The kings of utility projects go searching for margins among the commercial
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04/20/2011 12:33 PM First Solar Moves Into Small Commercial
Installations SustainableBusiness.com News First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq:
FSLR) announced the availability of its thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules
for use in 10-30 kilowatt (kW) PV systems, effective immediately. Since its
market debut in 2002, First Solar and its business partners have focused on
commercial PV systems larger than 30 kW (DC). With the introduction of the
latest First Solar Series 3 modules, as well as increasing demand for
commercial systems below 30kW, First Solar says it's responding to customer
demand by serving this growing market segment. More than 3 gigawatts (GW)
of First Solar modules are already installed world-wide. About one-third are
installed in commercial rooftop systems. Typical 10-30kW PV systems
installed consist of 125-375 First Solar PV modules, requiring 90-270 square
meters of roof space. "Commercial rooftops in the 10-30kW range represent
a multi-gigawatt market globally," said TK Kallenbach, President of First
Solar's Components Business Group. "This expansion gives our customers
additional flexibility to serve smaller and medium-sized commercial and
industrial rooftops." First Solar does not sell directly to the public. A
list of business partners that are authorized to sell First Solar PV modules
as well as design, install, and sell systems using First Solar PV modules
can be found at the link below. Website:
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Photovoltaics reset button: $15.2B in equipment spending is on the line - Photovoltaics World
See market analysis. Very large jumps in capacity coming online all along the supply chain from ingot processing to machine tools to chip fabs. Dominated by Chinese public companies with fat balance sheets. Nowhere for pricing to go but down.
Gotta love those Chinese margin-shredders when you are on the buy-sideJ
Monday, April 18, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
GE To Build Nation's Largest Solar Power Manufacturing Plant
Cadmium Telluride thin-film technology drives First Solar's (US company)
world cost leadership. GE is not only taking them on, they are building the
first plant here in North America. If you play high up on the value chain
you can generate great domestic jobs for the future.
world cost leadership. GE is not only taking them on, they are building the
first plant here in North America. If you play high up on the value chain
you can generate great domestic jobs for the future.
GE To Build Nation's Largest Solar Power PlantManufacturing.Net - April
07, 2011 NEW YORK (AP) -- General Electric says it's going
to build the largest U.S. solar panel factory, part of a $600 million dollar
bet on the future of solar power in the country.The new plant will employ
400 people and produce enough solar panels to power 80,000 homes per year,
GE said Thursday. The company isn't saying where the plant will be located,
but it does say that there are multiple locations being scouted.GE says its
thin film solar panel has been certified as the most energy efficient of its
kind by the National Renewable Energy Lab in Colorado. The technology for
the panel, called CdTe thin film, lends itself to low-cost, large-scale
manufacturing.GE recently acquired PrimeStar Solar Inc. a maker of thin film
solar panels based in Colorado.
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Sharp to Begin Mass Production of New Single Crystalline Solar Cells with High Conversion Efficiency
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-Sharp to Begin Mass Production of New Single Crystalline Solar Cells with
High Conversion EfficiencyENP NewswireApril 4, 2011 ENP Newswire - 04 April
2011 Release date- 31032011 - Sharp Corporation will begin mass production
of new single crystalline solar cells with high conversion efficiency on
March 31, 2011 at its solar cell plant in GREEN FRONT SAKAI, located in
Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The mass production will cover
processes from solar cells to solar modules. These new single crystalline
solar cells with high conversion efficiency use a Back Contact structure
(electrodes connected to the back). This eliminates the need for electrodes
on the front and increases the light-receiving area on the front surface of
the cells. In addition, a new alignment technology (Alignment Sheet system)
reduces the connection resistance between adjacent cells and contributes to
increased power output. Sharp began research into solar cells in 1959 and
launched mass production in 1963. By the end of 2010, Sharp had reached 4.3
GW (gigawatts) of cumulative solar cell production volume. Sharp will
continue to further develop clean energy based on technologies built up over
the past five decades. Overview of the Production of Single Crystalline
Silicon Solar Cells with High Conversion Efficiency Location: Solar cell
plant, GREEN FRONT SAKAI Annual Production Capacity: 200 MW (megawatts)
Investment Amount: Approximately 15 billion yen Contact: SHARP ELECTRONICS
CORPORATION 1300 Naperville Drive Romeoville, IL 60446 U.S.A. Tel:
1-800-237-4277 Fax: 1-630-378-4246 [Editorial queries for this story should
be sent to newswire@enpublishing.co.uk ] Copyright 2011 Normans Media
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Innergex acquires of 27-MW PV project in Ontario ADP News Renewable Energy TrackApril 6, 2011 Canadian Innergex Renewable Energy (TSE:INE) said today it would further diversify its assets with the acquisition of a 27-MW solar photovoltaic (PV) project
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Subject: Innergex acquires of 27-MW PV project in OntarioADP News Renewable
Energy TrackApril 6, 2011 Canadian Innergex Renewable Energy (TSE:INE) said
today it would further diversify its assets with the acquisition of a 27-MW
solar photovoltaic (PV) project in
Innergex acquires of 27-MW PV project in OntarioADP News Renewable Energy
TrackApril 6, 2011 Canadian Innergex Renewable Energy (TSE:INE) said today
it would further diversify its assets with the acquisition of a 27-MW solar
photovoltaic (PV) project in Ontario from global solar power plants maker
Enfinity.The company has agreed to buy the Stardale project for CAD 11.1
million (USD 11.6m/EUR 8.1m). Enfinity will remain as the engineering,
procurement and construction contractor of the facility and take up its
operation and maintenance when completed.The construction of the
ground-mounted PV array system, located in the Russel county, started in
November 2010, with completion scheduled for February 2012. The facility
will include 144,060 polycrystalline PV modules and 54 inverters and will
produce around 39 GWh, enough to meet the needs of some 2,600 local
households. Output will be sold at a price of CAD 420 per MWh to the Ontario
Power Authority under three 20-year Renewable Energy Standard Offer Program
Contracts (RESOP).Innergex expects that the project will be accretive to
free cash flow per share from 2012 on. During the first full year of
operation, the facility is to bring CAD 15 million in earnings before
interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA).(CAD 1 = USD 1.042/EUR
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Chinese Sungrow opens new headquarters in Canada
April 6, 2011 Chinese photovoltaic (PV) inverters maker Sungrow Power Supply
Company Ltd has inaugurated its new Ontario-based headquarters managed by
Sungrow Canada Inc (SCI
Company Ltd has inaugurated its new Ontario-based headquarters managed by
Sungrow Canada Inc (SCI
Chinese Sungrow opens new headquarters in CanadaADP News Renewable Energy
TrackApril 6, 2011 Chinese photovoltaic (PV) inverters maker Sungrow Power
Supply Company Ltd has inaugurated its new Ontario-based headquarters
managed by Sungrow Canada Inc (SCI).SCI, a joint venture (JV) between the
Chinese company and local solar power-focused corporation HiFi Solar Energy
Ltd, possesses manufacturing, R&D and technical support capabilities. The
venture intends to invest CAD 10 million (USD 11m/EUR 7m) in Ontario in the
next few years. The first CAD 5 million will be spent on inverter assembling
and testing lines that will create up to 50 green jobs in its Vaughan
facility.SCI's facility, spanning 25,000 square feet (2,323 square metres),
has an annual production capacity of 200 MW of solar inverters. The first
models are 100 kW, 250 kW and 500 kW inverters.The ribbon-cutting ceremony,
held last Thursday, included a signing of a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) between SCI and PowerStream, Ontario's electricity distribution
company, to jointly promote solar power development.Founded in 1997, Sungrow
today has annual sales of nearly USD 100 million (EUR 70m). The company is
building a new facility in Hefei, China, and is targeting to reach 3 GW by
end-2012.(CAD 1.0 = USD 1.038/EUR 0.730)(USD 1.0 = EUR 0.703) Copyright
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Photovoltaics Wire News: Nanoparticles to help mop up more solar energy
See cost for football field of surface area.
Monday, April 4, 2011
SEIA: "Solar energy industry is the FASTEST GROWING INDUSTRY IN AMERICA!"
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SEIA President Rhone Resch Highlights Solar Industry's Tremendous Growth at
PV America Conference and Expo; "The solar energy industry is the FASTEST
GROWING INDUSTRY IN AMERICA! We are growing faster than wind energy, faster
than telecommunications, and, thank goodness, we are even growing faster
than the mortgage foreclosure industry!"PR NewswireApril 3, 2011
PHILADELPHIA, April 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Rhone Resch, president and CEO
of the Solar Energy Industries Association R (SEIAR) today addressed the PV
America Conference 2011 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in
Philadelphia to welcome solar professionals from around the country.Mr.
Resch's speech highlighted solar PV's tremendous growth in 2010, its
potential for 2011 and how the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast region is now the
largest market for PV in the United States. In total, 878 megawatts (MW) of
PV capacity was installed in 2010, more than doubling 2009 installation
totals. Read the full text of the speech here: Full Speech.Background
MaterialsGrowth of Solar Energy in the U.S.U.S. Solar Market Insight(TM)
Background Materials:Executive summary (free):
http://www.seia.org/galleries/pdf/SMI-YIR-2010-ES.pdf Details on the report:
http://www.seia.org/cs/research/SolarInsight Other Background
Materials:Solar industry PSA airing nationwide: http://seia.us/gy2i9GSolar
Generation Road Trip: www.solargenerationusa.org 2010 National Solar Jobs
Census: http://bit.ly/jobscensus Meet some of the faces of the solar
industry: http://www.solarworksforamerica.org U.S. Solar Energy Trade
Assessment 2010 report finds the U.S. is a net exporter of solar products:
http://seia.org/cs/news_detail?pressrelease.id=1144 SEIA Policy Issues:
http://www.seia.org/cs/solar_policies About SEIAR:Established in 1974, the
Solar Energy Industries AssociationR is the national trade association of
the U.S. solar energy industry. Through advocacy and education, SEIAR is
working to build a strong solar industry to power America. As the voice of
the industry, SEIAR works with its 1,000 member companies to make solar a
mainstream and significant energy source by expanding markets, removing
market barriers, strengthening the industry and educating the public on the
benefits of solar energy. www.seia.org SEIAR Online:SEIAR President & CEO
Rhone Resch is on Twitter. SEIAR is on YouTube and Facebook.
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Friday, April 1, 2011
FW: Tax Law Alert: IRS Issues Favorable Guidance Regarding Bonus Depreciation
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