Personal Newsletter for Monty Bannerman | | from 07.12.2011 |
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North America |
Arizona Western College and Main Street Power announce completion of 5 MW PV project |
06.12.2011: US solar power financier Main Street Power Company Inc. announced the inauguration of a 5 MW solar project installed at Arizona Western College. The project consists of five 1 MW installations and is expected to provide 100 percent of the college's daytime electricity needs. Main Street Power developed the project in partnership with local utility Arizona Public Service (APS) and solar power project developer PPA Partners. The five installations include concentrator photovoltaic systems with dual-axis trackers from SolFocus and GreenVolts, Sharp Solar thin-film panels, SolarWorld monocrystalline panels, Suntech polycrystalline panels, SunEdison single-axis trackers and SatCon inverters. … Source: Main Street Power Inc.; Summary: PHOTON http://www.mainstreetpowerco.com The complete press release can be viewed in PHOTON's archive using the following link:
http://www.photon-international.com/newsletter/document/57812.pdf |
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North America |
Auditor general of Ontario publishes annual report, includes chapter on renewables |
06.12.2011: The office of the auditor general of Ontario has published its annual report in which it reports on value-for-money audits and reviews carried out over the last year. Chapter 3, section 3.03 of the report, which covers renewable energy initiatives, concludes that Ontario's solar policies have been successful in rapidly increasing the amount of renewable energy produced in the province, but wind and solar support policies add "significant additional costs" to ratepayers' electricity bills. The auditor general's report includes eight recommendations directed at the Ministry of Energy and the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) as well as those agencies responses to the recommendations. The eight recommendations focus mainly on encouraging the ministry and OPA to collaborate further, but they also provide the government agencies with ideas on how to reduce costs and directs them on how they should collect and distribute information aimed at policy makers, solar project developers and Ontario residents. … Source: Auditor General of Ontario; Summary: PHOTON http://www.auditor.on.ca/en/reports_2011_en.htm http://www.auditor.on.ca/en/reports_en/en11/303en11.pdf The complete press release can be viewed in PHOTON's archive using the following link:
http://www.photon-international.com/newsletter/document/57795.pdf |
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North America |
Canadian Ministry of Energy and OPA continue feed-in-tariff discussions at CanSIA conference |
06.12.2011: Discussions of the feed-in-tariff (FIT) review continued on Tuesday at the Canadian Solar Industries Association (CanSIA) conference in Toronto. Deputy Minister Fareed Amin, who is leading the review in close collaboration with the Ministry of Energy and the Ontario Power Authority (OPA), told PHOTON that, alongside a likely price reduction, the review is focusing on increasing transparency and predictability of the program. Ontario is considering a degression model to grant stakeholders, such as the many manufacturers that have brought operations to Ontario, more certainty. Meanwhile manufacturers continue to set up shop. On Tuesday, microinverter manufacturer Enecsys Ltd. and electronics manufacturer SMTC Corp. announced a partnership for SMTC to assemble microinverters at its Markham facility. Module manufacturers now setting up assembly in Ontario include Hanwha SolarOne, which has contracted capacity with Photowatt Ontario Inc. in Cambridge for products to hit the market in the first quarter of 2012, and Jinko Solar Co. Ltd., which is currently negotiating with contract manufacturers to set up between 70 and 90 MW of capacity next year. Source: PHOTON http://www.photon.info The complete press release can be viewed in PHOTON's archive using the following link:
http://www.photon-international.com/newsletter/document/57810.pdf |
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North America |
Eclipsall supplies PV modules for Ontario microFIT project |
06.12.2011: Canadian vertically integrated solar company Eclipsall Energy Corp. announced that its photovoltaic (PV) modules have been selected to be used in a microFIT project in northern Ontario. Ontario-based solar companies DBMS Energy Solutions and Strathcona Solar Initiatives are developing the roughly $2 million project, which will see 30 new microFIT systems installed in the town of Kapuskasing. In a separate release last week, Eclipsall announced a long-term distribution agreement with Ontario-based PV distributor Sentinel Solar that will establish Sentinel as the largest distributor of Eclipsall products in Ontario. … Source: Eclipsall Energy Corp.; Summary: PHOTON http://www.eclipsall.com http://www.eclipsall.com/news-events/news.php The complete press release can be viewed in PHOTON's archive using the following link:
http://www.photon-international.com/newsletter/document/57790.pdf |
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North America |
Ikea expands rooftop solar program |
06.12.2011: Home furnishings retailer Ikea announced that it has expanded its rooftop photovoltaic (PV) program to cover 75 percent of its US locations. The expansion will see a total of 10.7 MW installed on a distribution center and on nine Ikea stores in the south. The 10 new projects, which are expected to be completed in summer 2012, will bring Ikea's total installed PV capacity to 26.8 MW. REC Solar will manage the six Florida and Texas installations, while Gehrlicher Solar America Corp. will develop the four projects in Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. … Source: Ikea; Summary: PHOTON http://www.ikea.com The complete press release can be viewed in PHOTON's archive using the following link:
http://www.photon-international.com/newsletter/document/57808.pdf |
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Europe / Americas |
Opel CPV modules now availble in southern Europe and Latin America |
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North America |
Tioga and Chevron complete 1.2 MW PV installation on closed landfill in California |
06.12.2011: Chevron Corporation's solar energy subsidiary Chevron Energy Solutions and US solar power company Tioga Energy have completed construction of a 1.15 MW solar park for the city of Dinuba, California. The ground-mounted solar park, which was installed on a capped landfill near the city's wastewater treatment plant, is expected to produce about 70 percent of the electricity used at the wastewater plant. Tioga energy will own and operate the installation and will sell electricity generated by the plant to the city of Dinuba through Tioga's SurePath Solar Power Purchase Agreement program. … Source: Tioga Energy; Summary: PHOTON http://www.tiogaenergy.com http://tiogaenergy.com/tioga-press-release-dinuba-goes-solar-at-wastew
ater-plant.php The complete press release can be viewed in PHOTON's archive using the following link:
http://www.photon-international.com/newsletter/document/57806.pdf |
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Europe |
Castello SGR buys 8 solar parks from Energheia Italia, orders more |
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Europe |
Enel Green Power installs 5 MW solar park in Sicily |
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North America |
OSM Solarform agrees to produce LDK Solar PV modules in Ontario |
06.12.2011: Canadian photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer OSM Solarform Corp. has signed a production agreement with Chinese vertically integrated solar company LDK Solar under which OSM will produce 20 MW of LDK PV modules at its factory in Ontario. The two companies also signed a non-exclusive distribution agreement that will allow OSM to manufacture and distribute LDK modules. The LDK modules produced at OSM's Ontario factory will meet the domestic content requirements mandated by Ontario's feed-in-tariff program. LDK signed a similar production agreement with Canadian producer Lumin Solar Inc. … Source: OSM Solar Corp.; Summary: PHOTON http://www.osmsolar.com http://osmsolar.com/newsview.html?article_num=54 The complete press release can be viewed in PHOTON's archive using the following link:
http://www.photon-international.com/newsletter/document/57733.pdf |
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Australia |
Australia has over 1 GW of installed rooftop PV capacity |
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Worldwide |
New report advises governments to reform support policies for renewable energy |
06.12.2011: A new report published by the Clean Energy Group advises governments to consider supporting renewable energy projects as part of their economic development strategy, rather than as an environmental strategy with the secondary benefits of job creation. Strategies To Finance Large-Scale Deployment Of Renewable Energy Projects: An Economic Development And Infrastructure Approach, which was commissioned by the International Energy Agency's (IEA) Renewable Energy Technology Deployment program, says that new renewable energy policies that reduce the risk-to-reward ratio must be introduced to encourage the private sector to invest more in large-scale renewable energy projects. … Source: Clean Energy Group; Summary: PHOTON http://www.iea.org http://iea-retd.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/111205-FINANCE-RE-Final
-Report.pdf The complete press release can be viewed in PHOTON's archive using the following link:
http://www.photon-international.com/newsletter/document/57811.pdf |
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Europe |
Schott Solar and Stadtwerke Mainz expect to complete 5.6 MW solar park by the end of 2011 |
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Europe |
Urbasolar inaugurates the largest rooftop PV installation in the southwest of France |
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Europe |
Roth & Rau produces heterojunction solar cells with 21 percent efficiency |
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Europe |
Soltecture introduces new CIGS thin-film modules with 13.4 percent efficiency |
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Worldwide |
Global PV inverter revenues decline |
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Europe |
Enphase microinverters now available in France and Benelux |
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Europe |
Hertel retires from the managing board of SMA |
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Europe |
Q-Cells appoints ex-Solyndra executive as head of global sales |
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