PV

First Solar sells 550 MW Desert Sunlight Solar Farm, among world's largest

Friday, 30 September 2011 REM First Solar, Inc. has completed the sale of one of the world's largest photovoltaic (PV) solar power projects — the 550-megawatt (AC) Desert Sunlight Solar Farm near Desert Center, California In the ...

Russia

2 GW PV potential touted ahead of conference

Friday, 30 September 2011 Dan McCue

Three weeks before a major high technology and solar energy conference in Moscow, a leading proponent for the sector says the installed capacity of solar PV arrays in Russia could reach 2 GW by 2020.

United Kingdom

Four of UK’s largest solar arrays go live

Wednesday, 28 September 2011 Toby Price This month sees the United Kingdom’s solar feed-in tariff bearing more fruits as four major new solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays come on line. Three were constructed by Isolux Corsán and are described ...

StratoSolar “kites” could already be producing grid-parity solar energy

Tuesday, 27 September 2011 Toby Price According to Ed Kelly, President of StratoSolar, his company's innovative solar photovoltaic (PV) kites “could already be making electricity cheaper than conventional power plants with today’s PV costs”. ...

Spain

Solaria signs a strategic agreement to expand its activity in Asia

Monday, 26 September 2011 REM Solaria Energía y Medio Ambiente, S.A., the only solar company listed on the Spanish stock market, has signed up an agreement with the Chinese company Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC) to "establish ...

Exhaustive worldwide solar installer survey kicks off

Monday, 26 September 2011 REM Currently the market research institute EuPD Research is carrying out the world’s largest installer survey in the field of photovoltaics (PV). During the survey, more than 750 installation companies ...

California governor revives solar incentive program

Friday, 23 September 2011 Dan McCue California Governor Jerry Brown in the US has authorized the use of nearly $200 million by the California Solar Initiative to support the installation of 3,000 MW of solar photovoltaic systems across the ...

India latest country to benefit from online solar planning tools

Thursday, 22 September 2011 Toby Price Solar photovoltaic developers in India, one of the most recent and potentially largest markets to join the solar revolution, can now better plan their arrays using SolarGIS, GeoModel Solar’s cutting-edge ...

Solar Frontier secures 30 MW deal in India

Wednesday, 21 September 2011 REM

Solar Frontier, the Japanese photovoltaic developer, has closed deals to supply copper indium selenide (CIS) solar modules with a combined capacity of 30MW for projects in India.

High-efficiency PV production focus of IPVEA at EU PVSEC

Wednesday, 21 September 2011 REM The PV Production Forum 2011 took place in the framework of the 26th European photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (26th EU PVSEC) in Hamburg (Germany) earlier this month, to examine the ...