French energy giant EDF Renewable Energy, owners of a portfolio containing over 5 GW of developed projects and 2.4 GW of installed capacity, have inaugurated their latest project, the 143 MW Catalina Solar project located near Kern County in California, US, the company’s largest utility-scale solar PV project currently installed. … [continued]
Citi and General Electric (GE) are advancing their renewable energy portfolios with a ray of sunshine. The financial and energy giants are part of a consortium including MetLife Inc., Mitsubishi UFJ, and Financial Group Inc. The consortium took a majority stake of the 143-megawatt (MW) Catalina solar project from … [continued]
Critics of solar and wind power often point out they are intermittent power sources, and they are correct about that. Cloudy and still days mean low or no energy and that is the major drawback of solar and wind power. However, new hybrid solar and wind power systems in … [continued]
2012 may well shape up as a pivotal year for CIGS thin film solar PV technology. Japan’s Solar Frontier, the world’s largest manufacturer of thin-film CIGS solar PV modules, has closed a deal to supply EDF Energies Nouvelles’ enXco with as much as 150-MWp of CIGS modules for use in the latter’s 100+ MW Catalina Solar Project in Kern County, California.
