1. New plug-and-play solar modules from Wagan Tech. At the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Wagan Tech unvieled its new Solar e Power™ Cube 1500 and Solar e Power™ Case 450. More from the news release: According to Alex Hsu, Wagan Tech Vice President of Sales, the Solar e Power Series is expected … [continued]
Developer of an innovative distributed solar energy-smart grid system, New Jersey’s Petra Solar has struck up an alliance with Abu Dhabi solar energy project developer Enviromena Power Systems to develop integrated solar energy-smart grid systems across the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region.The announcement was made in Abu Dhabi, where renewable energy industry participants from around the globe are gathered for this week’s World Future Energy Summit.
“In a unique, first-of-its kind generation-to-manufacturing proposal, CPS Energy is entering into negotiations for a power purchase agreement from one of the nation’s largest solar projects,” CPS Energy wrote yesterday. “The project will mean new corporate headquarters and U.S. manufacturing operations for global companies in San Antonio.” The solar … [continued]
If you’re in the solar industry, or care much about it, I’m sure you’ve heard of the “solar trade war”/solar industry trade dispute going on right now. Basically, a handful of solar manufacturing companies from the U.S. and Germany (led by SolarWorld) contend that china is dumping its solar goods … [continued]
Microfinance provider Grameen Shakti’s efforts to bring affordable, distributed, clean and renewable solar PV electricity to rural Bangladeshis is proving a resounding success. Well over 500,000 of its Solar Home Systems are now up and running across rural Bangladesh, affording new opportunities to millions across the age spectrum, as well as significantly improving environmental and health and safety conditions.
California’s Imperial Valley is rich in solar and geothermal energy resources, but its drive to build itself into a clean, renewable energy hub is creating some controversy among the local community, which in large part has been built around agriculture. County commissioners on Tuesday approved LS Power’s application to build the Centinela 275-MW solar photovoltaic energy array on private farmland, bringing the debate, and tensions, to the fore.
It was another event-filled week of clean and renewable energy news. Among this week’s briefs and links: Chinese solar anti-dumping case moves forward, First Solar’s 550 MW DesertSolar project, offshore and trans-national grid flows hot topic at European Wind Energy Association’s annual conference, Madrid’s big smart grid project, Japan clean energy investment fund & more…
With 2011 winding down, both the Canadian solar and biofuels sectors are having their annual conferences within the next two weeks, to take stalk of the past year and move forward for 2012. The Canadian Solar Industry Association (CanSIA), coming off a proposal in October for the upcoming Canadian Federal … [continued]
It looks like NBA players are taking owners to federal court to try to get more money for their work. The result, of course, is that the NBA season may actually be cancelled, and there are a lot of job-less players. Well, Sungevity recently teamed up with a couple of … [continued]
Update: as this post by Christian Rolseund of Solar Server shows, operating margins vary greatly within the solar industry, and they have varied greatly this year due to falling demand from policy changes or policy uncertainty and oversupply — while some larger PV companies had operating margins of 10% … [continued]
