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According to a report published by market intelligence company GlobalData, cost of solar energy is steadily coming closer to that of traditional energies. The report “Grid Parity for Wind and Solar Power - Future Outlook and Impact Analysis” describes that the increase in installed solar capacity will continue growing, as the US and China reach grid parity by 2017.
Norwegian manufacturer Innotech Solar has supplied a 3.1MW PV plant, located on a site of 80,000 square metres in Nauen nearby Berlin, with more than 13,000 solar modules, the company has announced.
The modules that Innotech Solar provided have a special feature: they are sourced from modules that have been sorted out for defects and that have been restored by Innotech using laser technology.
DelSolar today announced it has completed carbon footprint verification of its high performance solar cell (D6PL) and solar module (D6P_A3A series) products. The assessment met British Standard Institution’s ‘PAS 2050:2011 Product Carbon Footprint’ specifications and the verification received the Reasonable Level of Assurance, the highest level for this certification.
Sunways has announced that it has entered into a partnership with Solar Energy Australia (SEA) to distribute Sunways inverters in Australia. In the partnership, SEA is the exclusive distributer of Sunways inverters in Australia as well as provider of customer service.
The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has published the results of its latest feed-in tariff comprehensive review, effective August 1. Due to low deployment levels since April the government decided to push back the implementation of the tariffs by a month. The new rates for 4kW systems will be £0.16/kWh and the tariff reduced from 25 to 20 years.
Q-Cells and the Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) have completed an off-grid PV installation in the Abu Dhabi desert, in the United Arab Emirates, the company has announced. This rooftop installation is the first off-grid installation in UAE and generates 368kW. It is equipped with 1,536 Q-Cells multicrystalline PV modules.
Solar Capital Dear 3 (PTY), owned by the JV Moncada Energy Group, has been announced as the second tender for the state incentives under the IPP Procurement Program. The company has been awarded the incentive rate with a solar power project of 94.5MWp gross (75MW net) requiring an investment of €200 million. The South African incentive rate has a duration of twenty years and the irradiation rate of the selected areas is about 2000 hours per year.
A new 44MWp module assembly plant in the De Vernejoul industrial park in Porcelette, Eastern France will assemble SunPower’s Maxeon solar cells into modules to meet demand in France, Italy, Germany and Belgium. Total and SunPower said that its 3,300-square-metre plant is equipped to produce approximately 150,000 high efficiency (20% conversion efficiency) modules per year. This is the first such plant SunPower will operate in Europe, having the majority of its production in the Asia-Pacific region.
Conergy has announced the construction of a 10.5MW solar power plant – the largest of its kind in the Saarland region. To be built near the French border, the historic Linslerhof estate is owned by the von Boch investor family celebrated for its environmentally-friendly way of life. The recent drastic cuts to the feed-in tariff will require the project to be completed by the end of June. Conergy will act as main contractor and will be responsible for the installation of the park as well as the supply of Conergy components.
Solar Frontier and Showa Shell Sekiyu have announced a pilot project between Japan Cooporation Center, Petroleum (JCCP) and Takreer (an Abu Dhabi oil refining company). Takreer will be installaing PV systems at its facilities. The installations will generate a total of 36.4kW and they will be equipped with Solar Frontier thin-film modules and installed in four locations, including a rooftop.
