Syanne Olson

On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), KfW Entwicklungsbank, has signed a €10 million (US$13 million) loan guarantee with Brazil’s Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais (CEMIG) for the Solar World Cup 2014 project.

Solar module manufacturer Silevo appointed Aaron Thurlow as its Vice-President of sales and marketing, a position that will see him manage the market expansion for the company’s Triex technology.

PV module manufacturer Kyocera Solar’s North American facilities have exceeded the two million mark in the production of photovoltaic modules.

Photovoltaic solutions company Scheuten Solar has completed a solar power system for supermarket Lidl in Weert, the Netherlands.

Renewable developer Sempra US Gas & Power has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with the California cities of Los Angeles and Burbank.

Trina Solar’s PV modules have passed testing and been certified for salt mist, sand blast and for reaching PID requirements by TUV Nord, PVEL and SGS.

Wacker Chemie, a Munich-based manufacturer of solar products, will see its current executive board member and personnel director, Wilhelm Sittenthaler, step down on 31 December 2012.

Bifacial and holographic bifacial solar module producer Prism Solar Technologies has received UL 1703, ULC/ORD-C1703-1 and California Energy Commission (CEC) certifications via product safety certification organisation Intertek.

Ralf Lüdemann has been appointed as the new lead for Schmid’s energy storage business unit, and will play a key role as advisor to the photovoltaic (PV) related business units.

Alfa Laval, a heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling company, has been tapped by Abengoa to deliver its Packinox heat exchangers for a concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in South Africa.