GCL Solar Energy and SolarReserve have agreed to enter into a joint venture towards the development, building and operation of solar PV facilities in the U.S. The joint venture, titled GCL-SR Solar Energy, has a 1,100MW portfolio of PV development projects, which range in size from 5MW to 20MW at 40 different sites across the United States. Construction is anticipated to start on up to 400MW of PV projects in the near future.
Greg Saunders is the newest executive to join Tioga Energy, being selected as the company’s new executive vice president and chief financial officer. Relying on his 25-year financial background with public and private companies, Saunders will manage the company’s financial development and impart strategic support as Tioga looks to expand its project portfolio.
The Philadelphia Eagles are setting their sights on another prize other than Super Bowl XLV trophy this year with their commitment to power Lincoln Financial Field with wind, solar and dual-fuel generated electricity. The team claims that this will be the world’s first major sports stadium to convert to self-generated renewable energy.
Day4 Energy has agreed to supply Orciano Ambiente, an Italian solar project developer, with Day4’s 60-MCI solarModules for a 1MW ground-mounted solar PV system in Orciano, Pisano, Italy. This will be the first ground-mounted PV system for the town and is expected to reach completion by December with full operations to begin in February 2011.
Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide will be issuing its first production series of solar roofs for its Fisker Karma electric car with the US$9.4 million production release it has received. The release will see Quantum work with Asola of Germany to begin volume production for the solar roofs during the early part of 2011. Quantum claims that this is the largest continuous and most highly curved solar roof for a passenger car.
HyperSolar’s development team has found that new design models are showing potential magnification of 300%. Using a thin and flat light magnification layer, thousands of small light collectors take the light into a light routing network, which then transmits the light to a smaller output area on the bottom where a solar cell can be attached. HyperSolar states that only one solar cell is needed under a 300% HyperSolar layer.
Day4 Energy has agreed to supply Orciano Ambiente, an Italian solar project developer, with Day4’s 60-MCI solarModules for a 1MW ground-mounted solar PV system in Orciano, Pisano, Italy. This will be the first ground-mounted PV system for the town and is expected to reach completion by December with full operations to begin in February 2011.
Lux Research has released a new report, “Module Cost Structure Breakdown: Can Thin-Film Survive the Crystalline Silicon Onslaught?”, which compares multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) with thin-film silicon (TF-Si), cadmium telluride (CdTe) and copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) on a US$/W basis in order to see which of the technologies will have a long-term cost advantage on the module level.
CPV company Solergy will be debuting its two chief products: Solergy CPV and Solergy Cogen CPV. The CPV systems use an all-glass optical concentrating lens, which Solergy claims, in combination with its tracking and basic energy unit is a system that generates a significant amount of energy in comparison to other PV and CPV products.
The U.S. Department of the Interior has given its approval to Solar Millennium for the construction of the Amargosa Farm Road Solar Project; the second large-scale solar energy project to be built on U.S. public land in Nevada. The 500MW facility will use concentrated solar power (CSP) technology, including two 250MW parabolic troughs dry-cooled power plants with the ability to store 4.5 hours of thermal energy.
