A two megawatts photovoltaics farm is to be installed by SunWorks Solar Systems after the company signed a letter of intent to design, outlining plans for the solar energy project intended for central Florida.
By using high-grade materials for module production, Mage Solar has been able to expand the product and power guarantee of its modules to 10 years and 30 years respectively.
Enel SpA, the Italian power company, has announced that it will sell a 49% stake in its Green Power renewable unit; this move will be done in two stages.
E-Ton Solar Tech, the Taiwanese crystalline-silicon solar cell maker, has announced that it has raised NT$2.415 billion by issuing new shares at the price of NT$80.5 per share.
Messe Düsseldorf says that companies from the field of solar production technology, such as manufacturers of machinery, plants, components and materials for the production of solar end-products, can now register for "solarpeq - International Trade Fair for Solar Production Equipment."
Renewable Ventures, the Fotowatio company, has announced the completion of Solar Fund V to finance more than $200 million of new solar energy projects across the United States. The fund's first project is a 2MW solar PV project located in Ft. Collins, Colorado that will sell energy to Colorado State University and renewable energy credits to one of the state's utilities, Xcel Energy.
The joint venture between Centrosolar Group and Qimonda, known as Itarion Solar Lda, has announced that it has filed for insolvency. The negotiations for the Itarion Solar venture were cancelled following the insolvency of Qimonda in January 2009. Originally, a consortium of Portuguese industrial companies, banks and investment funds had been put together to take on Qimonda's interest in the venture, yet Centrosolar came to the conclusion that the direction taken by the negotiations now ruled out the success of the project.
Clark Energy Group has been chosen to develop a major solar power project at Fort Irwin, CA--the largest of its kind in U.S. Department of Defense history. Acciona Solar Power will join Clark Energy to help construct and manage the Fort Irwin Solar Energy EUL (enhanced use leasing) project.
Ryne P. Raffaelle has been named director of the National Center for Photovoltaics at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Most recently, he was academic director for the Golisano Institute for Sustainability and director of the NanoPower Research Laboratory at Rochester Institute of Technology (NY).
A new world record of 99.03 % for the efficiency of inverters used in photovoltaic systems has been set by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE. Key to the new record was using junction field-effect transistors (JFETs) made of silicon carbide (SiC) manufactured by SemiSouth Laboratories as well as improving the circuit technology used in the device.
