First Solar Receives Recognition from Canadian Solar Industries Association

  First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) has been recognized by the Canadian Solar Industries Association (CanSIA) for developing and constructing Canada’s largest photovoltaic (PV) power plant. The 80 megawatt Sarnia solar project, completed this October in Sarnia, Ont., and purchased by Enbridge Inc., is also the largest operating PV facility in the world. Enbridge and [...]

Evergreen Solar Extends Materials & Workmanship Warranty to 10 Years

  Warranty doubles the existing 5 year warranty on ES-A and ES-E series panels. Evergreen Solar, Inc. (NasdaqGM: ESLR), a manufacturer of String Ribbon(R) solar panels with its proprietary silicon wafer technology, has recently announced it will extend its Materials & Workmanship Warranty on its ES-A and ES-E solar panels to 10 years. The new [...]

LDK Solar Reaches 3.0 GW Wafer Production Capacity

LDK Solar Co., Ltd. ("LDK Solar") (NYSE: LDK), a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers and PV products, has just announced that the Company reached the milestone of 3.0 gigawatts (GW) annualized capacity at its wafer plants. Mr. Xiaofeng Peng, Founder, Chairman and CEO hosted a ceremony to celebrate at the company’s facilities in Xinyu [...]

World’s Largest Solar Generation Plant: Abengoa Solar Closes a $1.45 Billion Loan

Loan proceeds will be used for the construction of Solana, the largest concentrating solar power plant in the world. The total investment will amount around $2 billion   Loan proceeds will be used for the construction of Solana, the largest concentrating solar power plant in the world. The total investment will amount around $2 billion [...]

Phoenix Solar AG Builds One of the World’s Largest Photovoltaic Power Plants on a Carport in Italy

Solar carport with a peak power of 5.9 megawatts Huge market potential in Europe Phoenix Solar AG, a leading international photovoltaic system integrator listed on the German TecDAX, is building a solar carport on behalf of "CIC PV Project Piadena KG der CIC Italia GmbH & Co." (CIC), a project company held by SOLARWATT PV [...]

Major Renewable Energy Events in 2011 – Part 1

EWEA 2011 – European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition 14 March 2011 – 17 March 2011 Organised by EWEA for the past 25 years, the EWEA Annual Event is the annual flag-ship event offers a unique opportunity to generate new business leads. Year after year, the EWEA Annual Event (formerly known as “EWEC”) keeps on [...]

Suzlon Group Crosses 15,000 MW in wind installations across the world

15,000 MW of cumulative installations; 10,500 turbines; covering over 1,800 customers across 25 countries Accounts for nearly nine per cent of the world’s total wind installations. Capacity can generate enough green energy to power more than 13 million households annually  Offsets ~27 million tonnes of CO2e annually, equivalent to planting ~1,275 million trees Suzlon Group, [...]