Gamesa Receives GL Certification for its G52-850 kW 60Hz Wind Turbine

    Designed for difficult sites, the turbine will allow Gamesa to better position itself in emerging wind markets in Central America, South America and East Asia Gamesa continues to make progress with GL on obtaining certification for its G10X-4.5 MW machine, a process which may culminate in late August 2011 Gamesa attends the EWEA [...]

El Dorado Elementary School Celebrates Activation of a 180 Kilowat New Solar Panel System

  (Los Angeles, CA) Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board Member Nury Martinez has recently joined students, parents, guardians, staff, members of the community and special guests for a solar celebration at El Dorado Elementary School. The event celebrated the recent activation of a 180 kilowatt (kW), 592 solar panel system on the school’s [...]

First Solar Breaks Ground On Four-line Photovoltaic Module Manufacturing Plant In Vietnam

New Factory to Add More Than 250MW in PV Manufacturing Capacity First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) has just officially broke ground on its four-line photovoltaic module manufacturing plant in the Dong Nam Industrial Park near Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh attended a ceremony at the site [...]

Alstom Upgrades its 3 MW ECO 100 Onshore Wind Turbine Platform

  Capacity factor increase of between 8-15 % across the wind classes Global leader in power generation equipment and services, Alstom, has recently announced the upgrade of its 3MW onshore ECO 100 platform. Alstom’s robust ECO 100 wind turbine platform, comprising the ECO 100 and ECO 110 turbines, is among the most proven multi-megawatt platforms [...]

KYOCERA Supplies Solar Modules for United States Marine Corps’ Largest PV Installation

Kyocera Solar, Inc. and the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southwest has recently announced the completion of a 1.4 megawatt (MW) solar electric system on the United States Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, just north of San Diego, Calif. NAVFAC Southwest celebrated the completion of the project with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, held on February 3. [...]

SolarWorld Taps Polycrystalline Technology to Expand U.S. Output of Industry-Leading Sunmodule™ Solar Panels

  Sunmodule™ Plus poly solar panels ranging to 240-watt-peak are available now SolarWorld’s premium-quality Sunmodule™ solar panels, manufactured in the USA using monocrystalline technology for more than 35 years, now also incorporate high-performance polycrystalline technology. SolarWorld factories in Oregon and California are producing polycrystalline solar panels featuring power densities of 230 and 240 watts peak. [...]

Suntech To Develop 10MW Solar Installation on the Roof of the World

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), the world’s largest producer of solar panels, announced it will develop a 10MW solar installation on the roof of the world that will generate decades of clean electricity for thousands of residents of the Tibetan Plateau. Located in Chek Kang village in the Sangri County, Shannan Prefecture, Tibet, [...]