Wind Speeds Substantially Higher in Western US in Q1 2011

3TIER’s Analysis Demonstrates Impact of Climate Anomalies 3TIER®, a global leader in renewable energy information services, today released a wind performance map for the first quarter of 2011. The map illustrates that wind speeds were above their seasonal averages for large areas across the western US. The rest of the country experienced slightly below average [...]

Vattenfall to sell parts of its Swedish engineering consultancy

  Vattenfall has agreed to sell parts of its Swedish engineering consultancy, Vattenfall Power Consultant AB to Pöyry PLC. The engineering consultancy, focusing on hydro power, wind power and power networks as well as thermal power, will be incorporated into a newly estab-lished company in Sweden to be called SwedPower AB. The divestment is part [...]

Phoenix Solar AG builds a 12 megawatt solar park, the company’s largest power plant ever outside Germany

First power plant project with KGAL in France   Phoenix Solar AG, a leading international photovoltaic system integrator listed on the German TecDAX (ISIN DE000A0BVU93), has signed an agreement on the turnkey construction of a solar park with a peak power of around 12 megawatts in France. Phoenix Solar AG was commissioned by a joint [...]

Canadian Solar Supplies More than 35,000 Solar Modules to EOSOL Energies Nouvelles and the Caisse des depots’ 8 MW French Solar Power Plant

Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ), one of the world’s largest solar companies, today announced that the Company has supplied 8 MW of solar modules to a solar power plant constructed by EOSOL Energies and the Caisse des depots et consignations in Villeneuve de Marsan, Aquitaine, France. The new solar power plant, inaugurated on April 18th [...]

SMA Canada Production Underway at Ontario Manufacturing Facility

  Ontario FiT-Compliant Residential, Commercial and Utility-Scale Solar Inverters Available Production of the SMA Sunny Boy and Sunny Central solar inverters is underway in Ontario. These residential, commercial and utility-scale devices are being assembled by Celestica, a global leader in the delivery of end-to-end product lifecycle solutions, to meet Ontario’s microFiT and FiT domestic content [...]

First Solar PV Modules Now Available for 10-30 kW Commercial Solar Power Systems

  First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) has recently announced the availability of its industry-leading, thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules for use in 10-30 kilowatt (kW) PV systems, effective immediately. Since its market debut in 2002, First Solar and its business partners have focused on commercial PV systems larger than 30 kW (DC). With the introduction of [...]

New Nordex N117/2400 turbine for light wind conditions will be made in the USA

• Outperforms other turbines by up to 20% • Highest yielding IEC 3 turbine in its class • Production to start in July 2012 at Arkansas plant   Nordex USA, Inc. will debut its new N117/2400 wind turbine for the US market at WINDPOWER in Anaheim, California from May 22-25, 2011. The latest addition to [...]