Canadian Solar and GCL Announce Major Solar Joint-Venture; Companies to Build Wafer Plant

Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ), and Suzhou GCL Photovoltaic Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Limited ("GCL", stock code: 3800.HK), today announced a major solar joint-venture to build a 600 MW capacity wafer plant in Suzhou dedicated to Canadian Solar’s requirements. The initial 600 MW can be expanded to 1.2 GW. The [...]

SANYO’s Kasai Green Energy Park Wins Good Lighting Award

Highly appraised for its cutting-edge eco-friendly lighting and lithium-ion solar streetlights! SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (SANYO) has recently announced that SANYO’s Kasai Green Energy Park, a next-generation eco-friendly facility equipped with the Panasonic Group’s cutting-edge green technology, won the “Good Lighting Award” produced by the Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan.   The “Good Lighting Award” [...]

aleo solar module passes most stringent salt spray test

also solar AG [ISIN: DE000A0JM634] has recently announced that its aleo S_18 module has passed the salt spray test. On 8 April 2011, aleo solar AG was granted the certificate by the Swiss certification body SGS Société Générale de Surveillance SA. The salt spray test is a completely voluntary quality test. Certification from this independent [...]

RWE Innogy sets up joint venture to develop hydropower plants in Serbia

  Strategic partnership with Serbian energy utility EPS Development of 150 MW of hydropower RWE Innogy and the Serbian energy utility Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) formed a joint venture for the development of hydropower plants in Belgrade. The contracts were signed on Wednesday in the presence of the Serbian Prime Minister and the Energy Minister. In [...]

Nordex wins 49.5 MW project in China

Delivery of 33 turbines planned for summer 2011 Hamburg, 24 May 2011. Nordex is continuing its long-standing business partnership with Ningxia Electric Power: the Chinese power supplier has now ordered 33 S82/1500 machines for its “Niushoushan I” and “Niushoushan II” wind farms, thus increasing its Nordex portfolio to more than 250 MW. The “Niushoushan” projects [...]

Phoenix Solar AG inaugurates two solar parks with a total peak power of 18 megawatts

  Anita Tack, Brandenburg’s Environment Minister, opens the ceremony for the inauguration of the Jocksdorf and Preschen solar parks Former military air base in Neiße-Malxetal is put to commercial use Phoenix Solar AG celebrated the inauguration of two solar parks in Jocksdorf und Preschen, together with its financing partner KGAL GmbH & Co. KG, on [...]

SOLON Builds Solar Power Plant on Former Site of Military Air Station in Great Britain

  SOLON, a leading European photovoltaic module manufacturer and system provider, has been appointed by Rockspring Property Investment Managers to construct and deliver a turnkey solar park on the site of a former RAF airfield at Westcott Venture Park, Buckinghamshire. The site is expected to be one of the few large scale solar arrays to [...]