Funded by Verve Energy, GE Energy Financial Services and WA Government, 10-megawatt project will use First Solar PV modules First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), Verve Energy and GE (NYSE: GE) unit GE Energy Financial Services announced today that Australia’s first utility-scale solar power project is under way. Output from the 10-megawatt AC project on [...]

  centrotherm photovoltaics AG, the globally leading provider of technology and equipment to the photovoltaics sector, will bundle its Solar Cell & Module segment within a wholly-owned subsidiary in future. This forms part of the consistent strategic further development of the existing Group structure. "We are convinced that with this market-oriented organization that is strongly [...]

  IBERDROLA, the world leader in wind power, with over 13,000 MW of installed capacity in 23 countries The company applies for the preliminary permits from the German authorities to build the 400 megawatt (MW) Wikinger offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea The facility will have wind turbines of around 5 MW of capacity [...]

  Bayer Sheet Europe, Bischoff Glastechnik, and Thyssen Krupp integrate solar cells from Konarka Technologies into building facades – new connection technology from Lapp Group Konarka Technologies is starting as the first company world-wide to manufacture organic solar cells for building-integrated applications. In the consumer sector the innovative solar cells of the American manufacturer have [...]

Ionomer-Based DuPont™ PV5400 Series Encapsulant Helps Trim a Manufacturing Step Willard and Kelsey (W&K) Solar Group announces commercialization of their new "WK1-75" photovoltaic (PV) module using DuPont™ PV5400 Series encapsulant.  Designed for utility-scale clean energy projects, the new module incorporates a cost-effective cadmium-telluride (CdTe) thin-film power-generating layer, which is given extra protection by the new, [...]

Rotor blade production to start in 2012/Several hundred new jobs created Last Monday (22 August), a groundbreaking ceremony officially launched the construction work on ENERCON’s new rotor blade factory in Haren/Ems in Germany’s North-western region of Emsland. Local and State politicians, regional business representatives as well as ENERCON personnel attended the ceremony during which ENERCON [...]

Iberdrola has submitted an Environmental Statement to the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency as it seeks to achieve planning consent for the 400MW Wikinger offshore windfarm in the Baltic Sea, off the coast of Germany. An updated Environmental Statement has been submitted for fixed foundations rather than a floating turbine design, which had previously [...]