Results for: solar

April 20 2015

Toshiba Starts Energy Supply Project Using Solar and Hydrogen

Toshiba has set up a system that includes solar panels and fuel cells at a facility in Kawasaki City in Kanagawa prefecture, the Tokyo-based company said in a statement Monday.

April 17 2015

BNEF Summit selects Finance for Resilience winners

Initiative will support the implementation of four winning ideas for financing clean energy London and New York – Four high-impact innovations to speed up the provision of finance for clean energy in developed and developing countries have been selected as Finance for Resilience (FiRe) winners for 2015, at the leading international conference on the future of […]

April 17 2015

Greenbacker Buys Two Florida Solar Projects for $4.15 Million

With the acquisition, Greenbacker now owns about 13 megawatts of solar capacity in the U.S. and Canada, David Sher, the company’s director, said Friday. The Florida power plants generate about 2 megawatts of electricity that’s sold to Gainesville Regional Utilities.

April 16 2015

New York Panel Installer Level Solar Sells $5 Million in Equity

The funding was disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday. The filing doesn’t name the investor and the company didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.

April 16 2015

ET Solar Agrees to Help Build 70-Megawatt Project in Philippines

The project is being co-developed with Gate Solar Philippines Corp., Nanjing-based ET Solar said Thursday in a statement. Terms weren’t disclosed.

April 16 2015

Duke to Build Solar Power Plant at North Carolina Marine Base

The solar project, which will span about 80 acres in Onslow County, is Duke’s first on a military base, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based company said Thursday in a statement. Terms weren’t disclosed.

April 16 2015

Southern Acquires 32-Megawatt California Plant From First Solar

The remaining stake in the Lost Hills-Blackwell facility will be held by a First Solar unit, Atlanta-based Southern said in a statement Thursday. Terms weren’t disclosed.

April 15 2015

Yieldcos Seen Surging to $100 Billion to Lower Clean-Power Costs

That’s almost quadruple the $27 billion in market value now, according to Jeff McDermott, a managing partner at Greentech Capital Advisors LLC, a New York-based investment bank that invests in yieldcos.

April 15 2015

Grid Power Will Survive Clean Energy Challenge, Stem CEO Says

“The grid-defection piece is overblown,” John Carrington, chief executive officer of Stem Inc., said Wednesday at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance conference in New York. “The model will change, but the utilities will always be there.”

April 15 2015

SPI Buying Rights to Develop 30 Megawatts of Solar in Japan

The purchase from China Reinsurance Group Corp. will allow SPI to build power plants in Kanagawa, Chiba, Ibaraki and Fukushima prefectures, beginning next month, the Shanghai-based developer said in a statement Wednesday. The solar farms are expected to be operating by the first quarter.