Results for: solar

March 17 2015

Showa Shell Unit to Supply 100MW of Solar Panels to Welspun

A series of power purchase agreements has been signed between Welspun and several state governments in India, Welspun and Solar Frontier said in a statement Tuesday.

March 16 2015

Europe Carbon Trade Would Gain Extra $1.1 Billion From Biomass

The assumption that burning wood doesn’t mean more carbon because greenhouse gases are sucked up by growing trees ignores the effect of changes in land use, emissions from transporting the so-called biomass and unsustainable operations, said a report from the Transport & Environment campaign group, BirdLife Europe and the European Environmental Bureau.

March 16 2015

JA Solar Wins Another Order for Biggest Central America Project

The order follows a 59.7-megawatt shipment last year for the solar farm that will be the largest in Central America when finished, the Shanghai-based company said in a statement Monday. The customer and terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

March 16 2015

Renewables Infrastructure Group Raising Money for Clean Power

The fund is issuing shares at 102.25 pence apiece, it said Monday in an e-mailed statement. It declined to disclose how much it’s raising in total. The money will be used to enable it to “take advantage of its pipeline of attractive investment opportunities,” it said.

March 16 2015

Scatec Agrees on Egypt Solar Plant as Part of $300 Million Plan

The company agreed with Egypt’s New and Renewable Energy Authority to install a 50-megawatt plant under the government’s new system of feed-in tariffs that pay above-market rates to producers of clean energy, Scatec said Monday in an e-mailed statement.

March 16 2015

Stable Emissions Show Growth and Mitigation Possible, Envoy Says

Carbon-dioxide emissions were stable at 32.3 billion metric tons, even as the global economy advanced 3 percent, the International Energy Agency said in a statement on Friday. It was the first time that has happened amid economic growth in 40 years, the Paris-based agency said, citing preliminary estimates.

March 16 2015

JFE Unit Completes Construction of 26MW Solar Farm in Fukushima

The plant was built at a former golf course on behalf of Sunny Health Co., a Japanese health foods company, JFE Engineering Corp. said in a statement Monday.

March 13 2015

Abengoa Closes $660 Million in Financing for Africa Solar

The financing is for a 100-megawatt solar thermal plant it plans to build in Northern Cape Province. The Xina Solar One facility will cost $880 million in total and generate enough electricity for at least 95,000 homes, Abengoa said.

March 12 2015

Solar and Storage Top Requests for Renewable Projects, BNEF Says

Of 52 requests for proposals, or RFPs, that totaled 3.3 gigawatts of capacity, 27 were for solar and 12 were for energy-smart technologies including storage, according to a report from the London-based research firm. These requests are typically a strong indicator of industry trends, said Will Nelson, BNEF’s head of analysis.

March 12 2015

North American utilities and defense show appetite for energy storage and solar

Western states dominate in 2014 clean energy ‘requests for proposals’, with Alliant and the US armed forces featuring prominently New York, 12 March 2015 – A new study out today shows utility companies in North America zeroed in on two sectors last year: advanced energy storage and solar. Analysts at research firm Bloomberg New Energy […]