Results for: solar

January 6 2015

Brazil Approves $9.6 Million Financing for Solar-Panel Factory

Pure Energy, a unit of the Brazilian builder Cerutti Engenharia, will use the funds for a plant in the northeastern state of Alagoas, Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico & Social said in an e-mailed statement today.

January 6 2015

GDF Suez Awarded Preferred Bidder Status for SAfrica Solar Plant

GDF will now be invited to enter into a 20-year power-purchase agreement for the 100-megawatt concentrated solar farm with state-owned Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., Courbevoie, France-based GDF said today on its website.

December 29 2014

TransCanada Buys $52 Million Ontario Plant From Canadian Solar

The Liskeard 1 plant uses Canadian Solar modules, the Guelph, Ontario-based company said today in a statement.

December 29 2014

Turkey’s changing power markets (in Chinese)

The Turkish government is pursuing an energy strategy involving a rapid expansion of coal-fired generation. This White Paper asks if a renewables-based strategy could pose a viable and cost-effective alternative.

December 23 2014

Japan May Spend 50 Billion Yen for Energy Storage, Yomiuri Says

The government plans to help utilities and solar power producers install systems as part of a supplementary budget for the fiscal year ending March 31, the paper reported yesterday, without saying where it got the information.

December 22 2014

Oil price plunge and clean energy – The real impact

The 45% fall in oil prices is being portrayed as a big blow to clean energy deployment. In fact, its impact will vary by sector and region, but will be modest in major electricity markets where renewables compete with gas and coal, and benefit from stable policy support London and New York, 22 December – […]

December 22 2014

Electric Cars Hurt Most in Renewables Industry From Oil’s Slump

The 45 percent plunge in Brent crude oil prices since the end of June also will slow the shift away from fossil fuels in oil producing nations such as Saudi Arabia and drive up the cost of natural gas in the U.S., Bloomberg New Energy Finance said.

December 22 2014

Kyocera Venture to Build 13.4 MW Floating Solar Plant in Japan

The station, to be built on a reservoir in Chiba prefecture, will be the world’s largest floating solar installation, the companies said in a statement today.

December 19 2014

Duke Buying 20-Megawatt Halifax Solar Project in North Carolina

The solar farm in Roanoke Rapids, built on the site of a decommissioned airport, began generating electricity this month, Charlotte, North Carolina-based Duke said today in a statement. Terms weren’t disclosed.

December 19 2014

Rame Energy Planning $6.4 Million Sun-Power Plant in Chile

The company plans initially to install a 2.5-megawatt ground-mounted facility expected to start working by the end of next year, it said today in an e-mailed statement. It may scale that to 17.5 megawatts.