Results for: solar

December 15 2014

SunPower Backing Tendril, Licensing Energy-Management Technology

The technology will help San Jose, California-based SunPower monitor customers’ power consumption habits, according to a statement today.

December 12 2014

LDK Solar Agrees to Provide Panels for Power Project in China

LDK will begin delivering the panels immediately to Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Electric Power Design Institute, the Xinyu, China-based manufacturer said today in a statement. Terms weren’t disclosed.

December 12 2014

JinkoSolar Supplies 80 Megawatts for Project in Henan Province

The panels are being deployed on rooftops of agricultural greenhouses in Neihuang County, Shangrao, China-based JinkoSolar said today in a statement. They are expected to be connected to the grid by the end of the year. Terms weren’t disclosed.

December 10 2014

SoftBank, Mitsui to Build 43MW Solar Station in Central Japan

The plant in Shizuoka prefecture is slated to start operations by March 2017, SB Energy Corp. and Mitsui said in a statement today.

December 9 2014

U.S. Solar Jumps 41% With Home Systems Surpassing 300 Megawatts

Developers added 1,354 megawatts, the second-highest quarterly total ever, the Washington-based industry group said today in a report produced with GTM Research. A total of 16.1 gigawatts of photovoltaic systems are in operation in the U.S.

December 9 2014

Boeing, South African Air to Make Jet Fuel From Tobacco

The companies, along with SkyNRG and Sunchem SA, will use the nicotine-free Solaris variety of tobacco plant to make clean fuel that South African Airways will trial, they said in a joint statement. Test flights may begin next year.

December 9 2014

Boeing, South African Air to Make Jet Fuel From Tobacco

The companies, along with SkyNRG and Sunchem SA, will use the nicotine-free Solaris variety of tobacco plant to make clean fuel that South African Airways will test, they said in a joint statement. Test flights may begin next year.

December 8 2014

Takara Leben Developing 15MW Solar Plant on Former Golf Course

The 15-megawatt plant is under construction on the former golf course in Tochigi prefecture, Takara Leben said in a joint statement with Solar Frontier K.K. and Hitachi Zosen Corp. today.

December 8 2014

Obama Proposes Expanding China Solar-Cell Levy to New Suppliers

The plan calls for the U.S. Commerce Department to impose tariffs on all solar panels assembled in China, regardless of the source of their component cells. Currently, $1.5 billion worth of panels with cells made in China are subject to a duty, and many companies shifted production of the cells to other nations in response.

December 8 2014

Capital Power Buys Element Power to Add U.S. Wind, Solar Sites

Capital Power agreed to pay $69 million, including $52 million in assumed project financing debt, and will add 10 wind-and four solar-power sites with the acquisition, the Edmonton, Alberta-based company said in a statement Dec. 4. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year.