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18 Oct 2012ENF Leverages LinkedIn to Enhance Company Directory
LinkedIn is one of the most popular business network tools in the solar industry – helping people to easily find the right people in a company to do business with. -
18 Oct 2012JFE Group Wins Order from Mitsui to Build 3 Solar Power Plants
JFE Holdings Inc. won an order from Mitsui & Co. and Tokio Marine Asset Management Co. to build three solar power plants in Japan through subsidiaries. -
18 Oct 2012
Grace Solar Reached 1.2MW Cooperation Project with American Customer
A few days ago, Xiamen Grace Solar Technology smoothly reached the rooftop PV grid station cooperation project with American customers. The project locates on the tile rooftop of an industrial plant, covering an area of about 8000 square meters. Grace Solar GS tile roof system solution will be applied to the whole project which with the installed capacity of 1.2MW. It is reported that this project will have two advantages: it can save 6%~8% of the electricity price, and keep it for about 25 years. -
18 Oct 2012Saint-Gobain Provides Technological and Industrial Expertise to the Development of Solar Energy in Saudi Arabia
Saint-Gobain, represented by Jean-Pierre Floris, Senior Vice-President and President of the Innovative Materials Sector has signed an M.O.U. with HRH Prince Faisal Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, to set up a high-tech company in the solar energy sector in Saudi Arabia. The signing ceremony was held in Torgau, Germany, where Saint-Gobain's Avancis affiliate operates one of the world's modern thin film Photovoltaic (PV) module plants. -
18 Oct 2012
Grace Solar Reached Megawatt Solar PV Project with Japanese Customers
In recent days, overseas visitors flocked to Xiamen Grace Solar. Today Japanese Customers come to visit Grace Solar as appointed and sign a contract with Grace Solar for a megawatt tin roof solar PV project. -
18 Oct 2012Sunways Supplies Solar Cells for Transparent PV Roof in the USA
Sunways AG has received its largest individual order for building-integrated photovoltaics to date: the Konstanz-based photovoltaics specialist is supplying semitransparent design solar cells for the new US head office of pharmaceutical company Novartis. The new construction in East Hanover, New Jersey, will see the installation of the largest transparent photovoltaic roof in the USA. Rafael Viñoly from New York designed an open and transparent office building for the company's oncology division. -
17 Oct 2012
BP Exits Solar Business in China
China TBEA Co Ltd said on Friday that BP Plc has transferred all its equity in two solar business joint ventures to the company at zero cost. -
17 Oct 2012
Solar Frontier Consolidates Capacity to Advanced Kunitomi Plant
Solar Frontier will suspend production at its 60MW "MP2" solar module manufacturing plant as its 900MW flagship Kunitomi plant continues to demonstrate improved performance. The company is evaluating the role MP2 will play in opportunities to produce specialized solar products currently in development. The Kunitomi plant commenced commercial production in February 2011 and all lines at the plant were operational by July 2011. The advanced plant now produces CIS solar modules with efficiencies in the 13-14% range, delivering more kilowatt-hours per Watt than competing technologies like crystalline silicon modules. Solar Frontier panels are designed to offer more reliable and lower cost of electricity than competing technologies like crystalline silicon panels. -
17 Oct 2012
Penn Energy Renewables, Canadian Solar Expand EPC Agreement
Canadian Solar Inc. today announced that its subsidiary, Canadian Solar Solutions Inc., has expanded its relationship with Penn Energy Renewables Ltd. ("Penn Energy") with an additional 10MW (AC) turnkey engineering, procurement and construction ("EPC") contract and operations and maintenance ("OM") agreement for the construction and operation of a solar power project in Ontario by Canadian Solar for Penn Energy. This latest agreement brings the total EPC and OM agreement between the two companies to 28.7MW (AC). Construction of the newest solar power plant will begin in the fourth quarter of 2012, with the facility expected to be fully operational by the third quarter of 2013. Construction on the previously announced solar power projects, representing 18.7MW (AC), is underway and expected to be fully operational by the summer of 2013. -
17 Oct 2012
PJB Services & First Solar Sign Agreement on Development of PV Plants in Indonesia
First Solar, Inc. and PT. Pembangkitan Jawa Bali Services (PJB Services) of Indonesia today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on the delivery of 100 megawatts (MW) of utility-scale solar power plants in Indonesia in order to address the growing energy demand in the country.