OERLIKON WINS LANDMARK ASIAN SOLAR ORDER
ZURICH, June 1 (Reuters) - Swiss engineer Oerlikon has won a first 100 million euro ($143.7 million) order for its new solar production line and may have more in the pipeline, a boost for its recovery from near bankruptcy last year.
This is the first order to install Oerlikon's new 120 megawatt line producing thin film silicon modules and comes from a new customer in Asia, Oerlikon said on Wednesday.
CANADIAN SOLAR TO BUILD 600 MW SOLAR CELL PLANT IN CHINA
June 1 (Reuters) - Canadian Solar Inc said it would build a 600 megawatt photovoltaic cell production factory in Suzhou in Eastern China, a day after the solar panel maker announced plans to set up a wafer plant in the same area.
The company said it would build the factory with state-owned enterprise Suzhou New District Economic Development Group Corp [SNDED.UL] and Suzhou Science and Technology City Development Co Ltd.
IBERIA SPOT POWER DOWN, WIND STRONGER THAN FORECAST
MADRID, June 1 (Reuters) - Stronger winds than expected hauled down benchmark Iberian wholesale power prices for the second day in a row on Wednesday by forcing costlier gas-burning generators off line.
National grid operator REE estimated that Spanish wind parks -- Europe's most productive in 2010 -- were producing 10,339 megawatts by mid-afternoon, above a peak of 9,000 MW forecast on Tuesday.
JAPAN TAKES CANADA TO WTO OVER GREEN-POWER RULES
GENEVA, June 1 (Reuters) - Japan asked the World Trade Organization on Wednesday to form a legal panel to decide whether
Canadian provincial backing for solar and wind energy projects gives an unfair advantage to domestic equipment makers.
Japan has given up direct attempts to resolve a spat over an Ontario scheme that guarantees prices for renewable energy as long as it is generated with Canadian-made equipment, Japan's ambassador to the WTO said in a letter to the chairman of the WTO's disputes division.
TIANJIN GRID OPERATOR WARNS OF POWER SHORTAGE, SAYS UHV LINES A SOLUTION
BEIJING, June 2 (Reuters) - Electricity shortfalls in Tianjin, an industrial city near Beijing, may reach 1.5 gigawatts this summer, or 13 percent of the expected maximum power load, local grid operator warned on Thursday.
Tianjin Electrical Power Corp, a unit of State Grid Corp of China (SGCC), the country's dominant power distributor, forecast the maximum power load in Tianjin of 11.4 GW to emerge in late July or early August.
WORLD SHOULD DOUBLE RENEWABLE ENERGY BY 2030-UN
OSLO, June 2 (Reuters) - The world should more than double reliance on renewable energy by 2030 as part of goals to slow climate change in a drive that will need strong backing from the private sector, a senior U.N. official said on Thursday.
"The new goal is to have 30 percent of energy supplies from renewable sources by 2030," Kandeh Yumkella, head of the U.N. Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), told Reuters in a telephone interview.
ISRAEL UNVEILS FIRST OF 50 SOLAR POWER FIELDS
JERUSAELM, June 5 (Reuters) - Israel's Arava Power unveiled the country's first commercial solar power plant on Sunday, showing it off to government ministers and dignitaries, and announced plans to erect dozens of other solar array fields, whose total cost could reach $2 billion.
The 100 million-shekel ($30 million), 4.95 megawatt plant in the agricultural community Kibbutz Keturah which is due to be hooked up to the national grid in the next few weeks, is the first of about 50 photovoltaic power fields that Arava said it will build throughout the southern Negev desert by the end of 2014.
ITALY SOLAR CAPACITY 9,000-10,000 MW END-2011
MILAN, June 6 (Reuters) - Italy's total grid-connected solar capacity is expected to rise to 9,000-10,000 megawatts at the end of 2011, the head of the European Photovoltaic Industry Association told Reuters on Monday.
Ingmar Wilhelm said that 2011 would be an exceptional peak year for solar capacity development in Italy, which should see an additional 6,500 megawatts of capacity.
No comments:
Post a Comment