MERKEL SUGGESTS CUTTING SOLAR SUBSIDIES FURTHER
MAGDEBURG, Germany, Oct 4 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday solar energy subsidies should be reduced, and it could make more sense in the future to draw solar energy from places like Greece, where the sun shined longer.
Merkel said that while wind energy seemed on track to becoming commercially viable in Germany, this did not seem the case for solar energy.
WESTINGHOUSE SOLAR FILES PATENT VIOLATION CASE
Oct 3 (Reuters) - Westinghouse Solar Inc said on Tuesday its rival Canadian Solar Inc infringed two of its solar panel patents and it was seeking to ban some products from being imported into the United States.
Westinghouse filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission, complaining that Canadian Solar and its supplier Zep Solar sold a product that used proprietary technology that was part of Westinghouse Solar's Andalay module.
SMALL CANADA PROVINCE FLEXES GREEN ENERGY MUSCLE
Oct 4 (Reuters) - Nova Scotia is a small, picturesque province on Canada's Atlantic Coast but its appetite for green energy is big and aggressive as it moves to wean itself away from coal, and wins plaudits for its efforts.
Last month, the province, Canada's second-smallest, unveiled the highest tariff in North America for developers of small wind energy projects as well as the highest in the world for small power plants driven by ocean tides.
SAUDI ARAMCO PLANS SOLAR CELL OUTPUT WITH SHOWA SHELL-NIKKEI
TOKYO, Oct 4 (Reuters) - The chief executive of state-run Saudi Aramco, Khalid Al-Falih, aims to begin production of solar cells in Saudi Arabia in two to three years in a joint venture with Japanese thin-film solar cell maker Showa Shell Sekiyu KK , Japan's Nikkei business daily said on Tuesday.
If Aramco can introduce Showa Shell's technology into Saudi Arabia, that would contribute a lot to the nation's main goal of industrial diversification, he was quoted as telling the newspaper in an interview.
BP TO BUILD $800 MLN KANSAS WIND FARM IN 2012
Oct 3 (Reuters) - BP Plc announced plans on Monday to build an $800 million wind farm in Kansas next year, providing a lift for the U.S. wind power industry as its outlook dims with the looming expiry of federal tax credits.
The 419-megawatt Flat Ridge 2 wind farm will include 262 General Electric turbines spinning about 43 miles (69 km) southwest of Wichita, BP said, in what will be the largest installation for both the state and BP Wind Energy.
TOHOKU ELECTRIC AIMS TO TRIPLE WIND POWER BY 2020
TOKYO, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Tohoku Electric Power Co said on Friday it aims to accept more than triple the capacity of wind power to its grid at 2 gigawatts by 2020 to meet needs to build wind farms in the region whose wind potential is among the highest in Japan.
The country's fragmented grid narrowly linked by 10 regionally dominant power utilities has limited ability to absorb massive capacity from such variable energy sources like solar and wind.
SOLARWORLD EXPECTS ANTI-DUMPING COMPLAINTS VS CHINA
FRANKFURT, Sept 30 (Reuters) - SolarWorld , Germany's No.2 solar player by sales, expects anti-dumping complaints to be filed against China's solar industry and would actively support such action, its chief executive said.
"Based on the facts, we think that such complaints will have to be filed," Asbeck said, adding he would "welcome" a U.S. trade complaint against China and anti-dumping penalties in the European Union.
IBERIA SPOT POWER EASES AGAIN ON STRONGER WINDS
MADRID, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Iberian wholesale power eased for the third straight day on Wednesday due to wind power rebounding from low levels although shortages of cheap hydro and nuclear power continued to bolster prices.
National grid operator REE predicted wind farms in Spain -- which accounts for about 85 percent of the Iberian Electricity Market (Mibel) -- were to raise output to as much as 4,733 megawatts on Thursday from 3,531 MW on Wednesday afternoon.
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