Roofs for rays, Toronto schools sign onto 66 MW solar scheme
Hundreds of schools will get a makeover up top as solar panels pay for roof repairs in an agreement between the Toronto schools and AMP Solar Limited Partnership.
Germanys PV future discussed
Leading photovoltaic managers met at the 2nd German Solarforum, held in Berlin on Monday May 31, to discuss the future of Germanys solar industry.
Q-Cells hits 19.5 percent solar cell efficiency
Q-Cells SE has achieved a polycrystalline solar cell efficiency of 19.5 percent. The results have been confirmed by the Fraunhofer ISE Institute for Solar Energy Systems, based in Freiburg, Germany.
Israel: 630 kW rooftop solar project completed
Conergy Greece has completed a 630 kilowatt peak rooftop solar installation in Israel. It is said to be one of the countrys largest.
Saudi Arabia: 500 kW solar plant to come online soon
The Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) and Showa Shell Sekiyu have signed an agreement on the operation of a solar power plant on Farasan Island in the Red Sea off Saudi Arabia. The project sets the stage for future development of solar in the Kingdom.
Germanys new EEG draft contains extra solar subsidy cuts
Next Monday, June 6, the Cabinet of the German federal government is to decide upon an additional cut in photovoltaic feed-in tariffs of six percent, to be introduced as of March 1, 2012.
Martifer Solar moves into India with 25 MW solar plant
Portuguese photovoltaic company Martifer Solar has announced it will work in India for the first time, with local firm Louroux Bio Energies Ltd., to install a solar plant worth 25 megawatts (MW).
China: Canadian Solar announces second manufacturing facility in Jiangsu Province
Canadian Solar announced today that it will build a 600 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic cell production factory in China, only one day after announcing its intention to build a 600 MW wafer manufacturing plant in the country.
Solar to become mainstream, but will experience growing pains
A new report has found that the Fukushima nuclear disaster will help to push solar energy into the mainstream, but that demand is currently not growing as fast as production. Furthermore, regulatory stability is needed in order to foster investor confidence. Overall, while there are long-term gains to be had, the interim will be difficult.
Canadian Solar and GCL to build up to 1.2 GW wafer plant
Canadian Solar Inc and GCL-Poly subsidiary Suzhou GCL Photovoltaic Technology Co., Ltd. are to build a 600 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic wafer manufacturing plant in China. The ability to expand capacity to 1.2 gigawatts (GW) will exist.
