Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has sold a 15MW photovoltaic (PV) solar project to Southern Power and Turner Renewable Energy. ...
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Munich-based Solar Frontier Europe, a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – is supplying additional CIS PowerModules to ...
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Policy directives from the Chinese government continue to drive the country’s demand for photovoltaic (PV) systems. China’s National Energy Agency has recently increased the national PV installation target and expects an ...
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At this year’s SNEC tradeshow, many PV module manufacturers and PV system developers focused on prompting their solar projects. With optimistic outlook of demand for both ground-mounted and distributed generation projects, exhibitors ...
The MENA region is widely recognized as, and 2015’s first solar-related exhibition - World Future Energy Summit 2015 (WFES), will take place in Abu Dhabi on January 19. Lower costs for large-scale solar installations, strong solar ...
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Yingli Green Energy has announced that it completed grid connection for a 10 megawatt (MW) solar power plant in China's Hebei Province in late December 2014. The solar power plant is located in Fuping, a mountainous region in western ...
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Quarterly solar photovoltaic (PV) demand in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is forecast to reach the 10 gigawatt (GW) level for the first time in the fourth quarter of 2014. According to Solarbuzz, annual APAC PV demand in 2014 is forecast ...
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Total solar photovoltaic (PV) demand from the five leading Asia Pacific (APAC) markets – China, Japan, India, Australia and Thailand – is forecast to reach 17.2GW during the second half of 2014, almost 60% of global solar PV ...
The China National Energy Administration announced a new policy on September 4 aimed at bolstering the distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) market. “This new policy will loosen current regulations, which will give the market a needed ...
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Brazil's plan to auction 3.5GW of PV capacity through 2018 comes as welcome news for the global solar industry as the ambitious plan is expected to catalyze solar growth in Latin America, according to IHS. The Brazilian Electricity ...
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The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) announced on June 17 the withdrawal of FIT certifications for 144 solar plant facilities with capacities totaling 290MW. While there are 288 approved PV projects totaled at 1950MW ...
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Martifer Solar, a subsidiary of Martifer SGPS, has unveiled a new pipeline of 100 MW of solar PV projects in development in the United Kingdom. The company has shown tremendous success over the past few years as it has become a leading ...
US-based First Solar delivered on expectations in 2013 to become the leading engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company in the global photovoltaic (PV) industry, even though it is likely to be surpassed in 2014 by China-based ...
China has officially unveiled this year’s energy policies and will continue to develop renewable energy. To drive investment and demand to installations, the Chinese government implemented some feed-in tariff (FiT) programs and ...
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The UK is forecast to be the largest solar photovoltaic (PV) market in Europe in 2014, fuelled by the rapid growth in ground-mounted solar PV farms. More than 120 large-scale solar PV farms in the UK have recently received project-planning ...
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