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 ...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Solar Energy
Yingli Green Energy Holding, a leading China-based PV module maker and PV system EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) contractor, expects operations to swing from continual losses since the second quarter of 2011 to profitability in ...
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Trina Solar Limited announced two of its PV power plants in the United Kingdom have successfully completed connection to the grid. The company is an investor in and sole project developer for these projects, which have a total capacity of ...
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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has announced completion of the 1.3MWDC solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant at Kitakyushu-shi. Powered by First Solar’s FS Series 3 Black ...
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Taiwan-based PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials on March 3 signed with a few local banks for a 7-year syndicated loan of JPY3.5 billion (US$34.3 million) for constructing a ground-mounted PV power-generating station with an ...
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ReneSola supplies Isolux Corsan with 31.7 megawatts of Virtus PV modules for a commercial PV project in the Suffolk. According to the terms of the agreement, ReneSola delivered 9.7 MW of Virtus I modules and 22 MW of Virtus II modules to ...
China's National Energy Administration has set a target total capacity of 10GWp for PV systems to be installed in China in 2014. The agency said 60% of the target capacity is for distributed PV systems and 40% for PV power-generating ...
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Rumors had it that ground-mounted solar power projects have become the mainstream in China after China released a series of policies regarding subsidy plans and grid-connection in 2013. Recently, more and more listed companies have ...
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Despite efforts from some US states to re-evaluate their net-energy metering (NEM) policies, the impact of any potential changes on the US photovoltaics (PV) industry is expected to be negligible in 2014, according to IHS. "States ...
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During the six-month period from April 1 through September 30, 2013, the global economy showed modest recovery trend, with the signs of bottoming out in Europe and continued increase in employment in U.S.. The Chinese economy by contrast, ...
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State-owned PetroVietnam plans to start up the first phase of its 1,200 MW coal-fired power Long Phu 1 project in December 2017, the company said Monday. Under this phase, a 600 MW unit will be started up and in the second phase another ...
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ASTM International (ASTM) the international industry standards group has published the E2939-13 Standard Practice for Determining Reporting Conditions and Expected Capacity for Photovoltaic (PV) Non-Concentrator Systems. This is a new ...
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Michael Lippert, of Saft Energy Storage Systems, explains how the SmartRegion Pellworm project will enable an island off the North Sea coast of Germany to increase self-consumption of its own renewable energy Pellworm Island presents a ...
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China is estimated to have added 10 gigawatts (GW) of installed photovoltaic (PV) power capacity in 2013, including 7 GW from PV power stations and 3 GW from distributed PV power projects, an energy official told Xinhua on Thursday. Liang ...
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Choosing and installing the right kind of overcurrent protection is becoming more important as projects increase in size and power, says Tony Garlinge-Warren, applications engineer at Eaton's Bussmann business. News that cumulative PV ...
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