Solar photovoltaic energy project taps Siemens for EPC services

May 31,2011 –Siemens Energy Inc. (NYSE: SI) has been selected by Syn­car­pha Cap­i­tal to pro­vide engi­neer­ing, pro­cure­ment and con­struc­tion ser­vices for a 3 MW-peak, ground-based PV power plant in East­amp­ton, New Jersey.….

Vermont Enacts First US Solar Registration Policy

The state of Ver­mont has enacted a first-in-the-US reg­is­tra­tion process for small solar sys­tems, pro­vid­ing a national model for mit­i­gat­ing costly local solar permitting.

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Syncarpha Contracts with Siemens for New Jersey Power Plant

Siemens Energy, Inc. has been selected by Syn­car­pha Cap­i­tal to pro­vide engi­neer­ing, pro­cure­ment and con­struc­tion (EPC) ser­vices for a 3-megawatt-peak (MWp), ground-based pho­to­voltaic (PV) power plant in East­amp­ton, New Jersey.

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Wind energy farm planned for Indiana

May 31,2011 –Indi­ana Michi­gan Power, a unit of Amer­i­can Elec­tric Power (NYSE: AEP), is adding another 100 MW of wind power capac­ity at the planned Wildcat-1 wind farm in Indiana.….

German Backward Roll

Seven months ago, the Ger­man gov­ern­ment has declared an aver­age life-span exten­sion of nuclear reac­tors in Ger­many of 12 years. Then, after the nuclear dis­as­ter in Fukushima, a process of rethink­ing began and an “ethics com­mis­sion” was enacted to e…

PV Installations to Exceed 21GW in 2011

IMS Research pre­dicts that more than 21 gigawatts (GW) of new pho­to­voltaic (PV) capac­ity will be installed in 2011, up from ~18GW in 2010 accord­ing to its lat­est quar­terly report on PV demand.

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Solar Solution: Solar assisted AC in India

Air con­di­tion­ing in India has not been com­mon due to the extreme demand that it puts on a noto­ri­ously unre­li­able elec­tri­cal infra­struc­ture. But when you think about when air-conditioners (AC) would be most used in trop­i­cal coun­tries like India, it coin…

10 Key Clean Energy Trends

As the clean energy indus­try emerges from a chal­leng­ing period caused by the global eco­nomic down­turn, it is enter­ing a stage of rapid change in which busi­ness mod­els are being trans­formed against a back­drop of reg­u­la­tory uncertainty.

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Intersolar Europe 2011: Trina Solar Announces Modules and Mounting Solution

Trina Solar Lim­ited will intro­duce its new monocrys­talline mod­ule with Comax tech­nol­ogy (“TSM-DC/DA01A”), and its Tri­namount mount­ing hard­ware solu­tion at Inter­so­lar Europe 2011 held 8–10 June in Munich, Germany.

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Canadian Solar and GCL Announce PV Wafer Plant in China

Cana­dian Solar Inc.,one of the world’s largest solar com­pa­nies, and Suzhou GCL Pho­to­voltaic Tech­nol­ogy Co., Ltd., a sub­sidiary of GCL-Poly Energy Hold­ings Lim­ited, today announced a major solar joint-venture to build a 600 MW capac­ity wafer plant in Su…