Saudi Electric and Showa Shell Plan Solar Plant in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Elec­tric­ity Com­pany and Showa Shell Sekiyu have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing for the devel­op­ment of a 500kW solar power plant on Farasan Island using Solar Frontier’s CIS technology.

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South Africa’s Eskom gets $365m for solar, wind plants

June 1,2011 –The African Devel­op­ment Bank has approved a $365m loan to Eskom for two power plant projects, accord­ing to Pub­lic Enter­prises min­is­ter Malusi Gigaba.….

Intersolar Europe 2011: Suntech Introduces BlackPearl Solar Module

Sun­tech Power Hold­ings Co., Ltd. will intro­duce the STP250S-20/Wd+ Black­Pearl, a new gen­er­a­tion high-efficiency mod­ule, at Inter­so­lar, Munich this week.

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