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MECASOLAR supplies 500 kW of 2-axis trackers for solar photovoltaic project in California
The Spanish company MECASOLAR- manufacturer of solar trackers and fixed structures for solar pv projects – is taking part in a project in California for which they have supplied a total of thirty-four 2-axis trackers (MS-2E TRACKER) which wi...
HGCapital acquires 3 Spanish solar plants from AIG Financial Products
HgCapital’s Renewable Power Partners Fund has invested in three Spanish solar photovoltaic (PV) plants with a total output of 35.5 MW. HgCapital is the largest fund for European renewable power projects. It purchased the stake from AIG Financial ...
Spanish solar company Fotowatio Expands in the U.S.
Fotowatio, a large Spanish independent power producer has acquired the bulk of MMA Renewable Ventures’ solar assets and its team for $19.7 million. San Francisco-based MMA Renewable Ventures develops, finances, owns and operates renewable energy pr...
IKERLAN designs and develops an organic photovoltaic module
Researchers from IKERLAN-IK4 have developed a laboratory-scale photovoltaic panel with exclusively organic technology. Thanks to this semitransparent design, it is possible to have access to the individual components of the module which allows the id...
A mega solar power plant in Portugal is connected to the grid
Acciona Energy has put into service its photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Amareleja (Moura, Portugal). The Company has invested around 261 million euro (US$367 million) in the 46 MWp plant, one of the largest of its kind in the world. Amareleja is c...
T-Solar inaugurates Spain’s first thin film Solar plant
T-Solar, a Spanish company whose main investors are the Isolux Group and the regional savings bank Caixanova, opened yesterday a state-of-the-art plant in Orense (Galicia, Northwestern Spain). T-Solar has invested so far more than 80 million e...
New, more efficient solar cells patented in Spain
A team of researchers at the Spanish High Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) has patented a new type of solar cells whose efficiency is up to 30% higher than conventional solar cells. Their photonic crystal is composed of a nanostructured surface...
FCC acquires two photovoltaic farms in Cordoba, Spain
Madrid-based Spanish Group FCC has bought from Sky Global Solar two photovoltaic farms located in Cortijo Viejo and Sierrasita, in the province of Cordoba, for $203 million USD. The farms are being connected to the grid this month and will therefore ...
Color me green
The crayon company Crayola hopes to turn roughly 15 acres of its property in Forks Township, Pennsylvania, into an array of solar panels. Those panels would help power the Crayola manufacturing plant at Easton. But the project needs to happen soon, a...
European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition
This year has not been lacking in opportunities to showcase solar energy or services. Besides generic trade shows for the whole of the renewable energy industry like Powergen-RE (February) or WIREC (March), in June there was a megashow specific to th...
8.5 MW Solar installation for SEAT´s car factory
SEAT’s factory in Martorell has been chosen by the Spanish Automaker (part of the Volkswagen Group) as the location for one of its most ambitious environmental conservation projects, where the installation of solar panels will make it possible to g...
The world´s largest PV solar plant open in Southern Spain
With an installed peak power of 20 MW, the solar park at Jumilla, Murcia (Southeastern Spain) is the world’s current highest capacity PV plant and the most efficient to-date. It took a team of 400 people 11 months to build the Jumilla plant, wh...
BP Solar to Build the Largest Module Assembly Factory in Europe in Puertollano
After announcing a huge expansion of its cell plant at its European manufacturing headquarters in Tres Cantos (Madrid) last March, BP Solar will invest $145 million to build in Puertollano (Castilla La Mancha) the largest module assembly factory in ...
SolFocus Installs First Solar Array for 3 MW Spanish CPV Project
SolFocus, manufacturer of solar energy solutions including concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) systems and Spain’s Institute of Concentration Photovoltaics Systems (ISFOC) announced two days ago the installation of the first CPV array in the ISFOC...
Growth in the Spanish solar market exceeds expectations
Feed-in tariffs in Spain, initiated in 2004 to reach the European Union’s goal of increasing renewable energy use to 20 percent by 2020, guarantee energy produced by from renewable resources will be bought by local utilities at three times the...
My two cents on Solar Power Expo 07´ (2nd penny)
It has taken me longer than I expected to get back to the comments on the Solar Power Conference and Expo - my apologies. It is a bit late now, but, anyhow, I thought I might as well wrap it up. One of the booths where we stopped during our visit to...
My two cents on Solar Power Expo 07´ (1st penny)
As promised, I will dwell a little on the things I saw at Solar Power Conference and Expo. First of all, it was incredibly crowded. In fact, so crowded that the hotel where I was supposed to be staying at told me they were sold out and did not have...
Solar energy comes to market
Boqueria Market in Barcelona Originally uploaded by Icekahlua The popular Carmel market in Barcelona now has photovoltaic energy panels financed by citizens. “At the market everyone´s fighting against climate change” is an initiative of...
A new flurry of deals in the busy Spanish solar power market
These have been busy weeks for deals in the Spanish solar energy market. We saw how WorldWater & Solar Technologies Corp., developer of high-power solar systems, announced an agreement with Prime Solar Senergy, S.L. of Spain. The latter will...
First silicon plant in Spain for solar panels
Siliken, a dynamic Spanish manufacturer of solar panels, has taken a step that will guarantee the supply of the essential raw material for their ambitious expansion plans. They are currently building what will be Spain´s first silicon plant, thus ge...
