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GA-Solar and Sierra Nevada Corporation Form Renewable Energy JV for projects in Nevada and Southwest US
Sierra Nevada Corporation President, Eren Ozmen, announces today the formation of a new joint venture between SNC and GA-Solar North America. GA-SNC Solar LLC is dedicated to creating solar renewable energy in Nevada and surrounding states. Throug...
Isofoton to build a solar module assembly plant in Ohio
Isofoton initiates the first step for a new photovoltaic module production center in the U.S. that will assemble cells produced in Malaga. This new module plant is an addition to the Isofoton Producing Center in Malaga which deploys the Reis Line, o...
Titan Tracker finishes a CPV project for the ISFOC
TITAN TRACKER has just completed a demonstration project for the delivery of a solar tracker for concentrating photovoltaic systems (CPV) at the ISFOC facilities, a research center that is a world reference in that field, from the Castilla-La Manch...
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...
Dual-Junction Solar Cell Sets World Efficiency Record at 32.6 Percent at 1000 suns
Via:Semiconductor Today The III-V Semiconductors group of the Instituto de Energía Solar at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IES-UPM) in Spain has set a new record for solar energy conversion efficiency of 32.6% for a dual-junction photovoltaic ...
ICP Solar announces its intention to acquire Ibersolar Energía
ICP Solar Technologies Inc., a Canadian developer and manufacturer of solar panels today announced that it has entered into a binding Letter of Intent to acquire Ibersolar Energia, S.A., a leading Spanish manufacturer and supplier of solar photovolta...
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 ...
A step ahead to achieve next generation solar cells
In 1997, researchers from of the Instituto de Energía Solar-IES (Solar Energy Institute) in Madrid, invented and patented the concept of intermediate band solar cells as a way to turn more of the sun’s rays into electricity. After several...
GE Energy Financial Services and Landon invest in Spanish solar firm Fotowatio
GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE and Landon Corporate Group announced today they will invest about US $350 million (EUR 225 million) in Fotowatio, one of Spain’s largest and most successful solar power project developers, founded in 2...
Spanish solar companies looking to the USA for expansion plans
Taking the opposite route of many American companies investing in Spain, such as SolFocus or SunPower, some Spanish firms are being attracted by the opportunities in the US market. Spanish firm Siliken is setting up a solar-panel manufacturing plan...
Gas Natural opens one of the first European solar cooling plants
The Spanish energy company Gas Natural inaugurated yesterday in Seville one of the first European solar cooling experimental plants. The technology behind it is double-effect solar absorption cooling backed up by natural gas. That allows for mor...
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...
A new report from Frost & Sullivan states that Spain leads the way in renewable energy
A recently released report from Frost & Sullivan for the European Inverter Market for Renewable Energy Systems, finds that the market earned revenues of €654.4 ($1,004) million in 2007 and estimates they will reach €3,105 ($4,763.7) million i...
Solel wins large order for solar receivers in Spain
Solar energy technology company Solel Solar Systems Ltd. has won a contract to supply 70,000 thermosolar receivers for three new solar power plants in Spain. The company will supply its UVAC 2008 receivers to two unnamed Spanish infrastructure compa...
Iberdrola to complete a 500 MW wind farm in Granada
Iberdrola will expand its current 198 MW wind farm (El Marquesado) in Granada, Spain, to reach an installed capacity of 500 MW. That will bring the total investment in the area to around 380 million euros. This wind farm is already one of the largest...
Producing hydrogen from water and sun
On Monday March 3, a Greek research team from Thessaloniki working in Spain held its first official demonstration of a pilot-scale solar reactor at the Almeria Solar Platform (PSA). CESA installation– “Reflected light” by Miguel Hidalgo, C...
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...
Spanish solar company Isofoton looking for US headquarters
During a recent visit to the Clean and Alternative Energy Incubator at the University of Toledo, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland said he´d met with Spanish-based solar panel company Isofoton the day before, and they’re looking for a North-Americ...
Clickcells: a new concept of solar module
Nousol, a young start-up from Catalonia (Spain) has developed ClickCells, a versatile small solar module with a promising range of applications. The cells may be assembled through a patented system that brings to mind a game of building blocks, suc...
Of rice husks and solar panels
Spanish conglomerate Vallombrosa Trust is to build a new factory of solar panels in Flix (Tarragona) with a new technology that replaces silicon with rice husks, reducing the cost of production by up to 60%. The new facilities are to offer 80,000 squ...
Solar-powered vending machines
Via: Springwise An Anglo-Spanish firm, Solar Energy Vending, has come up with an off-the-grid, solar-powered vending machine that can be placed anywhere there’s adequate sunlight. Solar panels on top keep the machine’s refrigerator running, and a...
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...
A look back at the Solar Decathlon 2007
So, the coolest little village this side of the Atlantic closed its doors last Friday. The Solar Decathlon ended with a German winner, the team from Technische Universitat Darmstadt. They beat out 20 teams of architecture, engineering and business s...
U.S. and Spain to Develop Solar Decathlon Europe
Casa Solar (above and down below) from the UPM at Washington (pictures courtesy of Inhabitat) Press release from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Public Affairs, Washington, D.C. Today U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary...
The Solar village comes to life
The newest neighborhood in Washington has sprung to life. 20 University teams are showcasing on the National Mall their energy-independent homes, equipped with technological advances that provide maximized energy efficiency. The Solar Decathlon (see...
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...
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...
Special report by Technology Review (MIT) on the Spanish solar industry
In a special report, the American magazine Technology Review, produced by the MIT, highlights the latest developments and technologies in the Spanish solar power industry. The report (by Cynthia Graber) can be found here: Solar Energy in Spain or dow...
PV solar power and rural electrification for Developing countries
Philippine National Oil Co. and the Spanish firm Isofoton signed an agreement last month during the Conference on Renewable Energies in Madrid, Spain. The purpose of the alliance is to develop a photovoltaic (PV) solar energy project in the Philippin...
