Latest Solar Power company news
AZUR SOLAR has signed an agreement with Bluefield Partners LLP that will see Bluefield financing a large number of new AZUR SOLAR installed 50kWp and 150kWp solar PV installations on industrial, commercial and agricultural roofs over the next six months. Through the deal, these will be installed for free ahead of the Government’s FIT change at the end of March 2012 and enable roof owners and tenants to benefit via receiving clean energy savings without deploying their own capital.
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The Sorrento Eagle Dunes Solar Farm, located in Lake County, Florida, will have a total capacity of 40 MW and an annual generation of more than 64,000,000 kilowatt-hours. This is equivalent to the annual energy use of roughly 8000 area homes. The Sorrento project will be the largest private solar plant in the State of Florida and one the largest solar PV projects in the United States. The annual power generated from the solar plant will displace over 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year... [more]
California’s central valley region has significant solar resources and a wealth of agricultural business that can benefit from the implementation of innovative solar technology.
SolFocus, Bechtel Power Corporation and developer Sol Orchard, have completed a one megawatt high concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) power plant for Nichols Farms in Hanford, CA. The Nichols Farms project is delivering lower operating costs, and the impact of future increasing energy costs has been minimized.
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According to a White Paper published by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the falling costs of photovoltaic (PV) technology mean that solar energy is already a more economically attractive option for domestic power generation in the Gulf Cooperation Council Region (GCC) when compared to oil-fired electricity production.
Bloomberg New Energy Finance modeled the use of a 100MW PV project built in 2011 to displace oil-fired power generation, freeing that oil to be sold at world market prices.
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Bergamo Acquisition Corp has come to terms for three hybrid solar thermal power plants totaling 200 megawatts to be located in India. Bergamo Acquisition Corp's subsidiary in India, Bergamo Harbinsons, has handled the negotiations. Bergamo is to receive a ten percent fee to be paid upfront. The payments will come in the form of irrevocable letters of credit totaling approximately $77.5 million USD.
The Bergamo management team will be meeting in New Delhi, India in about ten days to close thes... [more]
The photovoltaics (PV) array development in the South Somerset village of Long Sutton is expected to be completed in March 2011 and will create solar power through a series of ground mounted solar panels, covering around two acres on a six acre site. But what makes this even more remarkable is that, unlike so many other renewable energy projects, this one is being undertaken by a husband and wife team, Nick Gould and Lynne Lawrence, who are owner-occupiers as the PV array site is on their reside... [more]
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