Latest Solar Power company news
Recurrent Energy has been awarded 144.5 MWac (165 MWstc) of distributed solar power projects by the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) under a new Feed-in Tariff program that is part of the landmark Green Energy and Green Economy Act.
Recurrent Energy will finance, build, own and operate the photovoltaic (PV) solar power systems, using equipment and services meeting the 60 percent domestic content requirements of the Feed-in Tariff program. The company expects to invest well over US$400 million i... [more]
SunEdison has a strong foothold in Canada as an owner/operator of Canada’s first solar PV energy park, First Light, a 9.1MW project located in Stone Mills, Ontario. SunEdison has announced that it will be more than doubling its Canadian workforce in 2010.
SunEdison will be hiring for the following positions in Canada during the first quarter of 2010:
* Regional Operations Managers
* Project Managers
* Project Superintendents
* Assistant Project Superintendents
* Elec... [more]
A leading European crystalline solar cell manufacturer places for the first time a large order for multiple SOLARIS systems. The customer will use the SOLARIS from Oerlikon Systems to significantly increase their production capacity in North America. The system is set for delivery during the coming year.
“Our original strategy of offering a compact, cost-effective platform with single wafer handling is proving to be a very popular solution with Photovoltaic (PV) manufacturer,” says Andreas D... [more]
The new Nailsea School for North Somerset Council is one of the first to be built as part of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF), One School Pathfinder (OSP) programme using the Government’s Partnership for Schools framework that will cater for 1500 pupils. The new development, replacing the current establishment, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, is on the sports ground. On completion, the old school will be demolished by the project’s main contractor Carillion to make way for ne... [more]
Optomec has announced that the company’s Aerosol Jet deposition system has been selected to be part of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Atmospheric Processing Platform in the Process Development and Integration Lab (PDIL).
The Aerosol Jet system, which will be installed at NREL’s facility in Golden, Colorado, will be primarily used to develop deposition processes for metallization and coatings to reduce cost of production of Crystalline Silicon and Thin ... [more]
Two inventors have patented The Green Roadway technology portfolio, an end-to-end system of installations and configurations for creating, gathering and distributing solar or wind energy along roadways. The technology could be implemented on the right-of-way along interstate highways, local roads and even railways.
“Genedics’ Green Roadway patents describe a forward-looking clean energy system that provides near term solutions to power generation siting difficulties,” said Victor Cardona, Co-... [more]
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