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New Report Examines Global Market for Solar PV Plus Energy Storage Nanogrids

A new report from Navigant Research examines the global market for solar photovoltaics (PV) plus energy storage nanogrids, including an analysis of market issues, with forecasts for capacity and revenue, through 2024.

14 Oct 2015

ET Solar, WEG Partner to Deliver Turnkey PV Solutions for Growing Brazilian Market

ET Solar, a leading smart energy solutions provider, through its Latin American subsidiary, ET Solar Chile, announces today it has formed a consortium with WEG (Bovespa: WEGE3 / OTC: WEGZY), one of Brazil's most prestigious industrial companies. The consortium will deliver professional, turnkey PV solutions for the growing Brazilian market.

13 Oct 2015

EnviroMission, Q Analytica Enter JV to Commercialise Solar Tower Renewable Energy Technology in MENA

EnviroMission Limited has executed a Heads of Agreements (HOA) with Q Analytica LLC (QA), to form a Joint Venture that will operate to commercialise EnviroMission's Solar Tower renewable energy technology in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

From EnviroMission Limited 13 Oct 2015

Skylar Acquires Option Rights to 180MW Townsite Photovoltaic Project

Today Skylar Resources L.P. announces that it has acquired 100 percent interest in the option rights to develop the 180-megawatt (MW) Townsite photovoltaic project that KOWEPO Americas developed in Boulder City, Nevada. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

7 Oct 2015

Alliant Energy Issues RFP for New Solar Generation in Iowa

Alliant Energy is seeking to expand its renewable energy generation with solar power. Alliant Energy's Iowa utility is issuing a request for proposals for new solar projects that could increase its system-wide solar generation by 50 percent.

6 Oct 2015

Fraunhofer Researchers Develop New Manufacturing Technique Low-Cost Solar Cells

Silicon wafers are the heart of solar cells. However, manufacturing them is not cheap. Over 50 percent of the pure silicon used is machined into dust. A new manufacturing technique developed by Fraunhofer researchers puts an end to these material losses, with raw material savings of 50 percent along with an 80 percent reduction in energy costs.

5 Oct 2015

Missouri S&T Solar House Design Team to Showcase Nest Home at Solar Decathlon

A team of students at Missouri University of Science and Technology spent two years designing and building a solar-powered house filled with smart-living technology. Once it was complete, the students cut it into pieces and shipped it to California on four semitrailers to compete in an international building competition.

30 Sep 2015

Newly Designed Hybrid Solar Panel Roofing System May Halve Energy Bills

Scientists at Brunel University London have designed a new hybrid roofing system which could halve energy bills in new homes.

28 Sep 2015

Yingli Signs Solar Panel Supply Agreements with Qingdao New Energy Solutions

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, one of the world's leading solar panel manufacturers, today announced that it recently signed several agreements with Qingdao New Energy Solutions Inc. (NESI), a leading provider of agricultural and industrial building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) and utility-scale solar solutions, for the supply of 130 megawatts (MW) of high quality solar panels. Yingli has begun to deliver the first 30 MW and expects to complete the delivery by the end of September 2015.

25 Sep 2015

AEP Energy to Install 3.6MW Solar Energy Array in Clyde, Ohio

AEP Energy, a subsidiary of American Electric Power, has partnered with the City of Clyde, Ohio, to design, build, own and operate a 3.6-megawatt solar energy array.

24 Sep 2015