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Copper Mountain Solar Facility Starts Producing Electricity
With a plan to build a 500MW solar photovoltaic farm in the near future, Sempra Energy has entered into the record books by building the largest photovoltaicpower plant in the United States. Construction on the 48MW power plant,christened the Copper Mountain Solar Facility, began in January 2010 at a 380-acre desert site and included the [...]
Audi to Add More Solar Panels Atop its German Facility
The worldwide leader in solar power — Germany — is set to add a little more energy capacity to its resume this week, as Audi yesterday announced plans to expand the solar photovoltaic (PV) system that currently sitsatop the car maker’s manufacturing facility at Ingolstadt, in thesouthern part of the country. The initial system was [...]
Chile to Build Its First Large Solar Facility
In Chile, solar energy project developer Solarpack Corporación Tecnológica and state-owned Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile (Codelco), theworld’s leading copper producer, say they will build the country’s first utility-scale solar power plant in northern Chile, an area with highpotential for solar energy generation. The 1-megawatt facility (enough to power 5,000 households) will beused exclusively [...]
Nevada host to new CPV manufacturing facility
Aided by a $5.9 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Actcompetitive manufacturing tax credit, the concentrated photovoltaic(CPV) manufacturer, Amonix Incorporated, broke ground on a new 150megawatt capacity manufacturing facility in the city of North Las Vegas, Nev., on Oct. 28. The facility will help stimulate the green economy in the state. The solar energy company, based [...]
New REC integrated solar manufacturing facility celebrated with 1 millionth module
REC officially opened one of the world’s largest integrated wafer, cell and module manufacturing facilities in Tuas, Singapore. This milestone is the largest single investment ever made by REC, thelargest clean tech investment ever made in Singapore at 2.5 billionSingapore dollars, and the third largest foreign green field investmentever made by a Norwegian company. The [...]
Free Electric Vehicle Parking at The World’s Greenest Parking Facility!
BMW Group DesignworksUSA has partnered with Canopy Airport Parking to create the world’s greenest parking facility at Denver International Airport. Slated to open this month with a capacity of about 4200 vehicles, theparking project showcases a variety of advanced environmentally friendly technologies, including the use of solar power, geothermal energy, wind energy, CNG, biodiesel and [...]
Cananda Now Has Bragging Rights to World’s Largest Solar Facility
Clearly eclipsing the 60 MW Olmedilla Photovoltaic Park in Spain with a more quantifiable solar power generation capacity, the Sarnia Solar facility in Ontario has now become the world’s largest solar photovoltaic facility. Officially completed last month, the facility is now generating 80 MW of electricity. Being a joint endeavor of Enbridge Energy and First [...]
Suntech Opens First U.S. Manufacturing Facility $STP
Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. has opened its first U.S. manufacturingplant in Goodyear, Ariz. The new module production facility has aninitial 30 MW of annual capacity and will employ more than 75 operators, engineers and professionals by the end of this year. Suntechnotes that due to customer interest, it is planning to expand thefacility to [...]
SAIP, North Delhi Power Ltd to build clean waste-to-bio-power facility in New Delhi
Solena-ABSi India Pvt Ltd (SAIP) has executed a Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MOU) with North Delhi Power Ltd (NDPL), to produce up to40 MW of clean renewable energy, using SAIP’s patented plasmagasification bio-energy solution, into NDPL’s distribution network ofNorth and Northwest Delhi. The new, organic waste to energy,bio-power plant that SAIP is developing will utilize SAIP’s nextgeneration [...]