Tag Archives: france
SunPartner Enters U.S Market
SunPartner, a French company that won the second-ever Nobel Sustainability award earlier this month, is expanding its technology to solarize new surfaces and its market reach into the United States. SunPartner is known for its WYSIPS technology, which stands for “What You See Is a Photovoltaic Surface.” It’s an ultra-thin, transparent and flexible solar film [...]
France’s Plan to Revive it’s Solar Industry
France has vowed to offer more financial support to small solar power farms (more than 2 billion euros in investments) to save the dying solar industry. In the past two years, 15,000 jobs were lost—there were 32,500 jobs in 2010 and a mere 18,000 in 2012. “Many jobs were lost because of the (former) government’s [...]
New York: The Solar King of the U.S?
This week the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced that it awarded 16 companies a total of $30 million to support commercial solar photovoltaic projects. Not satisfied with just that, the state also announced requests for proposals for $107 million more in solar projects. Both the awards and the RFPs are [...]
Enphase Announces Impressive Q2 Results
Solar microinverter firm Enphase (Nasdaq:ENPH) announced strong second-quarter earnings in its second quarter as a public company this afternoon. In a bit of a shocker, just prior to its earnings call, Enphase announced the departure of its CFO Sanjeev Kumar. Like all abruptly departing CFOs, Kumar will be devoting more time to his family. Hopefully, [...]
Top 10 Ways Paris Keeps it Green
Paris, the beautiful capital city of France commonly thought as one of the major global leaders within the clean technology industry, including renewable energy, energy efficiency, and sustainability. As not only the capital of a major European country, but as one of the most influential cities on the continent, Paris looks to lead the pack [...]
Paris: Leading the Electric Car Sharing Revolution
Which one of the images to the right would you expect to encounter when visiting Paris this summer? If you answered all four, then you are right on the mark! Summer has arrived here in Paris, and along with it comes the opportunity to visit the great sites the city has to offer such as [...]
SunPower Expands Manufacturing in France
Despite the gut in PV modules throughout most of the world, SunPower is expecting more demand for its products. As such it just introduced its newest manufacturing facility in De Vernejoul, France, near it’s northeastern border with Germany. The new plant employs roughly 80 workers and will produce 44 megawatts of modules annually. “Construction [...]
The World’s Largest PEM Fuel Cell
International chemical group Solvay now claims to have created the world’s largest PEM (Proton exchange membrane) fuel cell. The one megawatt hydrogen fuel cell has been set up at SolVin chlorine plant in Antwerp, Belgium. Used for industrial demonstration it produced power of more than 500 megawatts per hour and has been generating energy at [...]
Nazca finalizes record Solyndra project in France
Solyndra Inc., a manufacturer of cylindrical photovoltaic (PV) systemsfor large commercial rooftops, announced that Nazca, a Platinum Solyndra Solution Provider, has completed a 1.28 MW solar system installation on a large warehouse close to Toulouse, France. The warehouse wasbuilt by the GSE group, of which Nazca is a subsidiary, and subsequently sold to the “Port [...]