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200MW Solar Updraft Power Plant at Application Stage
The groundworks for the construction of the world’s first commercialsolar updraft tower may be little more than two years away. Solarupdraft towers use the power that lifts hot air balloons into the air to generate electricity. The Australian company, EnviroMission has filed land applications inArizona for two 5,500 acre sites, suitable for development of two [...]
Energy Storing Solar Plant Gets Green Light
Solana, the U.S.’s first large-scale solar plant that can storethe energy it generates on Tuesday (21) was given a $1.45 billion loanguarantee by Secretary Chu. The advantage of storage capacity is that Solana will be able to keep energy that would not be used during peak demand, thus increasing solar power’s dependability. Solana will be [...]
Boulder City, NV to Boast 300MW PV Plant
The never-ending race to build the largest solar PV power plant continues. Green sources have announced that POSCO Power and California based renewable energyprojects development company, Sustainable Energy Capital Partners (SECP) are teaming up to build a 300-MW photovoltaic solar power plant in lovely Boulder City, Nevada. “This project is the world’s largest solar PV [...]
Abound Solar to Build Largest Thin Film Solar Plant in Indiana
A next-generation cadmium telluride, thin-film photovoltaic solarmodule plant will be built in the State of Indiana, it was announcedearlier this week. Abound Solar, which specializes in solar modules that reduce the cost of solar power generation, has leased a 781,750 squarefoot facility in Tipton where it will be establishing the plant. Abound Solar was able [...]
Nations’s Largest PV Plant Now in Nevada
The largest photovoltaic (PV) power plant in the United States was completed last week, as Arizona-based First Solar finished building the Copper Mountain Solar Facility in Boulder City, Nevada, 40 miles east of Las Vegas. The plant was constructed on behalf of Sempra Generation — a SanDiego, California power provider to wholesale electricity markets — [...]
Czech Republic’s largest open-area plant goes online
With 17,500 modules, SOLARWATT AG has built its largest open-area plantin the Czech Republic to date in the South Bohemian town of Frymburk. The solar power plant with a total output of 4.2 MWp has been supplying the E.ON Czech Republic grid with solar energy since the middle ofNovember. The monocrystalline modules were installed without [...]
SunEdison Activates Rovigo Solar Plant in Italy $WFR
SunEdison just flipped the switch on a 70-megawatt (MW) solar energy plant in Rovigo, a small town in northeast Italy. The Rovigo plant is currently the largest single photovoltaic (PV) plant in Europe. Working in partnership with First Reserve, SunEdison will handle thepower plant’s operations and maintenance. During its first year ofoperation, the 276-million Euro solar [...]
Pistachio Plant Solar Installation Complete in California
The Wasco, California-based pistachio processing plant now has a 1.1-megawatt (MW) solar energy system to power its operations thanks to Cenergy Power, a Californiacommercial solar developer that will provide a decade of operations andsystem maintenance. Located in California’s fertile Central Valley, Primex Farms is anenvironmental leader in the agricultural sector. According to CEO ofPrimex Farms, [...]
Helios Solar one step closer to CPV manufacturing plant
Things are getting real for Helios Solar. What began as a dream has started to take hold, and both Fowler,Colo., and nearby Pueblo are contributing support to a potentialconcentrated photovoltaics (CPV) manufacturing plant that may take rootin the area. “The town of Fowler really wants to do this,” said Ben Jones, CEO of Helios Solar. [...]