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World’s Largest Solar Plant Nears Approval in California Desert
U.S. officials are expected to approve by this fall what would be the world’s biggest solar power plant, a 1,000-megawatt project in the California desert that developers say could power 800,000 homes. The Blythe Solar Power Project, which would use concentrated solar thermal technology, is to be builton 7,025 acres of public land in Riverside [...]
Cape Canaveral Power Plant Gets Green Modernization
The Cape Canaveral Power Plant that has a history of 45 years is just on the verge of green replacement. Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) has demolished the power plant and is gearing up to build a newone that will be designed to meet the U.S. Green Building Council’sLeadership in Energy and Environmental Design [...]
LDK Solar Commissions Second Polysilicon Train At Mahong Plant $LDK
LDK Solar Co. Ltd. says its second 5,000 metric ton (MT) polysilicon train has completedthe commissioning process and commenced commercial production. This second train, located at the 15,000 MT Mahong Polysilicon Plant inXinyu City, China, is expected to reach its designed annualized capacity within three to six months. This achievement should assist LDK Solar’spolysilicon facilities [...]
World’s First Hybrid Solar/Diesel Power Plant Unveiled in Australia
Horizon Power’s Pippunyah Solar Diesel Power Station has officiallybeen unveiled in the eastern Pilbara region of Western Australia. Theplant, which is being claimed to be the world’s first hybrid solar power plant, incorporates 1350 SunPower Solar Panels that track the sun andproduce 1160KW of renewable electric power. It is expected that the plant will provide [...]
Solar Comes To Ford Michigan Plant $F
Ford Motor Company’s assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan will soon behome to the state’s largest solar energy system. Later this year, Ford,Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power of Austin, Texas will begin building a500-kilowatt (kW) solar photovoltaic (PV) energy system at the assemblyplant. The system will power the manufacturing of the new Ford Focus, FocusElectric vehicles and [...]
Cogentrix to Build World’s Largest CSP Plant
Cogentrix Energy intends to build the world’s largest concentrating photovoltaic solar power plant in the United States. The 30,000 kilowatt facility will be located in southern Colorado. The solar power plant will use 225 acres of land while producing enoughelectricity to power 6,500 homes. Cogentrix expects construction of the project to be complete by the spring [...]
Cogentrix Energy Signs Contract For Large CPV Plant
Cogentrix Energy LLC, an electric power generation project development company, has entered into a contract with Public Service Co. of Colorado (PSCo), an XcelEnergy company, for a concentrating photovoltaics project to be locatednear Alamosa, in southern Colorado. The 30 MW solar generatingproject will be the largest facility of its type in the world, according to [...]
Suntech to energize Southeast Asia’s largest solar power plant
Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd, the world’s leading producer ofcrystalline silicon solar panels, has been selected to supply 34.5MW ofsolar panels for the first phase of the largest solar power plant inThailand and Southeast Asia. Owned and operated by BangchakPetroleum Public Co. Ltd, and integrated by Solartron Public Co. Ltd,the planned 44MW (38MW AC output [...]
Kyocera Begins Production At Yasu Solar Cell Plant
Kyocera Corp. says it will begin full-scale production at its new Yasu solar cellmanufacturing facility in Yasu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. The newplant, which was completed in March of this year and has alreadyfinished production line testing, is the largest of the company’sdomestic manufacturing facilities and will be producing the company’smulticrystalline silicon solar cells. The [...]