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Florida Solar-Power Plant to Generate 75 Megawatts This Year
Florida Power & Light’snewest solar-energy plant will have enough mirrors to cover 80 footballfields. But those mirrors will focus sunlight onto surfaces that add upto slightly less than the area of a single football field. That concentration of solar power will generate temperatures of more than700 degrees — hot enough to make electricity for 11,000 [...]
STX Energy to establish cell manufacturing plant
JOHOR BAHARU, MALAYSIA: Malaysian Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib TunRazak, recently witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understandingconcerning the Senai High Technology Park (SHTP). The first MoUwas between STX Energy from South Korea and SHTP for the setting up of a RM1.5 billion solar cell module facilities and solar farms generating100 megawatts of electricity [...]
Sanyo’s HIT Solar Cells to Power Largest Solar Plant in Italy
Japan’s Sanyo Electric Company has announced that the company’s HIT solar cells will be powering the largest solarpower plant, using the type of solar panels, in Italy. The project willbe carried on by a consortium led by Deutsche Bank. The power plant will make use of 32,202 HIT solar cells and will beable to generate [...]
SunPower completes solar power plant for Duke Energy
SunPower Corp. announced the completion of the Shelby Solar Project, a1-megawatt solar power plant in Shelby, N.C. that is owned and operatedby Duke Energy Generation Services (DEGS), a Duke Energy commercialbusiness unit. Construction on the 10-acre plant began in March,and it is now producing clean, renewable solar power for North CarolinaMunicipal Power Agency Number 1 [...]
KYOCERA Supplies 9,000 Solar Modules for Czech Republic Power Plant
Kyocera Corp. has supplied roughly 9,000 solar modules for a large-scale solar power plant in the Czech Republic. Covering an area of more than28,000 m², the plant delivers an output of 1.2 megawatts (MW). In the South Moravian farming village of Moravský Žižkov, 8,960 KyoceraKD135GH-2PU solar modules are currently producing solar energy. Whenselecting products for [...]
Yingli Green Energy In French Solar Plant Deal $YGE
Yingli Green Energy (YGE) has announced it will be providing the solar modules for what will beFrance’s largest solar plant. Yingli will provide 33MW to developerMAETEL beginning in October and finish up next spring. The solar plantin Curbans, France will be owned by GDF SUEZ Group and produce 43.5million kw/hours of renewable energy each year. [...]
Sun Rays Visitors Center Now Sporting Solar Thermal Power Plant
The Sun Rays Visitors Center by designer Michael Jantzen is aconceptual design proposal for a public visitor’s center, which would be located at the site of a solar electric power plant. This hypotheticalpower plant would be located in the desert near a major city. Itgenerates electricity by reflecting and focusing the sun’s energy withhundreds of [...]
Ascent Solar Commences Production At FAB 2 Production Plant
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. has begun initial production ofmonolithically integrated flexible copper indium gallium diselenide(CIGS) modules from its high -volume FAB 2 production plant in Thornton, Colo. "Ascent Solar is the first company to commence regularproduction of monolithically integrated lightweight thin-film CIGSmodules using a plastic substrate," notes Farhad Moghadam, president and CEO of Ascent Solar. [...]