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China’s Solar Growth: Holy Cow!
China is upping its solar target once again, after having done so several times in past couple of years. Last year, China raised the target to an eye-popping 21 gigawatts (GW) by 2015, and the new target of 35 GW is 67% higher than that. That means, in just 3 years, China will have added [...]
Free Tool: Amazing Commercial Solar Project Finance Model
I’m about to give away an amazing tool. If you’re are or want to be selling or financing commercial solar projects, and you need a robust proven tool to value those projects, this model will be useful for you and your business tomorrow. Christopher Lord, of CapIron Inc, teacher of the financing section (click here to [...]
Canadian Solar Awarded 2012 Solar Project of the Year
Canadian Solar Inc. has been named the 2012 winner of the Solar Project of the Year Award by POWER-GEN International at the POWER-GEN International’s Projects of the Year awards gala in Orlando for its 148 MW solar park PV project in southern Brandenburg, Germany. According to their press release, “the solar complex in southern Brandenburg, one of the world’s largest PV projects [...]
Warren Buffett Buys The World’s Biggest Solar Plant
SunPower (Nasdaq: SPWR) is getting a strong sales pipeline for its solar panels after selling what will be the largest solar PV plant in the world. Warren Buffet’s utility, MidAmerican Energy, is buying the 579 megawatt (MW) Antelope Valley Solar Project, and will pay as much as $2.5 billion to SunPower for the sale and to build it. Antelope is actually two [...]
Top 10 U.S PV Projects Under Construction
The millionth First Solar (FSLR) solar module was installed in October at the 550-megawatt (AC) Topaz Solar Farm owned by MidAmerican Solar. When complete, the largest PV power plant in the world will field 9 million panels across thousands of acres on California’s Carrizo Plains. Construction began less than one year ago. Expected to be [...]
The Amazon: Potential Solar Power Plant Hotbed?
There is an article that appeared online yesterday in The Wall Street Journal about how some of the world’s biggest mining companies are looking to spend around $24 billion to boost production in the Amazon and how the Brazilian government is creating the infrastructure necessary to make it happen: Mining giants such as Vale and Anglo-American are increasing efforts [...]
RE-volv: Crowdfunding Community Solar Installations
Andreas Karelas founded RE-volv in 2011. He started the organization, he says, “out of a sense of frustration felt by many of us working for clean energy. The change isn’t happening fast enough and if it’s going to happen now, we’ll have to do it ourselves. There’s a huge opportunity here to mobilize people who [...]
Obama Offers $6B in Asia-Pacific Clean Energy Infrastructure
President Obama is offering a $6 billion investment in clean energy infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region under the US-Asia Pacific Comprehensive Partnership for a Sustainable Energy Future. The Partnership is being formed to drive investment in the region, and also to provide a ready export market for US companies and their technologies. There are four regional priorities: 1. Renewables and cleaner [...]
Top 10 PV Projects Under Construction in the U.S
Last month, the millionth First Solar (FSLR) solar module was installed at the 550-megawatt (AC) Topaz Solar Farm owned by MidAmerican Solar. When complete, the largest PV power plant in the world will field nine millions panels across thousands of acres on California’s Carrizo Plains. Construction began less than one year ago. Expected to be [...]