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Enbridge and First Solar Sarnia Project Expansion, Ontario
Enbridge Inc. and First Solar, Inc. announced that they have entered into an agreement to expand the Sarnia Solar Project from 20 MW to 80 MW. Press at: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0566736.htm or http://tinyurl.com/yhc922n
Enbridge: http://www.enbridge.com/
First Solar: http://www.firstsolar.com/
Prism Solar Technologies and The Solar Energy Consortium Contract
Prism Solar Technologies and The Solar Energy Consortium reached an agreement on a $3.6-million federal grant secured by Congressman Maurice Hinchey’s office for Prism Solar. Prism Solar will receive $3,240,000 to manage a project to commercialize a solar bifacial ribbon cell technology that can be utilized with Prism Solar’s Holographic Planar Concentrator technology. Press at RenewableEnergyWorld: http://tinyurl.com/ybrdgr3
Prism Solar press: http://www.prismsolar.com/?p=press
TSEC: http://thesolarec.org/
Invictus PV Rooftop System for Katoen Natie, Belgium
Invictus nv built a 40-MWp rooftop PV system for Katoen Natie, part of a series of projects realized by Invictus for a total of 68 MWp during 2009. Press at ENF.cn: http://news.enf.cn/en/news/news_12114.html
Invictus nv: http://www.invictus.be/
U.S. PPA Industry
The U.S. solar power purchase agreement market will grow to reach an estimated $8 billion in new PV solar power generation installations by 2013 according to Gartner, Inc. Press through PVSociety http://www.pvsociety.com/ at: http://www.pcb007.com/pages/zone.cgi?a=55087
Gartner: http://www.gartner.com/technology/home.jsp
Solar Industry 2009
SolarPlaza covers the Bank Sarasin report “Solar industry 2009: the first green shoots of recovery”, with growing interest in the Middle Eastern countries for solar power, at: http://www.solarplaza.com/news/solar-industry-set-for-global-recovery or http://tinyurl.com/ydfy3yx
http://www.tradearabia.com/news/newsdetails.asp?Sn=OGN&artid=171373 or http://tinyurl.com/yh9qgtw
EER Report on Southern Europe Solar PV Markets and Strategies
Emerging Energy Research has released “Southern Europe Solar PV Markets and Strategies: 2009-2020″. Information at: http://tinyurl.com/yzllloz
Solar Project Finance
SolarCity and U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation formed a partnership to finance small- and medium-scale solar projects for homeowners and businesses across the U.S. The two companies created a new US $50-million tax-equity based fund to finance projects under SolarCity’s SolarLease program. More on the program at RenewableEnergyWorld: http://tinyurl.com/ydurzmj
SolarCity: http://www.solarcity.com/
U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation: http://tinyurl.com/ykz3xh7
Solar for School District, California
The Lafayette School District in California unveiled 4 new solar electric systems developed and financed through 2 PPAs – one with Tioga Energy and one with Solar Monkey. Press at Solarbuzz: http://www.solarbuzz.com/News/NewsNAPR1792.htm
Tioga Energy: http://www.tiogaenergy.com/
Solar Monkey: http://www.solarmonkey.net/
Sustainable Energy Technology Inverters for Ontario Solar Market
Sustainable Energy Technologies Ltd. has been taking orders for its Sunergy line of inverters that will be manufactured in Ontario. The company expects to produce 40 MW of inverters in Q1 2010 with an expansion to 240 MW to follow. Press and video interview with Brent Harris about the Sunergy product and the company’s parallel stringing technology at RenewableEnergWorld: http://tinyurl.com/y885vgt
Sustainable Energy Technologies: http://www.sustainableenergy.com/
Pure energies MOU with SMA America
Pure energies announced an MOU with SMA America, LLC outlining the supply of 17 MW of solar inverters in 2010, with a target of 50 MW over the next 3 years. Press at RenewableEnergyWorld: http://tinyurl.com/yza755k
Pure energies: http://www.pure-energies.com/
SMA America: http://www.sma-america.com/en_US.html
BTU Solar Processing Equipment Orders
BTU International announced it received approximately $5.5 million in orders from Asia/Pacific customers for BTU solar processing equipment. Press at: http://tinyurl.com/yg9vn6c
BTU: http://www.btu.com/
GWS Technologies Proprietary Solar Panels
GWS Technologies, Inc. announced that it will begin accepting orders for their own proprietary solar panels beginning 1 January. Press at: http://tinyurl.com/ya3bmqp
GWS Technologies: http://www.greenwindsolar.com/