Archive for the ‘Renewable Energy’ Category

A new study released by Navigant Consulting finads that a 25% by 2025 national Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) would support hundreds of thousands of new American jobs and prevent a near-term collapse in some industries. Job growth in the wind, solar, biomass, waste-to-energy and hydropower industries would particularly benefit the Southeastern U.S. and manufacturing states whose Congressional delegations have had a history of voting against incentives and other measures designed to support the renewable energy sector.

Solarfun Power Holdings Co. Ltd. announced the introduction of Eclipse, a new line of PV cells and modules with reduced light induced degradation (LID). The largest percentage of degradation of PV modules occurs during the first day of sun exposure.

BEDFORD, MA – February 1, 2010 – Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing capital equipment and turnkey lines to manufacture photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, announced its 30MW per year turnkey solar cell line has been accepted by Hanwha Chemical Corporation Ltd. of South Korea (Hanwha). The line exceeded both its efficiency and throughput specifications producing 15.8% efficient multi-crystalline silicon solar cells at the rate of more than 34MW per year.

SolarCraft has been selected by the Novato Chamber of Commerce (NCOC) as the inaugural recipient of its Green Business of the Year Award. In business since 1984, SolarCraft celebrates its 26th year providing renewable energy services to the North Bay. They offer full-service solar electric, solar pool heating and solar hot water, including consulting, design, sales, installation, monitoring and maintenance.

SunEdison a subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials has activated the first phase of its 16-megawatt (MW) solar farm in Davidson County, N.C.The first phase of the project represents 4 MW of generation capacity and is comprised of more than 14,000 solar panels. The complete system is expected to go online by the end of the year.

The Global Wind Energy Council this week announced that the world’s wind power capacity grew by 31% in 2009, adding 37.5 gigawatts (GW) to bring total installations up to 157.9 GW. A third of these additions were made in China, which experienced yet another year of over 100% growth. The main markets driving this significant growth continue to be Asia, North America and Europe, each of which installed more than 10 GW of new wind capacity in 2009.

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Magnetek, Inc. (NYSE: MAG) today announced that it has received an initial production order valued at nearly $1.5 million for its newly designed utility-scale E-FORCE™ liquid cooled wind inverter. Delivery of the inverters is scheduled to be completed by the end of June, 2010, the end of the Company’s fiscal year.

Eurus Energy America Corporation has completed its second wind farm in the State of Oregon. Construction on the 63-megawatt (MW) was completed in late December 2009 with energy sales commencing on January 1, 2010 under a 20-year power purchase agreement with Clark County’s Public Utility District Number 1.

Currently in the United States hybrid electric vehicles represent 2.5% of new car sales. The majority of hybrids are concentrated in California but as more plug-in and pure electric models come into the market, the vehicles will become more ubiquitous. Some experts expect the number of electric autos on American roads to increase by a couple million over the next few years.

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