Toronto-based private investment firm JCM Capital has announced plans to co-develop and fund costs for approximately 100MW of PV projects in Japan. The company said it would focus on projects of 10MW and larger, and was seeking partners to develop project sites of 40 hectares and above. JCM will fund project costs through to the construction-ready stage and rely on its construction and long-term financing p ...

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. will launch Shikoku's largest mega-solar project at 21 MW in collaboration with Mitsubishi Corporation on part of the land owned by Nippon Paper Industries in Komatsushima-shi, Tokushima Prefecture. The construction of the facilities will commence this autumn. The electricity to be generated will be sold to Shikoku Electric Power Co., Inc. from the latter half of 2014 under ...

DuPont Microcircuit Materials and JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd., recently collaborated to achieve a reported 19.4% solar cell efficiency. JA Solar's 6-inch monocrystalline Cypress modules in a 60-cell format now generate a maximum power output of 270W and a conversion efficiency of 16.51%; its 6-inch full-square monocrystalline modules in a 60-cell format generate a maximum power output of 280W and a conversi ...

Chinese solar done right is as good as just about any - but if you're considering going solar using modules made in China; you might want to do so soon. First it was the USA; soon India and the EU - and now there's a push for Australia to add an "anti-dumping" penalty on cheap solar panels from China sold in the country. China's domination of the solar panel market has had major benefits for end consumers; ...

In an effort to expand the use of renewable energy and take measures to help reduce pollution, Hyundai will install South Korea's largest rooftop photovoltaic power plant at its manufacturing factory in Asan, where vehicles like the Sonata Hybrid are built. Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) will purchase the electricity generated by the solar modules and sell it to nearby areas. Nearly 40,000 such mo ...

A Vijayawada-based solar energy equipment manufacturer, Jyothi Solar Power Projects has claimed that by using two new technologies together with the existing PV panel system, 91% of the Sun’s energy could be converted into electrical power. At a meeting to showcase the technologies here on Saturday, P. Lakshminarayana, Director Technical of the company said they had applied for patents. They include ‘Twinti ...

China Merchants New Energy Group, a Hong Kong-based renewable-energy project developer, will form a joint venture with Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Investment Co. to invest 3 billion yuan to develop solar farms. The venture will build about 300 MW of solar power plants in China’s western region of Xinjiang by 2015, China Merchants said in a statement posted on its website yesterday. The plan c ...

Armstrong Asset Management’s $150m South East Asia Clean Energy Fund has signed its first solar deal, agreeing to a strategic cooperation with Thai energy developer Symbior Solar Siam, a subsidiary of Hong-Kong based energy company Symbior Energy. The agreement sees Armstrong acquire a 60% interest in a portfolio of six small-scale solar power plants, delivering a combined capacity of 30MW to the Thai natio ...

The EU have confirmed plans to impose a strict anti-dumping tariff onto Chinese solar panel manufacturers. The news came shortly after a conference at the European Commission. The tariff will be between 37.2 and 67.9%, with an average of 47.6% levied against the companies that did not co-operate in EU investigating into dumping. This action is to counter Chinese dominance in the European market, gained by u ...

India plans to defer fines for solar-thermal power developers that failed to complete $1 billion of plants in time as it seeks to spur investment in the industry. Reliance Power Ltd. (RPWR), Godawari Power and Ispat Ltd. and Lanco Infratech Ltd. (LANCI) are among companies that failed to finish seven projects totaling 470 MW by May because of a lack of water and equipment and financing problems, said Minist ...