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Silex Unit Completes Australia’s Largest CPV Solar Project

Solar Systems Pty Ltd, a unit of technology company Silex Systems Ltd. (SLX), completed Australia’s biggest concentrating photovoltaic project as part of plans to develop one of the world’s largest at the site. The 1.5-megawatt solar plant in Mildura, northwestern Victoria, has started feeding electricity to the grid, generating enough power for about 500 homes, the company said in a statement today. It wil ...

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KDDI to Build Three Solar Power Plants on Idle Land in Japan

KDDI Corp., Japan’s second-biggest mobile phone company, will build three solar plants in central Japan with a combined capacity of 8.8 MW to take advantage of the country’s incentive program for clean energy.  The Tokyo-based company will build a 3.5 MW station in Tochigi prefecture with plans for a 3.3 MW and 2 MW plants, both in Ibaraki prefecture, it said in a statement. The plants will be built on idle ...

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Clenergy & CGN Solar Energy Plan 118MW of PV Projects in China

Binchuan County in Yunnan, China, recently committed to 118MW of solar PV projects that will be operational by the end of 2015. Clenergy, the solar park solution provider, co-operates with its strategic partner CGN Solar Energy, China's leading solar power provider, on an investment and development agreement with Binchuan County. The agreement comes on the heels of a 300MW project agreement with the city of ...

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Emcore to Supply Solar Cells for India’s Space Research

Emcore Corp., a maker of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for fiber optics and solar power, will make and test high-efficiency multijunction solar-cell assemblies for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) under a $22 million supply contract announced on June 20th. The assemblies will be used in ISRO’s commercial geostationary telecommunications and scientific Earth observation ...

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Chinese PV Manufacturers Moving Up and Out to Kenya

Facing punitive tariffs in the EU, Chinese solar panel makers are eagerly looking to African markets and the state-owned Jiangxi Corporation is helping to coordinate a $140 million solar power station in Garissa, Kenya, as a base of operation. Chinese solar panel makers will supply most of the $140 million needed to build a solar power station in Garissa, Kenya, according to Xinhuanet, the information servi ...

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Tata Wins Over IBM, Dell in India with Solar Cheaper Than Grid

Tata Group’s solar unit is expanding its business building plants for customers, forecasting that offices and factories will be paying more for grid power than solar by 2016 in most Indian states. Solar installations for commercial and industrial energy consumers, such as cement factories, information technology parks and car manufacturers, seeking to generate their own power represent a market of about 80 ...

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Welspun Energy Secures Funding for Solapur Solar Project

Welspun Energy, India's biggest developer of solar projects, on Wednesday said that it had achieved financial closure for a 20 MW solar project being set up in Solapur in Maharashtra at a cost of Rs.180 crore. Leading financial institutions have committed to a long-term project funding of Rs.135 crore, with debt and equity ratio of 75:25, the company said. Its subsidiary Welspun Energy Maharashtra Pvt. Ltd. ...

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Agricultural Sector in Japan to Get 200 MW of Solar Power by 2015

The National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Association of Japan is implementing the largest solar power project in the country. The association, known as Zen-Noh, has formed a joint venture with the Mitsubishi Group to establish 200 MW of solar power generating systems at Zen-Noh facilities nationwide. The two companies have established the JAMC Solar Energy Company to operate these systems. Power ...

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China and Japan Driving Renewable Investment in Africa

Chinese power companies and Japanese trading houses are emerging as major financiers of African renewable energy projects, which saw investment quadruple to $9.3 billion last year, Baker & McKenzie LLP said. “Asian investors are increasingly targeting African renewable energy projects,” attracted by better returns and strong wind and solar resources on the continent, the Chicago-based law firm said in r ...

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Santerno Partners and Energy Absolute Provide Inverters for Southeast Asia’s Largest Solar Plant

Santerno, the Carraro Group company that specializes in alternative energy electronics and industrial automation, has announced that the company has reached an agreement with Energy Absolute, the renewable energy business network in Thailand, to provide solar power inverters to the largest photovoltaic plant in Southeast Asia. Under the terms of the contract, Santerno will supply all the integrated inverter ...

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