The Choa Chu Kang Waterworks (CCKWW) is the first water treatment plant here to tap on solar power for its energy needs. A total of 3,333 pieces of solar panels were installed at Choa Chu Kang Waterworks, and these can harness enough energy to meet about 7 per cent of the plant's daily energy needs for areas such as lighting and air conditioning, it was revealed during a media briefing on Thursday (Jun 25). ...

tenKsolar (tenK), a Minneapolis based manufacturer of high energy density, low voltage PV systems today announced that they have shipped 1.69 megawatts of tenKsolar DUO for SafeGreen Energy projects in Shanghai. The solar rooftop projects are designed and constructed by SafeGreen. SafeGreen chose to install the tenKsolar DUO system because of its outstanding performance in energy density and low weight. ten ...

A venture between Toshiba Corp. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. is more than doubling capacity to produce a key solar device, tracking growth in Asia and the U.S. Production of inverters, which allow solar power to be fed into grids, will begin at a factory in Texas in late July and at a plant in Yancheng, China, as early as October, said Hidehiko Kikuchi, head of the power electronics systems division at Tos ...

China's drive for a cleaner and more efficient energy grid received a boost in April when the Chinese government issued four documents on power sector reform. The documents, which were published in rapid succession, came from several different ministries and outlined long-awaited upgrades to the functioning of the world's largest utility. The reforms were wide-ranging and introduced a number of different to ...

The mall and office tower at Bugis Junction will be partially powered by solar energy, following the installation of about 1,000 sqm of solar panels at the roof of the complex. Bugis Junction will be able to generate 200,000 kWh of clean energy and mitigate 110 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually, solar company REC said in a news release on Monday (May 25). This translates into cost savings of S$30, ...

Solar panel makers globally are preparing for their best year since 2011 when US-backed Solyndra Llc went bust, as China and Japan take advantage of falling prices to shift more of their energy production to clean power. Panel production is forecast to grow by almost a third this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That’s a significant reversal for an industry that’s been crippled by its own exce ...

German development bank KFW could lend India $1.1 billion for rooftop solar projects, on top of another loan it has extended to help the Asian country fund its ambitious green energy plans, India's top renewable energy bureaucrat told Reuters. Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to quintuple India's renewable energy capacity to 175 gigawatts by 2022, making clean energy part of his fight against climate chan ...

European industry group EU ProSun requested the benchmark review. The group said the number of Chinese companies reporting data to be included in the benchmark has “increased significantly” since early 2014 and the prices provided by these businesses “have historically been lower than prices reported by other companies,” according to the commission. “The sufficient evidence submitted by the applicant sugges ...

The Nyngan solar plant in western New South Wales on Saturday began generating power into the National Electricity Market, with the first of the 25MW completed to date feeding into the Australia’s main grid. So, far 350,000 solar PV panels have been installed by First Solar, with four times that much to be completed in the coming the months to take its nominated capacity to 102MW. It is the first of two pla ...

According to a new report by ApacMarket, the Asia-Pacific Solar Energy Panel (APAC) market will reach $37.8 billion by 2020, with a CAGR of 14.8 percent during 2014 – 2020. Roof mounted solar panels is expected to generate considerable revenue for the solar energy panel market, by the year 2020. The commercial sector will grow at the highest CAGR and generate considerable revenue for the solar energy panel ...