Tindo - the name of Adelaide City Council’s electric solar bus - is the first in the world to be recharged using 100% solar power. Tindo  features 11 Zebra battery modules that use sodium/nickel chloride technology. According to Adelaide City Council, the controlled temperature batteries operate "without loss of performance or life expectancy in virtually any conditions". The batteries give the electric bus ...

India's solar sector is awaiting the official launch of the second phase of the country's Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. Obstacles to the launch include controversy over the domestic content rules, possible rules regarding the import of cheap modules, budget problems and the country's upcoming national elections scheduled for May 2014. The first phase of the National Solar Mission, which began in ...

The Solar Business of Schneider Electric SA (Reuil-Malmaison, France) enters the Japanese solar market with an integrated solution based on the Conext Core XC solar photovoltaic (PV) inverters, adapted to meet the local requirements. According to Schneider, first projects have already been won in the Hyogo Prefecture and will be installed over the autumn. At the heart of the system design and equipment is t ...

Chinese solar panel maker Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd said Chief Executive David King had resigned from the company with immediate effect, weeks after three directors left citing cash flow concerns. King, who was also acting chief financial officer, took up the CEO post in August last year, replacing founder Zhengrong Shi. Zhou Weiping, president and director, will take over King's positions temporarily w ...

JinkoSolar has entered into an agreement with renewable energy company Acciona for the supply of 274 MWp worth of PV modules. JinkoSolar will be supplying Oakleaf Investment Holdings with 94 MWp of solar modules for a solar farm in Northern Cape Province, South Africa. The delivery will commence from November 2013 through September 2014. Oakleaf is a joint-venture invested by Acciona and its South African l ...

Welspun Energy today said it is considering setting up a 25-MW solar power project at an investment of around Rs 200 crore in Assam. “We are looking to enter the North East, particularly Assam. To start with, we are considering a solar project to generate 20-25 MW of power at an investment of around Rs 200 crore,” Welspun Energy President TR Kishor Nair told PTI on the sidelines of an Assocham energy summit ...

Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. (YGE), the largest solar-panel manufacturer, agreed to supply 28 megawatts of modules to China State Grid Corp. for a power plant in Hebei Province. The panels will be delivered to the nation’s largest power distributor by the end of the fourth quarter, Baoding, China-based Yingli said today in a statement. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. ...

JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd., one of the world's largest manufacturers of high-performance solar power products, today announced that it will supply 96 MW of solar modules to CPI Huanghe Hydropower Development Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Power Investment Corporation, for use on two solar projects in China's Qinghai Province. Delivery of the modules has already commenced and will be complete ...

Clenergy recently announced the establishment of Clenergy (Xiamen) Energy Engineering Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Clenergy. The new company will focus on and specialize in delivering solar EPC services and will build on Clenergy's expansion in China. Clenergy's senior management described this as strategically important and part of the company's regional business plan. To lead this new subsidiary, ...

State-owned Bhel today said its electronics division here has bagged an order worth Rs 96 crore from NTPC to set up a 15 MW-solar power plant in Uttar Pradesh. The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) order is for design, manufacture, testing, erection and commissioning of the 15 MW grid-Interactive solar power plant at Singrauli in Uttar Pradesh,the company said in a statement. BHEL will execute ...