JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd., one of the world's largest manufacturers of high-performance solar power products, today announced that it plans to develop three solar power projects totaling 300 MW in Xingtai City in China's Hebei Province. The projects, located in Xingtai City's Lincheng, Neiqiu and Xingtai counties, will each have a capacity of 100 MW. The Company has obtained approval from the Hebei Provin ...

Panasonic Corp. (6752) is targeting rooftops for its solar panels as developers struggle to find big enough plots of affordable land in Japan with the access to transmission lines needed for utility-scale projects. Japan’s largest consumer-electronics maker, which sold 540 megawatts of solar products in the 2012 fiscal year, wants to increase the volume by 25 percent this year, said Kazuhiro Yoshida, who he ...

Goldpoly New Energy Holdings Limited has entered into an agreement with a number of Chinese solar companies to buy 400MW of solar power plants. According to the agreement, GD Solar, NARI Technology Development Co Ltd, GUODIAN Inner Mongolia New Energy Investment Ltd, Poly Solar Technologies (Beijing) Co Ltd and Forty-Eighth Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corp will build solar power ...

US thin-film module manufacturer First Solar and Australian PV developer and installer Ingenero have formed a partnership agreement aimed at serving the market in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. The two companies will target the commercial and off-grid markets. Ingenero has experience of building small to medium-scale projects, while First Solar is more commonly associated with utility-scale projects ...

Welspun Energy has commissioned its 55 mw solar photovotaic (PV) power plant in Rajasthan. This project was a part of the first phase of the National Solar Mission and is Asia's largest single location solar power plant. This solar project, located near Phalodi in Jodhpur district, has been developed in three phases of 15, 15 and 20 mw. Welspun stated that it completed the project in five months. This solar ...

Three major solar manufacturers are producing panels at full speed and contemplating plans to expand capacity to meet surging demand in Asia. Trina Solar Ltd., the third-largest panel producer, increased its forecast for panel shipments this year to as much as 2.4 gigawatts from an earlier range of 2 gigawatts to 2.1 gigawatts, according to a statement yesterday. That matches the Changzhou, China-based comp ...

Armstrong Asset Management has announced that it will commit US$30 million for solar PV and biogas projects in Southeast Asia. The company is pairing up with developer Annex Power on the projects in Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore. “We are delighted to be expanding on our strong relationship with the Armstrong Fund whose investment objectives align very well with our own and whose experience in the renewa ...

A prototype of India’s first floating solar power station could soon be coming up in the pond of Victoria Memorial. If the plan proves to be a success, such floating solar power stations could also be set up in the water reservoirs and dams of hydroelectric power stations thereby increasing their output. “Developing a floating solar power station would prove to be a revolutionary step as it could solve the ...

JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd., one of the world's largest manufacturers of high-performance solar power products, today announced that its p-type mono-crystalline silicon ("mono-Si") solar cells, a new family of high-performance solar cells dubbed "PERCIUM," have surpassed 20% conversion efficiency. The newly achieved conversion efficiency, which has been independently confirmed and certified by the Fraunhofe ...

Indian water company Deccan Water Treatment has secured an INR3.7bn ($62m) order to develop a 31MW solar power station from Kenyan Piedmont Investments. The project is slated for commission for August 2014, and adds to Deccan’s other solar projects, including a 50MW venture in the UAE and a 10MW farm in India, both due to become operational before the end of the year. Company founder Anirban Sarkar told Ind ...