Tecpro Systems, a leading engineering , procurement and construction company revealed on Monday that its wholly owned subsidiary Eversun Energy received an order worth Rs 346.8 million for its solar EPC business from NTPC The order is for 5 MW solar photovoltaic (SPV) power plant of NTPC at Faridabad, Haryana. Eversun will be using the multi crystalline PV modules for this project. The scope of work under t ...

Ormoc City may well become the renewable-energy capital of the world in an exciting development for the Philippines renewable energy efforts. Aside from its vast geothermal resource, the city will soon host a solar power plant touted to be the biggest of its kind in Asia. This was learned during the courtesy call of a Korean investor to Mayor Eric C. Codilla. Young J. Soon, chief operating officer of Philip ...

You'd expect, or at least hope, that members of the solar industry walk the walk when it comes to designing environmentally friendly offices and factories of their own. And though we don't know much about Sputnik Engineering's office and production building at Biel, Switzerland, its designer, Burckhardt+Partner, claims the building's electricity is provided entirely by renewable energy. It's not remotely su ...

The momentum for a big push into community solar projects appears to be gathering pace, with several different organisations planning public launches in the next month, and suggestions that several dozen projects could be built on NSW rooftops in coming years. Among plans revealed this week are the launch of a community solar network Farming the Sun in the northern Rivers region, to be followed soon by simi ...

China’s Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited is continuing to expand its business interests in the Asian region with the announcement that it will supply 10.269 megawatts of solar modules for projects in Malaysia. “We are delighted to make this breakthrough in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is a very promising photovoltaic market given its rich solar radiation, serious lack of electricity and governm ...

A Reliance Power Ltd. (RPWR) solar-thermal plant should start up next month after missing a May deadline because Indian authorities failed to lay a water pipeline to the site in time, Chief Executive Officer Jayaram P. Chalasani said. The 100-megawatt project “is ready to go” as soon as the water arrives, Chalasani told reporters today in Mumbai. The Rajasthan state government is completing the pipeline and ...

Japan had some optimistic economic news last week showing that the country's GDP expanded by 0.9 per cent last quarter – its quickest pace in a year. The data suggest that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's aggressive stimulus measures may be working. They certainly seem to be working to improve this reputation: investors are more confident in a Japanese leader than any time since September 2010, according to a po ...

Chinese solar stocks continued their impressive rally after The New York Times reported that the U.S. and Europe agreed to negotiate a deal with China rather than hitting its solar-panel makers with punitive tariffs. However, a recent report from Reuters claims that Europe and the United States both said on Tuesday they were not holding coordinated talks to negotiate an end to a trade dispute with China ove ...

German solar giant Conergy is predicting 20 per cent annual growth in the Australian solar market between now and 2015 as commercial-scale solar systems become competitive with the local electricity market. Conergy said the levellised cost of energy (LCOE) for solar PV systems in Australia had fallen to just under 13c/kWh, which is less than half of the average retail price in the country. It says commercia ...

Secretary Ratan P. Watal in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India and Prof. Eicke Weber, Institute Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg signed a MoU a short time ago in Berlin in the presence of Sujata Singh, the Indian Ambassador to Germany. "For a long time now, Fraunhofer ISE and India have been involved in joint projects and the excha ...