Conergy continues to strengthen its leading position in Thailand in 2013, heading into the new year with a major 31.5 megawatt order. It is already the second large-scale project for the Bangkok-based client and investor Siam Solar Energy 1 Co., Ltd. (SSE), a subsidiary of Thai Solar Energy Company Limited (TSE). In autumn 2012, Conergy started constructing two power plants for SSE with a total installed ca ...

Mizuho Financial Group Inc. (8411) will lead a group of Japanese companies to build a solar plant in Gujarat as India targets an eightfold expansion in sun-powered capacity. The facility will be able to generate as much as 200 megawatts and may cost as much as 30 billion yen ($325 million), Masako Shiono, a company spokeswoman, said today by telephone. Mizuho’s corporate lending unit signed a memorandum of ...

China’s Suntech Power Holdings Co. plans to establish a solar panel factory in Uzbekistan, according to data published by the republic’s economics ministry on Monday. Suntech and Uzbekistan’s state energy company Uzbekenergo have signed a memorandum on setting up the $10 million joint venture for the project, to be set up in the Navoiy free industrial and economic zone, the ministry said, but did not clarif ...

Renewable Energy Corporation ASA (REC), the largest European supplier of solar panels, announced that it was the exclusive supplier of high-performance solar panels for two five MW solar power plants in the region of Gujarat, India, known as the 'solar energy hub'. "The historic blackout in India in late July 2012 identified the main problems of energy supply in India: a strong focus on fossil fuels and the ...

China plans to increase its goal for solar-power installations in 2015 by an ambitious 67 percent to reduce reliance on fossil fuels blamed as smog in Beijing reached record hazardous levels this month. The world’s biggest emitter of carbon-dioxide plans to raise the solar target to 35 gigawatts by 2015 from 21 gigawatts set last year, boosting demand for manufactures that suffer from slowing sales in Europ ...

The solar market is growing rapidly in India, and the state of Gujarat is very progressive towards renewable energy. A megawatt scale power plant will be soon be commissioned in Vadodara, the area’s first solar power project. GreenBrilliance is the company that has been chosen for the EPC contract, and will install and commission the project. GreenBrilliance, a leading manufacturer of globally certified pho ...

A 150 MW solar power plant will be commissioned in Maharashtra by the end of March 2013. The Rs 1,600 crore plant will be built near the village of Nizampur village in Dhule district. Dhule, in north Maharashtra, is known for dry land, bright sunlight and high solar radiation, mainly because its proximity to the tropic of cancer. V S Patil, executive director (solar power generation) of the Maharashtra stat ...

Tamil Nadu would generate around 40% of the solar energy produced in the country by 2015, said Sudeep Jain, chairman and director of the Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA). Jain was addressing an international workshop on renewable energy, climate change, energy management being held in the city on Thursday. He said that solar power generation was set to surge as state was all set to complete its r ...

On January 28th, Mitsubishi Corp. announced plans to build a solar power plant in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, the largest of its kind in the disaster-hit Tohoku region. The 12 MW facility is expected to start operating in mid-2014. Mitsubishi Corp. said it is developing the solar project with full support from Nippon Kasei Chemical Co., as well as cooperation from the Fukushima prefectural and Iwaki city g ...

Shan Solar, a solar PV modules manufacturer with production facility at Sri City in Andhra Pradesh, has forayed into the rooftop systems with solar power kits for the residential segment. The company already enjoys presence in the solar farm space and is setting up a 25 MW solar project in Maharashtra and a 50 MW solar farm project at the outskirts of Hyderabad, for which the land has already been identifie ...