Suntech Power Holdings, the world’s largest producer of solar panels, announced that South East Asia’s largest silicon photovoltaic power plant, a 44MW project called ‘Sunny Bangchak’, achieved grid connection on September 4. The project, located in Bang Pa-In, Ayutthaya, forty kilometers outside Bangkok, Thailand, is owned by Bangchak Public Petroleum (BCP), utilizes Suntech’s high performance solar panels ...

JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd., a leading global solar power product manufacturer, today announced that it has won a bid from China Power International New Energy Holding Ltd. to supply 40 MW of photovoltaic (PV) modules for two PV power plant projects in Baiyin and Wuwei cities in Gansu Province, China. JinkoSolar will deliver 163,200 high-efficiency solar panels to the two projects. The locations were speci ...

China Sunergy Co., Ltd. is a specialized solar cell and module manufacturer, who today announced that the Company had shipped 72KW multi-crystalline solar modules earlier this month to Carillion Construction Ltd, a UK-headquartered multinational company dedicated to sustainable and green energy projects. China Sunergy’s solar modules would be installed in a trial project of Emrill, in Dubai, United Arab Emi ...

India is set to invest US$84 million to build the first of 60 solar cities where much of the electricity will be provided by solar installations. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) said that Agartala, the capital of the Tripura state in northeast India, has been selected as the pilot for this scheme. MNRE is expected to bear 90% of the cost of transforming Tripura into a solar city with the bal ...

China is once again facing threats from the global community of tariffs as punishment for undercutting foreign rivals. Having already had tariffs imposed by the USA on the export of wind turbine components, the EU is issuing similar warnings to Chinese solar companies. An ongoing investigation by the European Union claims that producers in Europe may be victims of unfair price undercutting for solar panels ...

Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) has won the right to build a 20MW project near Canberra in Australia. FRV,which is based in the Netherlands, are involved in the complete management of solar energy facilities, and have been backed by U.S. energy investor Denham Capital Management LP. FRV will participate in the Australian Capital Territory’s feed-in tariff program, which rewards generators of solar power ...

German Q-Cells was once the world’s largest manufacturer of silicon solar technology. However, due to the financial market crash and the rise of well-financed Chinese solar cell makers, the company was forced to declare insolvency in April of this year. After some fierce competition from various companies, Q-Cells has now been sold to the South Korean company, Hanwha. The creditors of the German company agr ...

Last month, India suffered the biggest electrical blackout in the world. Despite causing widespread chaos, such an incident will not have come as a huge surprise to the local population. Blackouts, brownouts and chronic shortages of power happen with an alarming frequency, with a huge percentage of the country without power at all. India relies primarily on fossil fuel power plants for the production of ele ...

An escalating solar trade war may be leaving most Chinese companies reticent to invest in the lucrative American market, but two South Korean corporations are launching large-scale U.S. -based operations. In May this year, The US Department of Commerce (DOC) investigated Chinese companies for ‘dumping’ Chinese solar panels into the US market by selling them below cost price. The DOC subsequently enforced a ...

China-based JinkoSolar Holding Co is expanding operations with a new office opening in Singapore, which is quickly emerging as a growing hub of solar energy research and development. The regional headquarters will supervise sales, logistics, financing, project development and customer service across the country. JinkoSolar Chairman David Li notes, “Singapore boasts an established logistics infrastructure, m ...