Happy Watts – The initial 5 megawatts of a 45-megawatt photovoltaic array on a 200-acre site in Moshav Sde Zvi in the Negev desert being built by Israeli company Sunday Energy Limited is already underway, the Globes reported. via Ecoseed>>
Happy Watts – Deutsche Bank completes 250-kW solar PV system at Piscataway facility which will reduce carbon emissions by 143 metric tons annually. via Deutsche Bank>>
Happy Watts – (www.happywatts.com) The Renewable Energy Association (REA) has kicked-off a 30 month project to analyse the barriers to installing and connecting solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems, it announced today (September 15). via New Energy Focus and EPVIA>>
SunSupermarket – Demand is the new name of the game in the PV market, and project developers are calling the shots. How project developers react to the economic forces impacting the PV industry will determine the market’s near-term future. Understanding the constraints facing project developers is the only way for companies across the PV supply chain to weather the impending shakeout. Faced with limited access to costly capital and waning incentives in major markets, project developers are demanding higher returns from fewer projects. They are passing these pressures on to manufacturers, forcing them to bring down module prices by 25 percent in 2009. Fewer projects lead to slackening demand – projected to increase by only 13 percent in 2009 – and, ultimately, to an industry-wide 15 percent revenue collapse this year alone. Go to report>>
Sun Supermarket – There´s been a number of year-end solar reviews that have done an admirable job of summing up the market in 2008 (Greentech Media had a nice article here) while providing a view on industry growth for 2009. From a financing perspective it seems fairly obvious that the liquidity crisis will have an adverse effect on new project development worldwide for months and quarters to come. Go to article >>
Sun Supermarket – (www.sunsupermarket.com) One of the great things about solar cells manufactured on a flexible substrate, such as Nanosolar’s, is their versatility: they can be assembled into all sorts of forms and shapes of solar panel products, and — by only changing the back-end assembly — panels of different form factors and packages can be introduced rapidly and responsively to meet dynamic market requirements. Go to article >>
Sun Supermarket – Installers of solar energy systems that have purchased an estimated 1.7 gigawatts worth of panels this year were able to use only 800 megawatts of the goods before the Spanish government shrank a lucrative solar incentives program in September, said Paula Mints, principal solar analyst at Navigant Consulting at the Thin Film Solar Summit in San Francisco Tuesday. Click here to read article>>
Sun Supermarket – Japan’s Sharp Corp. and Italian electricity utility company Enel SpA have teamed up to set up several solar-power plants over the next few years as a part of a European joint venture. Both companies will begin the joint venture in the spring of 2009 to operate as an independent power producer and will develop a number of photovoltaic (PV) power plants with a total capacity of 189 MW by the end of 2012. Click here >> (Business Week)
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