Solar thermal magazine February 2014 | Page 5 of 32
LONDON, UK (GlobalData), 25 February 2014 – The Asia-Pacific (APAC) solar photovoltaic (PV) module market value is forecast to show modest growth by the end of next year, jumping from $6.7 billion in 2012 to $8.6 billion by 2015, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 7.9%, says a new report from research and…
Shanghai, February, 2014 — JinkoSolar Holding Co. has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Premium Energy Co. Ltd to supply photovoltaic modules to the Swiss Embassy in Tokyo, Japan. This will be the first clean energy project constructed on the Swiss Embassy in Japan. According to the terms of the agreement, JinkoSolar…
PITTSBURGH, Feb 2014 – PPG Industries industrial coatings business has introduced POWERCRON EPIC™ electrocoats (e-coats), a line of next-generation, cationic-epoxy products that will be used for the first time in North America by MetoKote Corp., Lima, Ohio, a key PPG partner. Powercron EPIC e-coats offer several performance and environmental advantages over competing products because they…
Christian Steinberg has been appointed as Solarpraxis MENA LLC’s new sales director. The company is a joint venture between Berlin-based Solarpraxis AG, a knowledge service provider for renewable energy, and Z-One Holding, which comprises six solar companies in the MENA region. Solarpraxis MENA LLC provides expertise and services in the fields of engineering, conferences and…
PALO ALTO, California. The Electric Power Research Institute has launched a study on the transformation of the electric power grid. The rapid rise of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) — such as rooftop solar panels and high tech microgrids — could change the structure of the electric grid. Yet even as these technologies rise rapidly, very…
PITTSBURGH, Feb. , 2014 – PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) flat glass business has received $312,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a dynamically responsive infrared (IR) window coating that will block heat in the summer to reduce air-conditioning costs and transmit solar heat in the winter to reduce heating costs. The funding…
Starting into its fifth year, the SMEThermal has established itself as Europe’s leading international industry conference on the solar thermal sector. More than 130 decision-makers from 20 countries attended the one-day meeting that opened in Berlin on February 18th, organized by Solarpraxis AG, a Berlin-based knowledge service provider specialized in the renewable energy sector. Solar…
Getting the blues is rarely a desirable experience — unless you’re a solar cell, that is. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin have together developed a new, inexpensive material that has the potential to capture and convert solar energy — particularly from the bluer…
IBM has unveiled eleven new servers that meet stringent version 2.0 guidelines now in effect under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR® program. A virtual explosion of data, estimated at 2.5 quintillion bytes a day and growing, is driving up energy costs in data centers. Qualifying criteria for the new ENERGY STAR rating —…
Trina Solar expands their PV cell manufacturing capacity by entering into an agreement with Shenzhen S.C. New Energy Technology Corporation to acquire a majority stake in Shenzhen S.C.’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Hubei Hongyuan PV Science and Technology Co., Ltd.,a specialized PV cell producer located in Xiantao, Hubei Province, China. Trina Solar will hold a 51% stake in…
