News - solar energy

		Solar Millennium increases share in its subsidiary Solar Millennium Invest AG
		2011/09/08 Solar Millennium streamlines and simplifies group structures, thereby providing more transparency.

		DoE Finalizes Partial Guarantee for $852 Million Loan to Support California CSP Plant
		2011/09/07 “This concentrated solar energy project creates jobs, avoids greenhouse gas emissions and helps strengthen our nation’s renewable energy future,” said Secretary Chu.

		Hogan Lovells Closes $1 Billion in Financing for NextEra Energy Resources CSP Project
		2011/09/06 Hogan Lovells announced today that it closed approximately $1 billion in project financing on behalf of NextEra Energy Resources for the development of a 250 MW utility-scale solar thermal electric generating facility.

		Sopogy Wins APEC Business Innovation Award for Honolulu
		2011/09/05 Sopogy, the world’s leading developer of micro concentrated solar power (MicroCSP) technologies, is the APEC Business Innovation Showcase winner for the City and County of Honolulu.

		Solar Energy May Produce Most of World’s Power by 2060, IEA Says
		2011/09/04 "Photovoltaic and concentrated solar power together can become the major source of electricity," IEA senior analyst Cedric Philibert told Bloomberg.

		Political Will Prevents the Dawning of the Long-Predicted Solar Age
		2011/09/03 Well, it was a man named Augustin Bernard Mouchot, speaking in Paris after he had successfully demonstrated an early industrial application of solar thermal energy - as long ago as 1880.

		Large-Scale Concentrated Solar Power Planned for Australia
		2011/09/02 The Moree Solar Farm development is being led by BP Solar Pty Limited and will consist of approximately 650,000 solar panels and produce enough solar electricity to power approximately 45,000 households.

		World's First Hybrid Solar-Geothermal Energy Plant Underway
		2011/09/01 Enel is in the early stages of developing a similar hybrid Concentrating Solar Power-Geothermal “test plant” in the same location.

		Centrotec acquires concentrated solar thermal power Industrial Solar
		2011/08/30 Industrial Solar’s range of products and services therefore ideally complements the existing range of solar thermal systems and classic heating and climate control technology from the Centrotec subsidiary Wolf.

		China has set a target of creating 1 million kilowatts of concentrated solar power (CSP) by 2015
		2011/08/29 According to the Chinese government's development blueprint for the 2011-2015 period, the country will establish CSP plants in four districts -- Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Gansu, Shinjang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

		A Concentrated Solar Power Developers DNI Dream
		2011/08/28 In an emerging CSP market such as South Africa, one of the many challenges developers face is siting the project based on acquiring accurate Direct Normal Irradiation data.

		Concentrated Solar Thermal Power plants generate power day and night
		2011/08/27 In Europe and the United States, large-scale, concentrating solar thermal power plants generate baseload electricity 24 hours a day, every day.

		Shriram wins build-contract for 50 MW concentrated solar thermal plant in India
		2011/08/26 Shriram EPC has won a 6.4bn rupee ($140m) contract to build a 50MW concentrating solar thermal plant in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.

		Foster Wheeler Awarded Two Solar Steam Generator Contracts in Spain
		2011/08/25 Foster Wheeler AG announced that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded contracts to supply solar steam generator systems to two separate concentrated solar power projects in Spain.

		RAFAA Designs Next Generation Solar Tower for Bright Source Competition
		2011/08/25 Bright Source Energy recently solicited proposals from international firms for the Ivanpah solar plant in California that is currently undergoing construction.

		Solar Millennium Corporate bond repaid as scheduled by date of maturity
		2011/08/25 The third Solar Millennium AG corporate bond amounting to € 20 million, which was issued on 22 August 2006, was repaid in full to investors yesterday.

		First Large Industrial Solar Application in China
		2011/08/25 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending a $100 million loan for an energy efficiency project in Shandong province in the People's Republic of China.

		India's National Solar Mission Promotes Rapid Solar Power Growth
		2011/08/25 By June 2011, 200 MW of grid connected photovoltaic (PV) and 500 MW of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants had been allocated.

		India’s Karnataka invites solar power bids worth 80 MW
		2011/08/25 Under its new solar policy introduced last month, 30 MW of solar thermal and 50 MW of photovoltaic projects will be selected on the basis of the discounts offered by developers on the benchmark tariffs of 0.36 per kWh.

		SkyFuel and Braxenergy Team to Bring Concentrated Solar Power to Brazil
		2011/08/25 SkyFuel and Braxenergy Sign Agreement to Cooperate in Building Concentrating Solar Power Plants in Brazil Using SkyFuel's Award-Winning Parabolic Trough Technology.