This is the first investment made by a Japanese company in CSP solar energy projects. JGC Corporation is to enter into a partnership with Abengoa Solar for owning two CSP power plants, each with 50 MW of installed capacity, in El Carpio (Córdoba), Spain. Abengoa is retaining 74% of ownership in the projects, and remains the operator of both facilities.
LDK Solar announced the company has expanded its vertical manufacturing operations by completing installation of the company's latest production line for solar cells in Xinyu City, China. At the moment the new production line has an annual capacity of 60 MW, but this is to double to 120 MW by the end of Q3 this year.
LDK Solar's growth strategy includes the goal of achieving about 50% of the company's solar cell needs from in-house production capacity. This way, the company hopes to reduce the cost of solar modules, which will create a significant advantage for the company in the global solar energy market.
[source: LDK Solar]
Phoenix Solar announced an agreement with green energy slovakia, an investor partnership between German and Slovakian investors. The solar park will be located about 80 km from Bratislava, the country's capital.
Phoenix Solar has already started with preparations for the construction phase of the project. Some 29,000 modules will be installed at the power plant.
[source: Phoenix Solar]
SunPower Corporation is to supply its solar energy technology for installations at several US government properties which include DoE's NREL, General Services Administration, the Navy and Air Force. These orders will total in no less than 20 MW of solar power capacity installations.
Over the course of these projects, SunPower will employ about 1000 people temporarily.
[source: SunPower]
AEG Power Solutions announced a deal with a European customer for solar inverters, monitoring systems and other electrical equipment for solar PV power plants, totalling in 260 MW of capacity. Starting from December this year, over the course of twelve months, AEG will provide balance of electrical system for 13 PV power plants, each having 20 MW of installed capacity.
AEG will supply, among other things, its PV.250 and PV.500 solar inverters, with advanced supervision and monitoring solutions.
[source: AEG Power Solutions]
Chinese company Yingli Green Energy (aka Yingli Solar) announced a deal with OCI Chemical Corporation, under which OCI will supply Yingli with polysilicon for a period of five years. The dealy, valued at about USD 442 million, will be executed from 2011 to 2015, enabling Yinglu to have a steady inflow of polysilicon for its growing manufacturing base.
[source: Yingli Green Energy]
M+W Group has established a new subsidiary – M+W Solar – headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. The new business unit will deal with all solar development activities, ranging from silicon production, to the development, planning and realization of solar PV power projects.
So far, M+W Group has designed and built PV fabs to account for more than 7.7 GW of installed PV capacity worldwide. To top of the newly formed business unit, the company has just been awarded the Solar Industry Award 2010, at the PVSEC Trade Fair in Valencia, Spain.
SCHOTT Solar and Solland Solar (Netherlands) announced a strategic partnership agreement, under which the two companies will license technology, perform joint R&D activities and jointly produce back-contacted solar modules. One of the bigger goals of the companies is to achieve serial production of solar modules with up 16% efficiencies by 2011.
Andasol 1 parabolic trough power plant.
Solar Millenium has completed the sale of stakes in the Ibersol power plant to Ferrostaal, which now owns 50% of the project. This represents one of the final stages before the beginning of construction at what's to be Spain's fourth parabolic trough solar power plant project.
Following an 8.5 MW supply deal recently, MiaSolé announced another supply agreement with juwi Solar. This time, the long-term agreement will result in 600 MW of solar modules (CIGS), to be delivered over the duration of the period under the agreement. The first shipment of 50 MW will be delivered in 2011.
juwi Solar is pursuing a rapid growth strategy, to take advantage of the growing solar energy market worldwide.
[source: MiaSolé, image: juwi Solar]
