Although the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is set to maintain its status as global leader of the wind turbine tower market through to 2020, its value will decrease from $9.62 billion in 2015 to $5.5 billion by the end of the forecast... more
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Toshiba Launches Low-input Current Drive, Rail-to-Rail Output Gate-drive Photocouplers |
| published: 2016-09-23 15:57 |
Toshiba Electronics Europe has introduced a series of low-input current drive, rail-to-rail output, gate-drive photocouplers. With a threshold input current of 2mA (max), half the 4mA (max) of Toshiba’s existing products[1], the n... more
Asia Clean Capital, Ten K Solar Announce Exclusive Distribution Agreement for Chinese Market |
| published: 2016-09-23 14:57 |
Asia Clean Capital ("ACC") and Ten K Solar ("Ten K") announced earlier this week an exclusive distribution agreement for the Mainland China market. Under the terms of the Agreement ACC will devel... more
Pattern Energy to Acquire Interest in Armow Wind Power Facility |
| published: 2016-09-23 14:09 |
Pattern Energy Group Inc. ("Pattern Energy") announced on September 22nd its commitment to acquire a 90 MW interest in the operating 180 MW Armow Wind power facility in Ontario, Canada from Pattern Energy Group LP ("Pattern Develo... more
Azure Power to Launch its Initial Public Offering |
| published: 2016-09-23 13:34 |
Azure Power Global Limited ('Azure Power') announced on September 22nd the launch of its initial public offering of 6,818,182 equity shares, including 5,863,637 equity shares to be sold by Azure Power and 954,545 shares to be so... more
Low Module Prices Cause Impact Globally, SolarWorld Lays off 500 Workers |
| published: 2016-09-22 18:14 |
PV manufacturer SolarWorld was reported to lay off around 500 temporary workers from German manufacturing facilities. EnergyTrend regards this event as a consequence of the significant price drop in PV modules and reduction... more
Apple’s 50MW Arizona PV Plant Ready to Sell Power |
| published: 2016-09-22 17:31 |
Apple became a legal independent power producer as soon as U.S.’s federal energy regulator approved the company’s application to wholesale electricity. This week, it was reported that Apple has constructed a 50MW solar powe... more
LERRI Solar Expands Mono-si Capacity to 5GW |
| published: 2016-09-22 16:23 |
LERRI Solar Technology, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xi'an LONGi, announced that its Taizhou facility officially entered mass production phases on September 6, 2016. The new facility increases LERRI’s mono-si cell and modul... more
SolarReserve to Develop 200MW Solar Farms in South Africa |
| published: 2016-09-22 15:21 |
The U.S. Trade and Development Agency awarded a grant to SolarReserve South Africa (Proprietary) Limited to advance their "Urban Solar Farms" initiative in South Africa; a pioneering study into large metropolitan municipali... more
Largest Solar Project Owned by Minnesota Co-ops Now Complete |
| published: 2016-09-22 15:15 |
The largest solar array in Minnesota owned by electric cooperatives is now generating electricity for members of Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association (WH).
The Dickinson Solar Project is a collaborative effort between ... more
