Sola Resource Corp. The Company is pleased to announce that its 20,000 tonne bulk sampling and testing program on the diamond-bearing Carolina kimberlite pipe near Espigao d’Oeste in the State of Rondonia, Brazil is progressing very well. The bulk-sampling program is currently focusing upon the outcropping saprolitic horizon of altered kimberlite.
As a result of the [...]
Energy Conversion Devices Inc. will supply solar cell laminates to General Motors Corp. for the world’s largest rooftop power generation system.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The company’s UNI-Solar thin-film flexible solar laminates will be installed this fall at a 2 million-square foot car plant in Figueruelas, Zaragoza, Spain.
The rooftop system will have about [...]
Energy company, S.D.E., which has developed an innovative technology for generating sea wave electricity, has signed an agreement for selling sea wave power plants throughout China. Construction of the power plants will be financed by investors from Hong Kong and China.
Two joint venture companies, formed in Hong Kong by S.D.E and the investors for the [...]
Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. Ltd., which makes solar products, received a contract from Belgium-based Enfinity Management BVBA to supply solar modules.
The agreement, financial terms of which were not disclosed, calls for China-based Yingli to supply 10 megawatts of solar modules, or packages of solar cells.
The contract, which runs from this month through the end [...]
The government is calling off a recently announced moratorium on applications to build solar plants on public lands.
The Bureau of Land Management decision came after public opposition to its original decision.
The BLM wanted to put new applications for solar plants on federal land on hold while reviewing potential environmental impacts from such plants.
That process could [...]
Canadian Solar Inc. signed a a 10-year supply contract with solar wafer maker LDK Solar Co., strengthening a two-year-old tie between the companies.
LDK is expected to ramp up production later this year.
The new supply deal, which is in addition to an agreement signed in October, calls for China-based LDK to supply 800 megawatts of solar [...]
Shares of Evergreen Solar Inc. shot up after the solar panel producer signed two long-term sales contracts.
Evergreen rose $2.06, or 20.1 percent, to close at $12.30.
Lehman Brothers analyst Vishal Shah raised his target price on the stock and predicted his Wall Street colleagues will soon raise their earnings forecasts for the company as well. That [...]
The Atlantic City Convention Center plans to install what it says will be the largest single-building solar energy project in the U.S.
Under a 20-year agreement, the New Jersey facility will hire Pepco Holdings’ Pepco Energy Services to install the solar panels on 290,000 square feet — or about two-thirds — of its main roof.
The center [...]
