Solar ♦ news digest
The two projects are owned and operated by subsidiaries of NextEra Energy Resources’ Canadian subsidiary, NextEra Energy Canada, ULC, and provide enough power to serve about 6,440 homes. Each year the solar generation is expected to help avoid nearly 45,000 tons of CO2, which is the equivalent of removing nearly 8,600 cars from the road every year for the life of the projects. The power is being sold to the Ontario Power Authority via long-term contracts under its Renewable Energy Standard Offer Program (RESOP).
“We are pleased to have completed the acquisition of our initial Canadian solar projects. This acquisition is consistent with our strategy to add fully contracted renewable assets to our portfolio,” says NextEra Energy Resources’ Senior Vice President of Development Mike O’Sullivan. “Solar power will help promote a clean-energy economy in Ontario and reduce its dependence on fossil fuels.”
“The completion of the St. Clair projects helps Ontario meet its economic and renewable energy goals,” adds Peter Carrie, First Solar Vice President for Business Development, Canada. “The projects employed 800 construction workers, including local First Nations workers, and are the first large-scale solar facilities permitted under the Province’s Renewable Energy Approval process.”
MiaSolé awarded $55 million to expand its CIGS technology
The funding will allow the company to focus on building the commercial side of its business with both traditional glass-on- glass and flexible products
The California-based firm has secured the funding to drive its next wave of growth in the solar industry.
“This funding comes at a time when the company has begun production of 14% modules with the industry’s lowest capex per watt, which is now under 50 cents. We are pleased that investors have demonstrated a powerful endorsement of our strategy and growing success in the market,” says John Carrington, CEO of MiaSolé.
“This additional investment will allow us to take the company to the next level and we are focused on aggressively building the commercial side of our business with both our traditional glass-on-glass and flexible products. We have demonstrated technology leadership and are now focused on commercial performance: our investors have responded to that.”
MiaSolé says it is one of the first companies to unlock the potential for CIGS thin-film solar technology, increasing panel efficiency by more than 30% from 2011 to 2012.
A roadmap of how the company hopes to progress is below. Miasolé’s panel efficiency roadmap
To date, MiaSolé has installed over 55 MW of solar modules in a wide range of global projects across North America, Europe and Asia. Its technology is also being applied to a high efficiency flexible rolled roof-top product that will address the fast-growing commercial and residential markets.
“MiaSolé is entering into an important time in its history,” says Stephan Dolezalek, Managing Director at Vantage Point Capital Partners, on behalf of the MiaSolé board of directors. “It has the right strategy, the right technology and the right team to deliver a new benchmark in solar for cost, performance and capital efficiency with the enormous benefit of being able to compete in both the traditional glass and flexible panel markets.”
“MiaSolé’s ability to deliver 14 percent in production with demonstrated capability to achieve 17 percent further emphasises the progress we are continuously making against our roadmap,” says Carrington. “We are excited about the road ahead and our ability to deliver the true promise of thin film technology - enabling the lowest levelised cost of electricity for our customers.”
Oxford Instruments to host Nanoscale plasma processing seminar in Shanghai
Following its successful Seminar hosted with the IOS-CAS in Beijing last year, the firm held a one day Seminar on 19th March, 2012
This one day event, being held the day before Semicon China 2012, will feature talks by a number of invited guest speakers, specialists from China, Taiwan and Europe, in addition to Process and Applications experts from Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology.
These academic and industrial experts will discuss topics including Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), Photovoltaics (PV), Deep Silicon Etch and Ion Beam technologies during the full
April/May 2012
www.compoundsemiconductor.net 155
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96 |
Page 97 |
Page 98 |
Page 99 |
Page 100 |
Page 101 |
Page 102 |
Page 103 |
Page 104 |
Page 105 |
Page 106 |
Page 107 |
Page 108 |
Page 109 |
Page 110 |
Page 111 |
Page 112 |
Page 113 |
Page 114 |
Page 115 |
Page 116 |
Page 117 |
Page 118 |
Page 119 |
Page 120 |
Page 121 |
Page 122 |
Page 123 |
Page 124 |
Page 125 |
Page 126 |
Page 127 |
Page 128 |
Page 129 |
Page 130 |
Page 131 |
Page 132 |
Page 133 |
Page 134 |
Page 135 |
Page 136 |
Page 137 |
Page 138 |
Page 139 |
Page 140 |
Page 141 |
Page 142 |
Page 143 |
Page 144 |
Page 145 |
Page 146 |
Page 147 |
Page 148 |
Page 149 |
Page 150 |
Page 151 |
Page 152 |
Page 153 |
Page 154 |
Page 155 |
Page 156 |
Page 157 |
Page 158 |
Page 159 |
Page 160 |
Page 161 |
Page 162 |
Page 163 |
Page 164 |
Page 165 |
Page 166 |
Page 167 |
Page 168 |
Page 169 |
Page 170 |
Page 171 |
Page 172 |
Page 173 |
Page 174 |
Page 175