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Yingli Signs Panel Supply Agreement for PV Projects in the Dominican Republic 2016-04-26

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Ltd. today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Yingli Europe has entered into an exclusivity agreement with an European EPC Partner to supply solar panels to PV projects that are expected to be developed and constructed in the Dominican Republic. According to the exclusivity agreement, Yingli Europe expects to supply up to 200MW of solar panels to the Par...

Thailand will determine 600 mw photovoltaic power station project planning this year. 2016-04-15

October 26, 2015, in the summit "hug Thailand photovoltaic industry, sharing the future" was held in Bangkok . Thailand Potential Plus company Rungsee Suibnugarn introduces Thailand will determine the 600 mw photovoltaic power station project planning this year. And it will be distributed respectively, in the northern of 5 mw, in the middle of 138 mw, in the west of 159mv and south of 200 mw, east...

ISE Group plan to build 27 MW solar PV plant in Japan 2016-04-01

The construction of the Nanao PV power plant has just begun, with commercial operations planned in the first quarter of 2017. Over the first 20 years of operation, the PV plant is expected to produce approximately 29 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of solar power annually, which is enough to serve the needs of more than 8,900 Japanese households in the region. Constructed on 25 h...

Philippines installed 122MW of solar in 2015 2016-03-18

The Philippines installed a total of 122MW of grid-connected solar PV in 2015, taking its tally to 144MW, up from 22MW the previous year, according to the latest figures from the Philippines Department of Energy (DOE). As of 31 December 2015, there were 124 grid-connected projects in the pipeline that had been awarded under the country's renewable energy (RE) law, totalling 4,016MW. Meanwhile, the...

IHS expects 2016 global solar energy market is expected to exceed 69 gigawatts (gw) It points out that the 2015 ,the global photovoltaic installations are 59 gigawatts (gw) with a increased by 35% com 2016-03-11

It points out that the 2015 ,the global photovoltaic installations are 59 gigawatts (gw) with a increased by 35% compared with 2014 capacity . this year in 2016, it is expected to make a big breakthrough. The main market in 2016 will include the United States, India and China. by the end of 2016 cumulative pv installations will surpass 310 gigawatts (gw), five countries (C...

Chinese solar panel makers shift to Thailand for growth 2016-02-26

A slew of factors is persuading companies to expand abroad to access the global market Rising costs and steep anti-dumping duties in the United States and Europe, coupled with a desire to expand overseas, are increasingly driving major Chinese solar panel makers' new investments away from the domestic market, the world's largest, to neighboring Thailand. Despite slowing economic grow...

Solar Power Capacity In India May Hit 20 GW By March 2017 2016-02-01

by Saurabh Mahapatra India is likely to have an operational solar power capacity of close to 20 GW by March 2017 if projects under the states’ and central solar power policies go ahead as per the schedule. According to Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of Coal, Power and Renewable Energy, the country’s solar energy capacity is expected increase four-fold during the next fisca...

BNEF: Germany hits new low in clean energy investment while world hits record 2016-01-22

A new report out from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (London, New York) shows 2015 clean energy investment numbers hit an all-time global record with USD 329 billion spent. The amount of renewables installed also hit a record with 64 GW of wind; 57 GW of solar PV globally. However clean energy investment i...