Mannington Township has approved Lincoln Renewable Energy's planning application for its 10MW Cedar Solar farm in Salem County, New Jersey. Lincoln Renewable plan to start work at the 129-acre site in early 2011, with construction costs estimated at US$60 million.
Manfred Bächler has resigned from his position as Phoenix Solar's chief technology officer. Bächler will also be stepping down from the Phoenix Solar executive board, citing personal reasons for his decision.
SunPower has won the right to design and build a 1MW PV system near Tucson, Arizona. The ground-mounted facility, which is scheduled to be completed in March 2011, will double the city of Tucson's solar capacity and is to be built on 10 acres of recovered agricultural land owned by the city's water department.
Canadian Solar Solutions and SkyPower have signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement, which will see the latter commission two solar parks in Ontario, with a nameplate capacity of 18.5MW. The 10.5MW Napanee and 8.5MW Thunder Bay facilities, which are scheduled to be completed by the middle of next year, will generate around 19 million KWh in their first year of operation and a further 400 million kWh over the following 20.
Astronergy has unveiled plans to build the world's largest single-building solar system. The grid-connected 10MW system, which will generate 9.8 million kWh per annum, is to be integrated into the new Hangzhou East Railway Station in China at an estimated cost of RMB 270 million.
Scheuten Solar has finished work on three turnkey PV systems for Italian furniture manufacturer Natuzzi SpA. The rooftop facilities in Santeramo in Colle, Matera and Laterza consist of approximately 14,000 panels, took two-and-a-half months to complete and will reduce Natuzzi's annual CO2 emissions by 3400 tonnes.
REC Solar has agreed a contract with Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market to install roof-mounted solar systems on nine Arizona stores. Installation of the systems, which will generate more than 410kW of energy and produce around 620,000kWh annually, is scheduled to start in March 2011.
SunPower and Kern Community College District have opened a 1.1MW solar power system at Bakersfield College. The system, which will supply one-third of the college’s electricity, took five months to build and features a 3.1-acre parking lot canopy structure with nearly 3,700 PV panels.
SolarEdge Technologies has chosen One Network to market and install its PowerBoxes, PV monitoring portal and three-phase solar inverters. One Network has installed 7MW of PV and tracking equipment in France in 2010 and hopes its agreement with SolarEdge will see it break the 10MW barrier next year.
Unirac has been awarded the ISO 9001:2008 International Organization for Standardization certification for its quality management system. The year-long certification process, which involved internal and external audits across the business and customer support organizations, provides Unirac with international recognition for its attempts to continually monitor and improve its management structure.
