In a double dose of new accomplishments, SRS Energy’s Sole Power Tile not only received Intertek ETL listing for UL 1703 certification, but was also recognized on the California Energy Commissions’’ (CEC) list for “Eligible SB1 Guideline Compliant Photovoltaic Modules".
In the closing of Series C funding, SunRun received $55 million for their renewable energy alternative for homeowner’s electricity. The financing round was led by Sequoia Capital and included Accel Partners and Foundation Capital. Series C funding followed SunRun and PG&E’s $100 million tax equity project financing agreement for SunRun installation in over 3,500 homes.
Richard Swanson (pictured), CTO and cofounder of SunPower, is the 2010 recipient of the IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa medal, which is sponsored by the Federation of Electric Power Companies, Japan, and the Semiconductor Research Foundation, Japan. The medal was awarded for Swanson’s concept and commercialization of high-efficiency point-contact crystalline-silicon solar cell technology.
Tigo Energy has signed with Copia Energy, a Japanese distributor, for the global distribution of Tigo’s Maximizer Solution. The technology, introduced in 2009, is said to provide up to a 20% increase in energy production, active management capabilities, and safety for utility, commercial and residential PV solar arrays. Orders for the Maximizer will be available through Copia’s catalog and website.
Siliken Renewable Energy and Pacific Blue Energy have come together to bid a local utility for the development of a 15MW solar farm on 154.3 acres near Flagstaff, Arizona. The site, known as the Sunshine Solar Farm, is located in Coconino County and has the capacity to support 20MW of solar electricity generation from fixed tilt or single axis tracking systems.
The $32,600,000 sales contract signed by Universal Solar Technology and CEZ Group will see the delivery of 20MW of monocrystalline solar modules to CEZ by the end of this year. CEZ is one of the largest electricity producers in the Czech Republic.
Working together, Dainippon Screen Manufacturing and Gifu University have produced a new technology that analyzes the characteristics of amorphous silicon films for thin-film silicon solar cell panels. The result from the research of the new technology is being used in spectroscopic ellipsometric film thickness measurement systems by Screen. Product creation is expected to be completed by this fall.
Bloo Solar’s Solar Brush wafer development production has begun and with the hopes to bring the commercial modules to market in 2012, the company has chosen CVD Equipment Corp. to develop and manufacture the equipment for the solar module.
Yingli Green Energy Americas, a subsidiary of Yingli Green Energy Holding Company, has signed a strategic PV module supply agreement with DC Power Systems. The agreement will last through the end of this year and is one of the largest supply agreements in the US for Yingli this year and the largest between the two companies to date.
Under the agreement signed by SunEdison and LaSalle Investment Management, SunEdison will finance, build, own, operate, monitor and maintain eight PV solar energy systems, which total a capacity of 2.1MW. The roof-top installations will be located on LaSalle facilities with the Ontario Power Authority purchasing the energy under the Ontario Feed-In Tariff program.
