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Gamesa installed a record 3,280 MW of new capacity in 2011, 27.8% more than in 2010. This figure tops the company's former annual installation record of 3,134 MW, registered in 2008, and lifts the total installed in the last 17 ye...  more

As a result of increasing environmental, health and safety standards and the investments required to support them, Johnson Controls, Inc., (NYSE: JCI) will implement an 8 percent price increase on lead-acid batteries sold in the U...  more

MAGE SOLAR, part of the globally operating MAGE GROUP, announced that MAGE POWERTEC PLUS modules are PID-resistant. Tests at Underwriters Laboratories (UL) in Neu-Isenburg, Germany, confirmed this. Potential induced degradation (P...  more

NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, the competitive energy subsidiary of NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NEE), and First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq:FSLR) today announced the completion of NextEra Energy Resources' acquisition of two solar photovol...  more

SCHOTT Solar PV, Inc. announced the launch of SCHOTT Solar® PRO Design Services. The new service from SCHOTT Solar enables installers to reduce costs and time for developing plans, streamline the permitting process and solve compl...  more

SoloPower, a San Jose, California-based manufacturer of flexible thin film solar cells and modules, announced that its next generation panel has achieved an aperture area efficiency of 13.4%, a record for flexible copper, indium, ...  more

BYD PV modules have successfully passed the climatic tests of Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE. Three BYD PV modules have relatively passed the Enhanced UV-Test (six times standard requirement), the thermal cyclin...  more

Finavera Wind Energy Inc. (“Finavera” or the “Company”)(TSX-V: FVR) today announced it has received final TSX Venture Exchange approval for the $200,000 convertible promissory note (the “Note”) announced February 24, 2012. The Not...  more

First Solar broke ground on construction of a 250 kW (AC) solar photovoltaic (PV) system at The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation's Taliesin West campus. The groundbreaking marks the launch of Energizing Taliesin West™, a pioneering i...  more

The G10X-4.5 MW wind turbine, installed by Gamesa near Alaiz (Navarra, Spain), on 11 March set a new record for energy output by a wind turbine in Spain. The turbine generated electricity for 23.24 equivalent hours yesterday at no...  more