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Power your iPad with a portable USB wall charger adapter that can be carried and used with virtually every power outlet. The USB adapter is fully compatible with the Apple iPad’s data cable. The high capacity charger is able to charge the Apple iPad’s battery and provide power at the same time. Dual USB Ports ... more »

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Solar Energy International Steps Up Continuing Ed Series, Online Offerings

Solar Energy International 's Online Campus is celebrating SEI's 20th year of offering renewable energy education for a sustainable future with free webinars, new online course sessions, and $49 short courses.

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The Sector Information Technology Forgot

Information Technology revolutionized the way we buy things (Amazon, eBay), how we get information (Google, Wikipedia, the decline of newspapers), and how we interact with our peers (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn). Yet so far, it has had little transformative impact on energy. Tim Healy, CEO of EnerNOC (ENOC), the world's largest third party provider of Demand Response to utilities and grid operators, thinks that's about to change.

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Torresol: 24/7 Solar?

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While Americans celebrated U.S. history on the Fourth of July yesterday, a company in Spain celebrated an historic moment for the solar industry: Torresol?s 19.9 MW concentrating solar power plant became the first ever to generate uninterrupted electricity for 24 hours straight.

The plant uses a Power Tower design which features a field of 2,650 mirrors that concentrate sunlight onto a boiler in a central receiver tower. The plant also utilizes molten salt as a heat-transfer fluid that allows the plant to generate electricity when there?s no sunlight. Recharge News reported on the milestone:

After commissioning in May, the plant was finally ready to operate at full-blast in late June and benefited from a particularly sunny stretch of weather, according to Diego Ramirez, director of production at Torresol.

?The high performance of the installations coincided with several days of excellent solar radiation, which made it possible for the hot-salt storage tank to reach full capacity,? Ramirez explains.

Torresol says that the plant will provide electricity for about 20 hours each day on average, with numerous days in the summer seeing 24-hours of supply. How does that compare with a similar-sized PV plant? The 21.2 MW Solarpark Calaveron in Spain generates about 40 GWh a year. This smaller 19.9 MW power tower plant will generate about 110 GWh per year.

Yesterday?s news is a big milestone for Power Tower technology, which is still a very nascent technology compared to the more-mature parabolic troughs. There are only a few operating commercial-scale plants around the world, and Torresol?s is the only one with molten salt storage.

Original Article on Climate Progress

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Schneider Electric to supply largest North American solar inverter order in its history

Schneider Electric's Renewable Energies Business has been selected by a major global Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) company to supply photovoltaic inverters throughout 2011. Representing more than 100 MW in total, this is the largest order in Schneider Electric's history in North America and one of the largest ever in the North American market.

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Chinese Solar Companies Trim Q2 Revenues $STP $LDK $TSL

Solar power component manufacturers in China have either trimmed their expected second quarter revenues and shipments or terminated long-term solar wafer contracts, possibly reacting from a sharp decline in prices of key solar parts reported in June.

Chinese polysilicon producer Daqo New Energy has revised its second quarter financial guidance announced on May 9, saying its earnings have been hit hard by price reductions across the photovoltaic supply chain.

The company now expects its total revenue to be around $70 million to $71 million, compared to a prior guidance range of $92 million to $95 million.

"The reduction in revenue guidance is mainly due to less shipment in the downstream product, wafer and module," said Jimmy Lai, chief financial officer of the company.

Daqo will ship less polysilicon in the upcoming quarter, from 950 to 1000 tons in the previous guidance down to 970 tons to 990 tons. Expected solar wafer shipments were also brought down from 7 megawatts to 0.7 MW, followed by the company?s own branded PV modules from 14 MW to 4 MW.

However, expected shipments of subcontracted PV modules for customers in the upcoming quarter were actually raised in the revised financial guidance from 2.5 MW to 8 MW.

Last week, Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., the world?s largest producer of silicon-based solar panels terminated a 10-year solar wafer supply contract with MEMC Singapore Pte. Ltd. Dr. Zhengrong Shi, Suntech's chairman, said the agreement will ?help [the company] benefit from the continuing drop in silicon and wafer prices.?

Ending the contract will reportedly save the Wuxi, China-based company in Jiangsu province about $400 million partly from maximizing its internal wafer output.

Cloudy solar supply chain

Last month, the price of solar-grade polysilicon, the essential raw material for manufacturing solar panels that capture sunlight and convert it to electricity, dropped 28 percent to $53.4 per kilogram month-on-month, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance published on June 17 saying that the price of multicrystalline silicon wafers also slid by 23 percent in June to a record low of $2.39 a piece.

Multicrystalline silicon cell prices were down 15 percent to $0.92 per watt.

Module prices are falling at a slower rate with a 6.5 percent decline in June, bringing crystalline silicon modules to $1.68 per watt. Chinese manufacturers are offering modules at significant discounts, with prices at $1.49/W compared with modules manufactured outside of China priced at $1.79/W.

The research firm solar module prices are now 58 percent lower than in the third quarter of 2008.

Polysilicon prices along with other components began falling during the economic recession last 2009. The prices were a boon for manufacturers like First Solar, whose profits rose because manufacturing costs fell by buying cheaper parts.

First Solar is profiting because its cadmium-telluride solar cells cost less than half that of traditional polysilicon- based cells to manufacture.

In April 2009, the Arizona-based company more than tripled its first quarter profits to $164.6 million, or $1.99 a share, from $46.6 million, or 57 cents a share, a year earlier.

In comparison, SunPower, which manufactures crystalline silicon-based solar panels, saw its profits fall as a result of rising polysilicon prices. Its revenue for the first quarter of 2009 was $214 million compared to revenues of $401 million in the fourth quarter of 2008.

SunPower eventually sold a majority stake in its company to French oil giant Total.

Martin Simonek, solar analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, said in June report that prices will further decline across the solar supply chain since companies no longer supported by subsidies would look for new markets and unload their supply with lower prices.

"Currently the markets are oversupplied with modules, as manufacturers seek to reduce their inventories in markets that are demanding cheap modules because of reductions in subsidies,? said Mr. Simonek.

?Producers are preparing for a painful consolidation that could see several players exit the solar industry," he added.

Original Article on EcoSeed

Source: http://www.solarfeeds.com/ecoseed/17447-chinese-solar-companies-trim-q2-revenues-stp-ldk-tsl

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