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Boston MA (SPX) Aug 12, 2010 In a landmark event for the energy industry, four major industry players have joined forces to form the Hybrid Energy Consortium, focused on the design of next generation utility-scale commercial integrated solar combined cycle ("ISCC") power plants. The founding members of the consortium are QGEN of the USA, FLABEG Group and Schlaich Bergermann und Partner Sohne GmbH, both of Germany and JGC Corporation of Japan - all known as innovators in their respective specialties in the energy industry. HEC's mission will be to accelerate the design and development of ISCC plants. HEC's ISCC plants start by integrating state-of-the-art concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies into conventional gas- and coal-fired plant designs to generate electricity and desalinate water. As a next step, HEC will test new solar field designs and components in ISCC configurations in its own technology demonstration plants to be located in North Africa and North America. Upon the successful development of its commercial designs, HEC plans to provide its design, procurement and construction services to project developers around the world. ISCC plants will accelerate the integration of solar energy into the electricity generation mix. In ISCC plants solar energy is used as a complement to fossil fuels leveraging the gas- or coal-fired plant infrastructure and eliminating the need for the government subsidies currently being granted to stand-alone concentrating solar or photovoltaic (PV) power plants.
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KYOCERA To Start Production At New Solar Cell PlantKyoto, Japan (SPX) Aug 10, 2010 Kyocera has announced that it will begin full-scale production at its new Yasu solar cell manufacturing facility in Yasu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. The new plant, which was completed in March of this year and has already finished production line testing, is the largest of the company's domestic manufacturing facilities, and will be producing the company's highly-efficient multicrystall ... read more |
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