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International NEWS Kyocera to supply 34 solar farms in Thailand Kyocera supplies 1 million modules with a total capacity of 204 MW for a large-scale solar power project in Thailand. In the context of the project “Solar Farms”, the Bangkok-based company Solar Power Co. Ltd. is installing 34 ground-mounted systems with a capacity of 6 MW each in the north-east of Thai- land, a report from Kyocera says. The modules are being supplied by the Japanese PV manufacturer. The Provincial Electricity Authority, Bangkok, will sell the gener­ ated electricity to private consumers and business customers. In total, the project will cover the energy demand of 170,000 Thai households with an average annual consumption of 1,800 kWh each. According to the company, “Solar Farms” is cur- rently the largest solar power project in Thailand.

One of the 34 solar farms in Northeast Thailand Photo: Kyocera

First Solar cooperates with China California’s new governor to increase Guangdong Nuclear solar installations

First Solar and China Guangdong Nuclear Power want to In his inaugural address, New Californian Governor Edmund jointly develop a 30 MW solar farm as the first stage of a G. Brown Jr. pledged to continue on Schwarzenegger’s large-scale solar power station in Inner Mongolia. quest to increase solar installations in the state. He declared that by The solar power station will be built in the vicinity of the city of 2020 he wants to add 20,000 MW of renewable energy capacity. Ordos. In Beijing, First Solar and the Guangdong Nuclear Power With Governor Schwarzenegger’s term coming to an end in Cali- subsidiary Solar Energy Development have signed a declaration of fornia, its newly-elected governor, Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr. was intent. This covers the development and installation of phase 1 of sworn in the first week of January. According to the Solar Home & the solar power station: a demonstration system with a capacity of Business Journal, Governor Brown’s goal to add 20,000 MW to the 30 MW. The solar subsidiary of Guangdong Nuclear Power will be electrical grid is an aggressive target, but one that keeps in line with the majority shareholder, builder and operator of the power sta- Schwarzenegger’s projections. Currently, the state’s Energy Com- tion. First Solar will supply the modules and give advice in the re- mission has licensed planned solar power systems with a total ca- alisation of the project. pacity of 4,100 MW. Ordos is set to be a pilot project for American-Chinese coope­ In his address, Governor Brown – who previously had served as ration in the field of renewable energies. In the past, the Chinese governor of the state from 1975 to 1983 – said: “As Californians we were frequently confronted with complaints from Washington that can be proud that our state leads the rest of the country in our com- they regarded photovoltaics primarily as an export product and mitment to new forms of energy and energy efficiency. I have set a walled off their own, rather small PV market against overseas sup- goal of 20,000 megawatts of renewable energy by 2020 and I intend pliers. to meet it by the appointments I make and the actions they take.” According to an agreement between First Solar and the local Governor Brown affirms that he will work with business leaders government in Ordos, the large-scale Ordos project will be ex- around the state to ensure that his goal is met in the next nine years, panded to a capacity of 2 GW by 2020. By the end of 2010, the so- asserting: “I will meet not only with the leaders of energy companies lar division of Guangdong Nuclear Power had installed a total PV but with executives from a broad range of California business and in- capacity of 20 MW, reports China Daily. The construction work for dustry to work on common problems and break down barriers that the demonstration power plant is scheduled to begin this year. hold us back.”

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Spain restricts support for PV Italy approaches 2 GW in 2010

From 2011 onwards, the Spanish government has put a cap on The Italian PV market made strong advances in the last the number of kWh of solar electricity for which a higher feed- quarter of 2010 – to 975 MW of new installations. This in tariff will be paid. As the commercial law firm Rödl & Partner points was reported by market researchers from iSupply, San Francisco. out, the number of hours of production for which the higher tariff ac- On the basis of interviews with project developers they have calcu- cording to Royal Decree (RD) 661/2007 applies will be capped for three lated a level of new installations which doubles the cumulative re- years. Furthermore, an electricity transmission fee of 50 €-ct/MWh has sults of the first three quarters. For the complete year the Italian PV been introduced, which has to be paid to the grid operators. These are market thus achieved 1.9 GW according to the figures. On the ba- the provisions of the RD 14/2010 published on 23rd December 2010. sis of the current order book, iSupply predicts a doubling of the in- By these regulations, the government aims to reduce the so-called stalled capacity next year compared with 2010. tariff deficit in Spain by € 4.6 billion over the next three years. The market has benefited from the feed-in tariff regulations in The limits to the subsidisation of electricity from PV are deter- the second Conto d’energia, explains iSupply. At system prices of mined by the location in one of the five zones defined by RD 2,500 to 2,800 €/kW a return on capital of 15 to 18 % is currently 315/2006 as well as by the type of the installation: non-tracking, sin- possible in Italy. After a slack period in the New Year, the Italian gle-axis or two-axis tracking. In the case of non-tracking installations, PV market is likely to get going again within a few weeks rather up to 1,250 h/a will be supported. For single-axis tracking systems, than a few months, according to the analysis. the figure is 1,644 h/a, and for two-axis tracking systems it is 1,707 iSupply says that the most significant risk factor that might h/a. The limitation will be in force from 1st January 2011 until 31st De- prevent their prognosis from being realised is the risk that the de- cember 2013. gression of the feed-in tariff is brought forward. The increased tariff will be paid only for a limited number of produc- tion hours. “The excess solar electricity will be purchased at the market price, but it is not clear when and on which market this purchase will take place. The belated introduction of the cap is likely to annoy inves- tors”, says lawyer Georg Abegg of Rödl & Partner. He calls for a fast so- lution especially for the purchase of the excess solar electricity. “Other- wise, lawsuits against the new regulation are imminent.” Spanish PV industry’s associations AEF, ASIF and APPA required from the parliament to reject the RD 14/2010 in its plenary session at the end of January. “RD-L 14/10 contains 30 % cuts retroactive to the feed-in tariff for 50,000 existing solar installations. This application of retroactivity, unheard of in a state of law, would have a terrible impact on confidence in the PV market and the business community.”

Punjab policeman next MPO builds French PV cell factory to the first Megawatt scale solar power plant of India at MPO International, a manufacturer of sound and data carri- the village of Awan. ers from Brittany, is currently erecting a new production line Photo: EPA/Raminder Pal Singh for polysilicon cells in cooperation with the environmental technology investor Demeter Partners. The factory of the MPO subsidiary Energy India modifies bank guarantees for is being set up in Mayenne in the region Pays de la Loire. It will reach a capacity of 3000 cells per hour, which corresponds to 100 MW per solar projects year. MPO entered into the photovoltaics business one and a half years In order to avoid putting at risk the development of its so- ago. The company joined the project PV 20, in which the National lar power sector, India modified the procedure for bank Solar Energy Institute (INES), the Alternative Energies and Atomic guarantees for the developers of solar power projects in December Energy Commission (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux éner- 2010. The modification was preceded by a warning issued by the gies alternatives, CEA) as well as the companies Semco Engineering, largest non-governmental utility company Tata Power Co. and the Emix and Tenesol also take part. It is the aim of PV 20 to reach a pro- State Bank of India, according to which the insolvency of the portion of 23 % renewable energies in France by 2020, and to install Indian state power supply utilities is looming. “This threatens solar a total capacity of 5.4 GW. The project has obtained financing of € 24 power producers with delayed payments for the electricity they pro- million from Oseo-Isi, a programme which supports innovative indus- duce. The situation has become especially problematic. It will hard- trial projects. ly be possible to obtain credits for project financing, if the project The new production line will be based on technologies developed developers cannot show any evidence that the payments for their in the context of PV 20: methods for processing polycrystalline sili- produced electricity are secure.” India’s governmental power trad- con wafers as well as innovative production processes that allow er NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN) recently reported that the higher cycle rates to be achieved. MPO reports in a press release that banks are now intending to establish a guarantee fund from which the first cells were produced already in 2010 and delivered in Octo- otherwise unpaid remuneration for solar electricity can be drawn. ber. In 2012, the factory will start producing at full capacity. Accord- As specified in the so-called Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mis- ing to MPO, the production will be completely automated reaching a sion, India plans to install a solar power generation capacity of 20 GW level of utilisation of the raw materials of 97 %. by 2022 (see article “Maiden mark of Intersolar India”, pp. 138-139).

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Two CSP plants in California approved USA tried to influence

The California Energy Commission approved the two CSP power plants Spanish power station tender Palen Solar 1 and Rice Solar Energy with a cumulative capacity of 650 MW. According to a dispatch from the US em- Both projects still need approval by the Bureau of Land Management. Experience bassy in Spain that has been published by shows that it is granted within a few weeks after the Energy Commission’s decision. Wikileaks, in January 2010 the American Ambassa- The 500 MW Palen project will contain two adjacent and independent 250 MW dor Alan Solomont tried to get the Spanish Secretary units that will be built on public land between the cities of Indio and Blythe in River- of State for Energy Pedro Marin to give preferential side County. It will use parabolic trough technology where parabolic mirrors heat a approval for two American CSP power station heat-transfer oil which then is used to generate steam for a conventional steam tur- projects, or to bypass existing regulations in their bine. A right-of-way grant is being sought for approximately 5,200 acres (~2,100 ha) approval. As the dispatch specifies, this concerns of land. Originally the project was applied for nearly 3,000 acres (~1,240 ha). The projects of the US companies NextEra U.S. and Solar- committee recommends either of two alternative configurations for the Palen Reserve. The embassy dispatch says that the Spa­ projects to reduce the impact on sand dune habitat, sand transport corridor and the nish Secretary of State was of the opinion that the Mojave fringe toad lizard. Both alternatives would cover about 4,300 acres (~1,740 application from SolarReserve would be very difficult ha) and are allowed for construction. to approve. Since the application had been submit- The 150 MW Rice Solar Energy Project will be located on about 1,400 acres (~560 ted too late, the Spanish government would find it ha) of private land about 40 miles northwest of Blythe. It will use a central receiver difficult to justify allowing SolarReserve to “jump the tower with a field of two axis sun-tracking heliostats, which will focus the sunlight queue” ahead of all the other companies that had onto the receiver. It will use molten salt as heat transfer medium and for an integra­ applied within the May to December time limit. ted thermal storage system. The heated salt will be used to generate steam similar to Furthermore, the company had applied for a project other CSP plants. exceeding the upper limit of 50 MW. In the course of the conversation, American Am- Tessera Solar sells 850 MW CSP project bassador Solomont emphasized that Spanish com- panies were the greatest receivers of stimulus fund- Tessera Solar, a US developer with the electricity price that dish ing for renewable energy projects in the USA. The of utility scale dish Stirling CSP Stirling technology of Tessera Solar can United States attached importance to the project's projects, sold the 850 MW Calico Solar achieve. approval “partly in business terms and partly be- Project to the power developer company The project received building permis- cause of the symbolic importance”. If permission K Road Power Holdings. sion last fall as a 663 MW dish Stirling were given, SolarReserve would also be willing to ac- Shortly before the sale, Southern Cali- project. The original application was pro- cept a lower feed-in tariff than the tariff granted to fornia Edison, the biggest power utility in posed for 850 MW CSP. The permit now the other CSP projects. Secretary of State Marin said California cancelled the Power Purchase has to be amended to the new owner, he would “look at the company’s arguments again Agreement (PPA) with Tessera Solar. The which has not been effected yet. K Road and see if anything can be done”. reason for the cancellation was not given. says that they are confident in that hap- SolarReserve’s CEO Kevin Smith commented that Under the new owner K Road, the pening and want to start construction in “Since 2008, SolarReserve, together with its Spanish project will cut down the CSP share of 2011. A new buyer for the produced joint venture partners, has been developing a the project to 100 MW, while the rest will electricity has not been found yet. Since number of concentrating solar power (CSP) projects utilise photovoltaics for power genera- K Road is building utility scale power in Spain, the first of which is a 50 MW CSP project lo- tion. In addition, the 100 MW CSP share projects, they have good contacts to rel- cated in Castilla la Mancha. The project has been will not be built until the 750 MW photo- evant parties and want to start negotia- submitted in response to the Government of Spain's voltaic part is finished. tions shortly. formal tender process as defined by Royal Decree K Road’s managing partner Gerrit Ni- and published in the Official Bulletin on the 26 No- cholas’ comment, “We are excited to vember 2010 which allowed for 1 project of up to move the Calico Solar Project into a fi- 50 MW and 2 projects of 15 MW.” Smith added: “We nanceable position”, could be seen as know that the US government is supporting our ef- an indicator that the cancellation of the forts in Spain, as the Spanish government is support- PPA between Tessera and SCE has to do ing Spanish solar companies developing in the US.” To date, no power station with a capacity excee­ 100 MW of the Calico Solar project will ding 50 MW has been approved. The US embassy in be reserved for new generations of SES Spain and the Spanish Ministry of Industry have not SunCatcher technology. Photo: Tessera Solar responded to enquiries from SUN & WIND ENERGY. CSP plant Palma del Río II starts operation

The 50 MW parabolic trough plant Palma del Río II in the face of 372,240 m2. Acciona is currently building a second plant province of Cordoba, Spain, has started operation and is ex- named Palma del Río I on an adjacent site, which is technical identi- pected to produce 232 GWh per year. The plant represents an invest- cal. It will start operation in summer 2011. These installations in- ment of € 251 million and creates 30 jobs for its operation. The CSP cluded Acciona Energy will then operate four plants (three in Spain plant is located on 135 hectares – an equivalent to 189 soccer fields and one in the USA). Based on the IEA forecast that estimates a total – on which 792 collectors have been installed with 190,080 mirrors. CSP capacity of 1,300 MW installed worldwide by the end of 2010, The mirrors cover a linear distance of 76 km, with a solar capture sur- Acciona has reached a world market share of nearly 17 %.

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Award for SHC plant from S.O.L.I.D. Solar water heaters in China stop working A solar cooling plant currently being built in Singapore has won the “Solar Pio- neer Award” of the Republic of Singapore. The prize is given by the Economic De- According to a report in the Shang- velopment Board of the country. This was announced by the Austrian company S.O.L.I.D. hai Daily of 28th December 2010, GmbH in a press release. The plant, which is being built on the campus of the United World many residents of Shanghai and other parts College of South East Asia, is the only solar thermal project to have received the award. of China are regularly forced to take cold The projects are selected for the award depending on their innovative character, eco- showers in the winter because their solar nomic efficiency and use of know-how. When it is finished, the solar cooling plant at the water heater (SWH) fails to work properly. United World College will be the world’s largest solar cooling installation (see S&WE The article in the daily newspaper refers to 10/2010, p. 84). The plant is being built by S.O.L.I.D. in cooperation with other Austrian a survey carried out by the Shanghai Com- companies such as ÖkoTech and Schneid. According to S.O.L.I.D, the project is especially mission of Consumers’ Rights and Interests innovative due to its business model. It is being realized via a contracting system. The Protection along with its counterparts in 23 main components of the plant have now been assembled on the building and it will go into provinces and cities. operation according to plan in spring 2011. The results of the study are scathing: on- ly 35 % of solar water heaters in the sur- veyed locations work properly. Around 40 % of those asked even said that their SWH stopped working completely in winter. The The essential components of rest reported that they have persistent what will become the world‘s problems with the heaters, so that the wa- largest SHC plant have already ter does not get warm enough. Owners of been assembled on the building. an SWH with an additional electrical heating Photo: S.O.L.I.D. capability considered themselves to be lucky. The fact that one needs auxiliary heating French subsidiary of Wagner & Co expands for solar-heated domestic water in regions that are cold in the winter is hardly surpris- Wagner & Co France SARL, a sub- ty: on the facades of the office block, which ing, even though the Shanghai Daily lists sidiary of the German solar spe- is flooded with natural light, the company this as one of the “persistent problems”. cialist Wagner & Co, has moved to larger has placed its own solar collectors and us- Many of those surveyed, who obviously premises. Only three years after its foun- es them for room heating support. The have a system with no backup heater, said dation, the original French branch at Tour- heating system is additionally supported that they had to find other methods to heat nus in Burgundy had become too small. by a wood-chip-burning boiler. On the their domestic water. More space was urgently needed for the warehouse roof there is a photovoltaic sys- Nevertheless, the conclusion of the Com- company, which has grown to employ 27 tem. The official opening of the new com- mission is interesting: the problems were staff. The new premises in nearby Siman- pany location is planned for the spring of caused by low-quality heater parts. Thus dre covers a total area of 25,000 m2, in- 2011. the officials advise consumers that they cluding 900 m2 of offices and around Wagner & Co currently offers its 30 years should buy SWHs produced by reputable 4,000 m2 of warehousing. of experience as a system supplier for solar companies and purchase them in winter as In the design of the new buildings thermal and photovoltaic products in many this is the ideal time to test the SWH’s capa- Wagner has concentrated on sustainabili- European countries as well as the USA. bilities.

Solar sea water desalination in Egypt

In the Egyptian tourist centre of Hurgada on the Red Sea, the Cairo-based compa- ny Solar Energy & Environment Technology (SE) has installed a solar sea water de- salination system. The desalination process is based on a thermal evaporation method developed by the German company Terrawater GmbH. The deployed module can generate 5 m3 of drinking water per day, for which it needs a thermal input of 50 kW (see also S&WE 12/2010, page 83). This heat is provided by a collector array with an area of 78 m2, con- sisting of 16 vacuum tube collectors from the German manufacturer AkoTec GmbH. “There are 8 parallel branches, each with two collectors connected in series”, explains Mohamed Gebaily of SE regarding the hydraulic system. The direct-flow vacuum tubes lie flat on the roof of the hotel that operates the system and uses the drinking water produced. The raw water used by the system is the saline ground water available at the location of the hotel, which is less than a kilometre from the Red Sea. Two 5 m3 steel tanks store the fresh water created. In the installation of the system, SE cooperated with the Egyptian company Acropol. Lying flat on the roof, the vacuum tubes “We are two sisters and partners as Egyptian Companies that cooperate in the installation collect the heat that is necessary to produce of innovative solar energy solution projects”, says Mohamed Gebaily. drinking water from saline ground water. Photo: SE

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LZFRP builds its sixth rotor blade factory United Technologies buys Clipper The Chinese company Lianyungang enough for a wind power capacity totalling 75 Zhongfu Lianzhong Composites GW. Group (LZFRP), sole owner of the German LZFRP has produced rotor blades in China The history of the American company Sinoi GmbH, has built their sixth since 2006 – for turbine classes from 1.25 to turbine manufacturer Clipper production plant in Xinjiang Province. 5 MW. The company says that by the end of Windpower as an independent company The company wants to produce rotor 2010 it had manufactured more than 5000 has come to an end. blades for wind turbines with a total capacity rotor blade sets and, among other projects, On 15th December the American of 1 GW annually in the city of Hami. In the equipped the first Chinese offshore wind technology group United Technologies coming years, one of the seven 10 GW wind farm Donghai Bridge off Shanghai. took over all the remaining shares in the farm complexes planned by the National The company has a production plant in manufacturer that it did not already own Energy Authority (NEA) will be constructed in Nordhausen, Germany (Sinoi GmbH Deutsch- – until 29th December all the existing Hami (see S&WE 9/2010, pages 234-241). land) as well as four other production sites in shareholders will receive 65 British According to Dingjin Zhang, Chairman of China: in Lianyungang (Jiangsu Province), pence (around € 0.76) per share. China Composites Group and main share- Shenyang (Liaoning Province), Baotou (Inner Clipper Windpower is resident in holder of LZFRP, the wind potential is huge Mongolia) and Jiuquan (Gansu Province). Carpinteria, California, but had its man- ufacturing plants in Iowa in the Ameri- can Midwest. Its product portfolio in- Third Acciona wind project in India cludes only a 2.5 MW turbine. In recent years, however, Clipper has repeatedly The Spanish turbine manufacturer Acciona has closed the financing of the announced its intention to present a 56.1 MW Tuppadahalli wind farm with the Indian Infrastructure Development prototype of a 10 MW turbine at a pro- Finance Company (IDFC). duction plant in Great Britain, but this The wind farm in the Karnataka state in the south-west of the country is Acciona Energy’s has been continually postponed. At the third wind farm in India, and will raise the company’s wind energy capacity in the country to end of 2009, UTC began to show an in- 85.8 MW. Construction works on this project began in October 2010. The wind farm will start terest in Clipper, and immediately took operation in 2011 consisting of 34 turbines with a capacity of 1,650 kW each. over 49.5 % of the shares. The deal was The financing is structured through the project finance modality for a sum of 2,000 million preceded by several months of sear­ rupees (€ 33.3 million), which represents around 60 % of the total investment in the project. ching for investors willing to support the The amortisation period has been set at 14 years, one of the longest ever granted in India for further growth of the only originally project finance in the wind power sector. American wind turbine manufacturer. One reason for choosing UTC was that Clipper’s former CEO Douglas Pertz wanted to profit from their experience with efficient production lines. At this time, the relatively small Clipper Windpower – annual turnover of around € 500 million – was fighting Acciona’s Anabaru wind farm in India with a capacity of 16.5 MW, against liquidity problems. When the built in 2008, is also located in Karnataka. Photo: Acciona expected boom in the US wind industry failed to materialize in 2010, Clipper went further into the red. Pertz was re- placed by UTC board member Mauricio UK remains offshore champion Quintana. Consequently, UTC an- nounced in October that they had com- In the European Union, 308 offshore wind turbines with a total capacity of 883 MW pletely taken over the company. The two were installed in 2010. Compared to the newly installed capacity in 2009, this is an stages of the takeover in 2009 and at increase by 51 %. According to EWEA, the new turbines were erected in nine wind farms in five the end of last year cost UTC around European countries, making a total of 1,136 turbines with a capacity of 2,964 MW. The newly € 270 million. The second half of the installed capacity in 2010 is worth some € 2.6 billion, says EWEA. shares was a real bargain at € 85 mil- The new figures of the association show that the United Kingdom is still the European (and lion thanks to the drastic fall in the world) leader, with a total installed offshore wind capacity of 1,341 MW, followed by Denmark share price. with 854 MW, the Netherlands (249 MW), Belgium (195 MW), Sweden (164 MW), Germany UTC is one of the 50 largest compa- (92 MW), Finland (26 MW), Ireland (25 MW) and Norway with 2.3 MW. nies in the USA and has many holdings The EWEA expects between 1,000 and 1,500 MW of new offshore wind power capacity to in the aerospace and climate technology be fully grid connected in Europe during 2011, compared with 883 MW of new capacity in industries. In 2008 the group had a turn­ 2010. Ten European wind farms are currently under construction with a total of 3,000 MW, and over of almost US$ 45 billion. The Ameri- a total of 19,000 MW of offshore wind capacity is already fully consented. If constructed, the can wind power industry will henceforth farms would generate 66.6 TWh of electricity in an average wind year – enough to supply 14 of be controlled by two multinational con- the largest capitals in Europe. cerns, GE and UTC.

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From the beginnings of solar thermal power generation

Electricidad Termosolar – Solar Thermal together pictures and information about Power” that Valeriano Ruiz Hernández, the beginnings of solar thermal power gen- President of the association Protermosolar, eration in Spain. Many personal stories has put together will be well-accepted: con- from the researchers are included. A total tributions to the foreword have been made of 14 authors took part. They describe the by Spanish President José Luis Rodriguez pioneering spirit of a time in which today’s Zapatero, the Presidents of the regions most important research institute for solar ­Andalusia, Castile-La Mancha and Extrema- thermal power generation, the Plataforma dura, the Spanish Energy Minister, as well Solar de Almería, was first created, and as diverse regional ministers. The book was people first had to come to terms with in- written in cooperation with the Advanced creasing oil prices. The technical approach- Technology Centre for Renewable Energies es and developments are also described in of Andalusia CTAER and was sponsored by detail, from the first ideas right up to cur- the University of Seville and the Energy, rent projects. The book also includes a DVD Environmental and Technological Research with several films about solar energy. If a book is to be successful Centre CIEMAT. in Spain, it needs a foreword written by a All contributions in the book are printed Valeriano Ruiz Hernandez (coordinator), Protermosolar (publisher): La Electricidad Termosolar – Solar Thermal well-known personality. Measured accord- in both Spanish and English. With great Power. 517 pages, bound. Price: €62.40, available from ing to this criteria, the bilingual volume “La ­detail and care, Ruiz and his team have put www.protermosolar.com The Emergence of Electricity Philippines and World Bank from the Sun cooperate on renewables

Wolfgang Palz, Chairman of the World Council for Renewable The Philippines and the World Bank want to cooperate on the Energies, is convinced that photovoltaic energy will change development of renewable energies and to introduce uniform the world. In his book he describes, why and how. The book feed-in tariffs. The purpose of the feed-in tariffs is primarily to attract tells the history of PV and at the same time a lot about Palz’s foreign investors and to reduce the island nation's dependence on com- personal story. Palz starts with the very beginnings, when modity imports. the Bell Laboratories developed the first PV modules with a Geothermal energy will be the focus because the Philippines are usable energy output. He covers the first solar car races, the well-supplied with the necessary natural resources for this. By 2013, the beginning of the European Photovoltaic Conferences and country wants to become the world's largest user of geothermal energy. how utility companies tried to keep PV small. In addition to Palz’s view, 41 solar pioneers from all around the world con- tributed their own chapters to the book, among them Her- Quantas to build biojet fuel plant mann Scheer from Germany, Michael Eckhart from the USA, Guiliano Grassi from Italy and Michael Grätzel from Switzer- The Australian Airline Quantas will build the world’s second land. commercial-scale plant to produce biofuel that can be used in aircrafts. Quantas’ partner, the US-based fuel producer Solena, is also in Wolfgang Palz: negotiations with the airlines easyJet, Ryanair, and Aer Lingus about ­Power for the World. The Emergence of building a plant in Dublin, Ireland. The airlines are to reduce their car- Electricity from the bon footprint ahead of their entry to the European emissions trading Sun. 2010. Pen scheme in 2012. Any airline flying in or out the European Union will have Standford Publi- shing Pte. Ltd, to reduce their CO2 emissions or pay a penalty. ­Singapore. 550 pa- Solena produces biofuel using the Fischer-Tropsch process which is ges. ISBN 978-981- well known since 1925 and is also used to produce fuel from coal. 4303-37-8. Price: US$ 79. ­ www.panstanford. com Correction Correction to the article „Control- ler trends: Greater convenience at a low price“ in S&WE 1/2011, page 64-75: On page 71 under „Multifunction- al system controllers“ we showed a picture of the Sorel controller STDC and not the intended con- troller XTDC. We apologize for this mistake. XTDC system controller from Sorel

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