News 2010

• Statkraft sells 3.3 MWp solar project Borgo to Innotech Solar

  (25.11.10) Statkraft has signed an agreement to sell its solar project company RA 2 S.r.l. to ITS Power AG, a daughter company of Norwegian solar company Innotech Solar AS.
   
  
  

• Sandvika, Norway: North Star Solar Signs 60 MW Agreement with PG&E

  (22.11.10) North Star Solar, LLC, a wholly owned affiliate of NorthLight Power, LLC, has signed a 60 (ac) megawatt solar power purchase agreement with Pacific Gas & Electric Company.
   
  
  

• DIREC 2010

  (29.10.10) DIREC 2010 is a success for INDIA, New Delhi and the international renewable business enterprises visiting the conference and the exhibition.
   
  
  

• Business Delegation to Turkey

  (29.10.10) Turkey has vast hydropower resources and the Turkish Hydropower Market provides huge opportunities for investors and suppliers. INTPOW and Innovation Norway gave Norwegian hydropower industry the opportunity to explore this new market at their seminar in Istanbul on October 14.
   
  
  

• HYDRO 2010 – Meeting demands for a changing world

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• INTPOW visited NAREC

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• UK Offshore Wind Accelerator - Access Competition

  (07.10.10) Last week, the UK Carbon Trust launched a competition to find world-leading solutions to the problem of transferring engineers and equipment safely from boats to wind turbines as far as 300km offshore in up to 3 metre wave heights. The project aims to improve the economics of offshore wind by boosting revenues by as much as £3bn at a crucial time for the next generation of Round 3 offshore wind farms.
   
  
  

• REC to shut Swedish module plant, lay off 300 workers

  (22.09.10)   Norwegian solar-energy firm REC will close its 150MW module plant in Glava, Sweden, with 300 people expected to lose their jobs. 
   
  
  

• INTPOW at 25th EU PVSEC / WCPEC-5 Valencia

  (20.09.10) On September 7, during the 25th EU PVSEC / WCPEC-5  conference in Valencia, Spain, INTPOW and Innovation Norway, in alliance, had invited the Norwegian solar industry and their international contacts as well as other industry players to hear Spanish developers, McKinsey and Eksportfinans speak on central industry topics.
   
  
  

• India to allocate developers for about 100 solar projects

  (20.09.10) India’s regulating authority on the licensing of solar plots in the country, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, will start project allotment in September. More than 1,000 firms have expressed interest in about 100 projects of 5MW capacity each. The National Solar Mission is supported by government funding of $19bn and aims to generate 20GW of solar power into the national grid and 2GW for off-grid by 2022. 
   
  
  

• French offshore wind tenders

  (30.08.10) France is going ahead with plans to tender 10 offshore wind sites with a capacity of up to 3GW in September, says the Energy Ministry.
   
  
  

• New report about the Norwegian Energy Industry

  (19.08.10) INTPOW commissioned a baseline report to get an overview of the Norwegian Energy Industry. Menon Business Economics are the authors of the report, first made public at INTPOWs partner meeting on August 18, 2010.
   
  
  

• SN Power, IFC to develop 1GW of hydro power in Vietnam

  (09.07.10) Global hydro firm SN Power and World Bank member International Finance Corporation (IFC) have entered into an agreement to develop up to 1GW of hydro power capacity in Vietnam over a ten-year period.
   
  
  

• Q-Cells and Innotech Solar enter strategic partnership

  (16.06.10) Q-Cells and ITS today announced that they have entered into a long-term strategic partnership. Under the scope of this agreement, Q-Cells will sell all of its non-prime solar cells to ITS for conversion into PV solutions worldwide under the ITS brand name.  
   
  
  

• Recharge wins the prestigious REA Advocate Award

  (16.06.10) Recharge has won the prestigious British Renewable Energy Association’s (REA) Advocate Award at a gala dinner in London.
   
  
  

• Scatec Solar acquirers the remaining 33.33% of Signo Solar S.R.O. to make it a fully owned subsidiary

  (20.04.10)