SunPower Signs German Supply Deal,from Green2tech

Written by David Ehrlich

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Posted December 1st, 2008 at 1:27 pm in Energy,Hitlines

California’s SunPower announced its second supply contract in as many months today, an agreement to ship 100 megawatts of solar panels to German solar power plant integrator City Solar Kraftwerke. Under the 3-year deal, SunPower will also provide City Solar with commercial rooftop and ground-mounted systems.

Last month, SunPower signed a deal to supply its solar panels to Italy’s Ecoware, another solar power plant integrator. That contract is a 4-year deal for SunPower to supply at least 130 MW of its solar panels to Ecoware, starting in the first quarter of 2009. SunPower didn’t disclose the financial terms of the City Solar or Ecoware contracts.

This latest contract with City Solar includes SunPower’s solar roof tiles for commercial rooftop installations and trackers for utility-scale, ground-mounted systems. City Solar, founded in 2002, has at least 20 solar projects under its belt, according to its web site. Most of its projects are turn-key solar power plants, including ground-level and rooftop projects, in Germany, but the company has also ventured into Spain with its five largest solar power plant installations.

City Solar’s biggest project is in Beneixama, Spain, generating 20 MW. The company said that ground project involved 200 solar panels, with work starting in August 2006 and finalized in the late summer of 2007.

SunPower has also done some work in Spain, last week announcing the completion of the 18 MW Olivenza solar power plant in Badajoz, Spain. SunPower, which has an office in Madrid, said it has completed construction of more than 165 MW of solar power plants in Spain, and more than 400 MW worldwide.

T. Boone, Sen. Reid Team Up for Clean Energy Summit Redux

Written by Josie Garthwaite

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Posted February 2nd, 2009 at 3:05 pm in Policy

National security for the U.S. hinges on investment and incentives for new transmission lines, a smart grid, and converting big trucks to use natural gas as fuel (one of energy magnate T. Boone Pickens’s personal favorite fuels). That was the gist of a press call today with Pickens, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and John Podesta, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff for the Clinton administration.

The three came together to plug the second annual National Clean Energy Summit due to take place in Las Vegas on Feb. 23. The gathering is meant to serve as a forum for politicians, scientists, executives, academics, and advocates to hash out energy policy just as the government is gearing up to dole out billions in stimulus for, among other things, renewables R&D, energy efficiency and conservation projects, and infrastructure upgrades.

The first summit, put together by Reid and the Center for American Progress Action Fund, produced several policy recommendations likely to be revisited at this year’s event. More ambitious goals that have come to the fore in recent months may raise the bar for proposals at the summit.

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