The United States Will Build The World's Largest Solar Power Station

Arizona will be the United States built the world's largest solar power plant, which is scheduled for 2011 and generate electricity.

The power station has been named the "Solana", Spanish for "a sunny place", from Arizona and Abengoa Solar companies. It occupies 1,900 acres, will run two 140-megawatt steam generating units to 280 megawatts of total generating capacity.

Solana power plant will produce 280 megawatts of total generating capacity, enough to supply 7,000 families of their daily consumption, but also avoid the 400,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

In the next 30 years, the power station will be to the Arizona Public Service Company sell electricity, and brought to the Arizona 1 billion US dollars of economic interests, and Abengoa Solar companies will be about 4 billion dollars in receipts.

Source: 人民网环保频道 Wang Li Feb. 29, 2008

Qatar Plans Solar Power Plant Construction

Qatar is considering the construction of a solar power plant to meet the country's increasing demand for energy.

The report says the planned power plants of this is the world's largest solar power plant of Qatar completed can ease the energy shortage situation.

The impact of the oil dollars, the Gulf States are faced with the existing energy unable to meet their rapid economic growth. According to the forecast, Qatar in the next 30 years the demand for energy may be increased four times.

Although the Gulf Arab countries have rich oil and gas resources, its oil and natural gas reserves of the world's total reserves were 30% and 8%, but the Gulf countries are energy and water conservancy relative speed of its economic growth is still lagging behind, to find alternative sources of energy Gulf States is the direction of current efforts.

Source: 新华网 Zhang Yuhong Feb. 4, 2008

Highlights Solar India Fab City 7 Billion US Dollars Investment

Indian Minister of Commerce Jairam Ramesh recently said that the Government of India has approved another five companies to participate in the Fab City plan, which would allow the total amount of investment reached 7 billion dollars. He said that the latest investment is the focus of solar energy conversion, and pointed out that the Government of India there are many other plans, and some have been approved, in principle, and others under consideration, which may Fab City to attract more investment.

Fab City established in 2006 to promote the development of India chip manufacturing. At present Fab City on the photoelectric products pinned great hopes on the new scheme are committed to the five solar business, and Fab City about half of the proposed scheme are currently in the field of photoelectric. The Government of India has also approved in principle by the other five the total investment amounted to 7 billion US dollars plan. Ramesh said that, there is another five a total of 6 to 7 billion dollars plan also active consideration.

Source: 电子工程专辑 Feb. 21, 2008

US Experts Say China Is Expected To Become A Market Leader In Renewable Energy

Washington at the Worldwatch Institute, an independent research organization for the 9th said that China is expected to become the next few years the global renewable energy market leader.

Worldwatch Institute President Christopher Flavin each year a "World Situation Report" said at the press conference that China is not only a lot of new energy-saving products of the major manufacturing nations, "the policy of promoting the area of renewable energy," has shown the leadership momentum.

He predicted that China will become the front of three years renewable energy market world number one big country.

Flavin also said that in early 2006, a new development of the renewable energy in China's major entry into force of the law, the effect of the new law has already started to become apparent.

Source: 新华网 Jan. 11, 2008

American Scientists Believe That Solar Energy Is Expected To Become A Preferred Alternative Energy

American scientists Travis Bradford in the newly published "Solar Revolution," a book predicted that solar energy will be in the next 20 years to become the best effect, the price of the cheapest alternative sources of energy, prices will drop 50% in 10 years, after 20 years of decline 75% .

Bradford is the Massachusetts Institute of Sustainable Development Prometheus founder and president. He said that over the past 10 years has been the development of optoelectronic industries to obtain electricity through photovoltaic cells become economical and practical. Japan, Germany and the United States and other markets around the world, tens of thousands of households and enterprises are using photovoltaic technology.

He wrote that the construction of large wind power or geothermal power facilities now require supporting infrastructure, use of these two methods of generating at least half of funds should be used in the transmission and distribution. Using solar power, without electrical power grid will be able to transmit directly to end-users, the cost is only to tenants to install equipment costs. At present, the supply shortage of fine silicon solar panels limit production. Bradford believes that this situation will change after a few years. First, according to those large and reliable polysilicon manufacturing enterprises, as well as some in the manufacturing metallurgical grade silicon has extensive experience in new business to increase the output of the current situation to 2008, will double the supply of polysilicon. In addition, chips and solar battery maker is studying how to make more effective use of silicon.

He pointed out that some of the world's developing countries are often rich in solar energy resources, but the lack of use of solar energy resources. The future of solar energy prices drop significantly, a household will be able to spend 50 US dollars with a generating power of 30 watts of solar panels, used to recharge cell phones and listening to the radio and so on. In the United States, major residential construction companies are considering new construction using solar energy problems. California passed a new bill on the request of construction companies in 2012 to allow tenants choose to use solar power. Bradford believes that the future five years, the United States will become a solar energy use one of the fastest growing, will be more than Germany and Japan as the world's largest country in the use of solar energy.

Source: 筑能网 Yin Jianghai Feb. 13, 2008