United States Investment In Solar Power Plan

Rising oil prices and the use of fossil fuel emissions persons to the future of the United States will favor solar energy.

The sun's rays illuminate the Earth 40 minutes on the annual equivalent of the global energy consumption. In the United States, there are at least southwestern only 250,000 square miles of land suitable for building solar energy power generating facilities, over 4500, 2001 × 1015BTU acceptable sunlight radiation. Radiation of sunlight into electricity 2.5%, in 2006 the United States will meet all energy consumption.

The United States has put forward ambitious plans to make 2050 the United States to provide solar power for electricity and 69 per cent of its total energy (including transport) of 35 per cent. Expected sales to users of solar energy will be equivalent to the current cost of conventional electricity costs about 5 cents / KWh. If wind, biomass and geothermal energy has also been developed, to the 2100 renewable energy can provide 100 per cent of electricity and the United States 90 percent of its energy.

Source: 云南电力新闻 Jan. 21, 2008

India Introduced Measures To Support Solar Power

India is currently implementing a plan, which seeks to those who use solar power plant and grid-connected power plants provide preferential policies.

New Energy and Energy Conversion officials said, the Department decided to implement the model plan, support in the construction and grid-connected solar power plant.

The scheme aims to develop and demonstrate the power grid interactive solar features, lower equipment costs and power generation costs.

Ministry officials said that the current solar power plant that the initial inputs and the costs of power generation, such as the decision of the Department with the power grid interactive power plant to provide incentive funding.

The Department will interact with the grid per kilowatt solar power provide a maximum of 270 cents. In the country's 11th five-year plan period, the demonstration project limited to 50,000 kilowatts of solar power plants.

Source: 中国太阳能网 Jan. 10, 2008

BP Solar 100 Million Euros Building Solar Module Assembly Plant

Photovoltaic solar design, production and sales sectors of the European market leader in solar energy company BP in 2008 began in the second quarter of LaNavaII Puertollano Industrial Park building module assembly plant, the investment for 100 million euros.

The new plant will use modern technology manufacturing solar photovoltaic modules. The first stage production capacity will reach 300 MW / year, which means that the provision of energy can meet the 150,000 to 200,000 domestic demand, to reduce CO2 emissions equivalent to about 420,000 tons / year. The second phase of expansion will reach 500 MW.

BP Solar is a silicon and polysilicon technology to produce photovoltaic solar cells and modules. BP Solar companies in the industry with 30 years of experience, production factories in the United States, Spain, India, Australia and China.

Source: 环球能源网 Qiu Shi Jan. 16, 2008

German Solar Energy Industry Will Achieve Double-Digit Growth This Year

Germany solar Economic Federation (BSW) on the 14th, in 2008 the German solar industry development will exceed 2007 levels, achieving double-digit growth.

The Federation said that because of the needs of various sectors of the solar energy continues to rise, German photovoltaic enterprises orders in 2008 has reached the level of full load. The Association Chairman said that the German solar energy products for a large number of overseas manufacturers favored, in 2007 export value of 2 billion euros, the rate of domestic exports by 38 per cent.

It is understood that the German solar energy enterprises in 2007 turnover grew by 23 per cent, about 5.5 billion euros, industry new jobs 10,000, the sector's total employment to 40,000 people, a whole industry total investment of about 1.5 billion euro.

At present, a total of 15 new German solar companies are planning or building.

Source: 新华网 Liu Jing Jan. 16, 2008

Tibet Will Be The Use Of Solar Energy 180,000 Peasants And Herdsmen Solve The Problem Of Electricity

SDRC Director Jin Shixun Tibet Autonomous Region recently, "said 11 th Five-Year Plan" period Tibet will invest 1.27 billion yuan for the state, through the construction of small-scale PV power plant system and the issuance of household, 187,500 peasants and herdsmen solve the electricity problem of the masses.
Jin Shixun said Tibet boasts rich solar energy resources, in the current conditions, the use of solar photovoltaic technology to solve villages in remote areas without electricity, and scattered peasants and herdsmen households without electricity, the programme is feasible and effective.

Tibet is China's most abundant solar energy resources, direct radiation of the total annual radiation ratio of 56 to 88 percent annual sunshine hours up to 3400 hours.

From the mid-1980s, Tibet has gradually expanded to the study and promotion of solar energy technologies, build county and township levels are nearly 400 photovoltaic power stations, with a total capacity of nearly 9,000 kilowatts.

Outstanding conflict between supply and demand of electricity is constraining the development of Tibet's social and economic factors bottleneck. At present power shortage in the rural and pastoral areas of Tibet more serious, "11 th Five-Year Plan" period in addition to the use of solar energy in Tibet, also through grid extension and the building of small hydropower in the form of the farmers and herdsmen transmission, in order to achieve "11 th Five-Year Plan "basically solve the peasants and herdsmen in the end the goal of electricity.

Source: 新华网 Hu Xing Jan. 10, 2008