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ACCIONA Solar Completes 2.4MW Spanish Photovoltaic Project

ACCIONA Solar, a subsidiary of ACCIONA Energa, has put the largest photovoltaic facility in Spain into service at Castejn (Navarre). The 2.44 MWp facility consists of 400 solar trackers belonging to 279 owners and represents a total investment of 19 million euros for these owners. Over the weekend, the owners received the documents that accredit them as the owners of their installations. The solar gardens – a name registered by ACCIONA Solar – are sites that bring together small, individually owned photovoltaic installations. Their energy management and performance are optimised because the infrastructure and common services are shared. The sixth solar garden in Navarre The owners of the installations will visit the site tomorrow, accompanied by representatives of ACCIONA Solar, to see the solar trackers that will turn them into electric power producers. The electricity produced by each panel is sent to the national grid and is invoiced separately by each owner. The trackers on the site will generate around 4.4 million kilowatt-hours per year of clean and renewable electricity, with production equivalent to the consumption of more than 1,400 households. This level of production will avoid the emission of 4,307 tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere, with a purifying […]

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SolarWorld to Expand Silicon Recycling

SolarWorld announced its subsidiary, Deutsche Solar AG, would increase silicon recycling to expand its capacity to generate silicon internally. The company will establish a second production facility where used silicon will be recycled for use again. “With the new investments, we will double our previous upgrading capacity thus keeping pace with the expansion of the capacity in wafer production. The investment volume for the new production hall amounts to some five million euro,” explains Peter Woditsch, CEO of Deutsche Solar AG. “The ‘Solar Material’ division is responsible for our internal raw materials activities which also include recycling. We will employ newly developed technologies that will be able to recycle raw materials which have so far not been economically usable,” said divisional manager Karsten Wambach. The raw materials that the Solar Material division recycles for Deutsche Solar AG includes both silicon cuttings from our own wafer production and material bought externally. “In the future we will make our competences in silicon recycling available as a service to other companies,” he continued. SolarWorld also announced it will intensify business activities in Asia in the context of the take-over of the solar silicon activities of the Shell Group. “We will strengthen our contacts […]

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