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World's Largest Solar Photovoltaic Park Opens in Germany

The world’s largest solar park officially opened in the central Bavarian town of Mhlhausen on Thursday. The project has a 10MW of power capacity (57,600 PV panels) and consists of three solar parks in Muehlhausen, Guenching, and Minihof in Bavaria. The plant will not be the record holder for very long though because by the end of 2005, a solar park in northern Bavaria is expected to produce more than 12 million kilowatt hours per year. California-based PowerLight Corporation supplied the system: its PV tracking system follows the sun as it moves across the sky, enabling more electricity to be generated than from conventional fixed systems. The modules are from Sharp Electronics and the inverters and other construction equipment are from Siemens AG. Solar Energy Fund Bavaria financed the project – investors can still obtain shares in their closed fund. Under the German Renewable Energy Law (EEG), the fund benefits from a legally fixed payment for the produced power.

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FuelCell Energy and Enbridge Inc. Enter into Ageement for Hybrid Power Plant

Enbridge Inc. (NYSE:ENB;TSX:ENB), a leader in energy transportation and distribution in North America and internationally, and FuelCell Energy, Inc. (NasdaqNM:FCEL), a leading manufacturer of fuel cell power plants for commercial and industrial customers, have entered into an exclusive product development and distribution agreement for a new multi-megawatt product, the Direct FuelCell – Energy Recovery Generation(TM) (DFC-ERG(TM)), specifically designed for natural gas pipeline applications in the U.S. and Canada. The DFC-ERG power plant is a combined cycle generation system that combines a Direct FuelCell (DFC) power plant and an unfired expansion gas turbine for natural gas pipeline letdown stations where pressure reductions are required for local delivery. The DFC-ERG provides the heat necessary to prevent freezing that results in the pressure reduction process at these locations, eliminating the combustion-based system that is presently used today. There are hundreds of these type stations across North America, which are typically in areas with large commercial and industrial customers and/or in large cities. This new product is a way to recover energy from pipeline operations that normally is not currently recovered and to improve on the DFC power plants’ already unmatched efficiencies and emission reduction benefits. Because it is a combined cycle power plant, […]

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