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The Green Expo
Earth Day Weekend Celebration
Saturday & Sunday, April 24th - 25th
Mile Square Park ~ Fountain Valley, Orange County
16801 Euclid Street, Fountain Valley, CA 92708
Orange County, CA, April 21, 2010: The Green Expo and Orange County Parks and Recreation, Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day. MARTIFER Solar USA, will be sponsoring the event [...]
Project represents company’s first SmartPark installation in the United States.
New system will eliminate 400 tons of carbon dioxide from the air over its 35-year life span.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Martifer Solar has announced the completion of its first SmartPark solar carport system in the United States. The innovative 35,000-square-foot, 368-kilowatt renewable [...]
LOS ANGELES (March 9, 2010) - When Martifer Solar USA installed the 528 solar panels topping Santa Monica’s new Big Blue Bus building in September 2009, it played a subtle role in the big story about the new 66,000 square foot maintenance facility for the popular public transportation system. Today, Martifer Solar’s [...]
California, United States [RenewableEnergyWorld.com]
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2010/03/california-net-metering-bill-signed-by-governor-schwarzenegger
Assembly Bill 510, authored by Assembly member Nancy Skinner (D–Berkeley), which increased California’s net metering cap passed with bipartisan support by votes of 27-5 in the Senate and 61-4 in the Assembly and was signed late last week by Governor Schwarzenegger.
California public agencies have already installed at least 51 megawatts (MW) of [...]
Martifer Solar sees feed-in-tariffs as necessary to continue the growth of the Solar PV sector. Feed-in-tariffs give consumers the incentive to install solar power because they are guaranteed to obtain a reasonable return on solar investments. There have been questions as to whether feed-in-tariffs are legal under U.S. law, but paraphrasing [...]
Source: www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com
By: Paul Gipe
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has issued a long-awaited legal analysis of how states could implement feed-in tariffs and still comply with federal law.
The January 2010 report, Renewable Energy Prices in State-Level Feed-in Tariffs: Federal Law Constraints and Possible Solutions, was written principally by Scott Hempling with the National Regulatory [...]
Martifer Solar fully supports feed-in tariffs and think they are a key component in making the United States the world’s leader in solar energy. The New York Times today reports on recent developments. Click here for the entire article.
“Reps. Jay Inslee of Washington and Bill Delahunt of Massachusetts are preparing a bill that would require [...]
This is the type of shift in green energy investment that we’ve been hoping for, and expecting.
Rise In 2Q Cleantech Investment Bodes Well For 3Q
Source: Wall Street Journal
By Mara Lemos-Stein
After an anemic first quarter, venture capital investments in clean technology rose 73% in the second quarter to a total of $572.1 million, suggesting there is momentum [...]
Martifer Solar has started the construction of a 3 MW PV solar plant in the province of Agrigento, Sicily. The plant will produce enough energy to supply more than 1,660 families and prevent the emission of more than three tonnes of carbon dioxide.
Martifer Solar will build the plant, although it will be operated by the [...]
Martifer Solar is proud to be a major contributor to California’s top billing as the country’s highest solar generating state. Check out the article below and join us in the solar revolution!
Source: The San Francisco Herald
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/23/BAP518PJEB.DTL
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) has established a feed-in tariff (FIT) that will become effective in January 2010.
According to SMUD, the FIT will be aimed at systems up to 5 MW connected to SMUD’s local distribution system, and is capped at 100 MW system-wide. The SMUD FIT will apply to both renewable and fossil-fuel [...]
The Martifer Solar photovoltaic modules factory contains the world’s leading automization and robotic technology. The production line, manufactured by Spire, and the robotics, manufactured by KUKA, ensures that the manufacturing process is highly efficient, which directly impacts the quality of the final product. The factory occupies over 10.000sqm of the Martifer [...]
VoteSolar.org is a non-profit organization whose mission is to “bring solar energy into the mainstream”. Go to www.votesolar.org today and send a message to your senator or representative in support of initiatives that will make solar energy even more attainable!
From their web site:
“The California solar market faces a serious roadblock. Net metering–the policy that allows [...]
From the L.A. Times -
“The mayor called the “Solar L.A.” plan “a commitment to Angelenos that the Department of Water and Power will install over 1200 megawatts of solar power over the next five years, ensuring that we become a solar powerhouse.”
Read the full story here:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/06/villaraigosa-sheds-light-on-secondterm-plan-as-he-talks-to-business-group-of-a-solar-la.html
Last week Martifer Solar completed an innovative, ground-mount system for a residential homeowner in Malibu, California. The 7 kW system, composed of 30 Sunpower panels, will displace a large portion of the homeowner’s electric bill. The site was chosen after our engineers determined there was not enough roof space for the system and [...]
Martifer Solar’s Santa Monica Blue Bus project, an 80 kW system that will generate a significant portion of the docking station’s energy, is now more than halftway through the panelization process. The system is expected to be fully operational by mid-summer. The Big Blue Bus is both a local and bus rapid transit service, operating [...]
Martifer Attends three major PV industry events: SolarExpo in Verona; Genera in Madrid; and InterSolar in Munich.
Martifer Solar will be participating in the three most important fairs for the European PV industry: SolarExpo from May 6-9 in Verona, Italy; Genera between the 12th and the 14th of May in Madrid, and InterSolar in Munich [...]
Martifer’s consolidated revenues reached €901,9 Mn in Full Year 2008, representing an increase of 74% when compared with 2007 and a CAGR of 82% over the last 3 years. Consolidated EBITDA grew 81% to €67,1 Mn corresponding to a CAGR of 63% over last 3 years. Consolidated net earnings reached €7,7 Mn, reflecting the strong [...]
Martifer Solar plants over 9,300 trees and shrubs.
Martifer Solar has started to reforest its solar installations, which are already working at full capacity. The company will plant over 9,300 plants at a total of 24,432 m² in its first action. Martifer Solar has a strong commitment to the Environment and attaches great importance to the [...]
Martifer Solar Greece participates in Ecotec, the country’s premier solar conference
Martifer Solar is unstoppable in Greece, it is near to start its first large photovoltaic plants in Greece (during 2008 it has implemented several kW of on-roof installations), and after the warm reception that the company had in its presentation to the media and [...]