Jim Gentilcore promoted the solar cells Edwards CEO of

Solar cell maker Edwards Group has promoted Jim Gentilcore as the chief executive officer, effective from March 1, 2013. Gentilcore since 2007 has served as a board member of the company, before succeeding Matthew Taylor (Matthew Taylor), Matthew Taylor, by mutually agreed with the Board of Directors of the Company, prior to the resignation.

Gentilcore has 30 years of experience in the technology industry, and has held various senior positions. Recently 2009-2011, Gentilcore served as CEO of EPAC Technologies.

The the Edwards Group Chairman Nick Ross (Nick Rose) said: "Jim Gentilcore is a experienced leader with in-depth understanding of Edwards, our strategy and our industry, we are very pleased, and he added a critical juncture in the development of the company Jim obtained from a successful career in the company operates a range of technical insights, coupled with his experience as members of our Board, make him well suited for promoting Edwards strategic initiatives and development plans. "

On January 26, the Sacramento Municipal Division (SMUD) Energy Technology Enterprise Stem California secret Erbu Lai, announced that they will launch a pilot project to study the impact of a large number of photovoltaic electricity grid.

This two-year research project will be used to Stem the high-resolution data acquisition cloud systems, aimed at cutting the cost of the customer's electricity.

A stage in the project, Stem with Sacramento Municipal Division, residential and commercial customers with solar panel community volunteers to install stem power monitoring data acquisition and analysis system. The data collected Stem help the the Sacramento Municipal Division decided photovoltaic power to access distributed power distribution lines, while maintaining grid stability and quality of power supply.

Today, there are friends in the microblogging said Spanish solar FIT overestimate the power generation costs brought about serious consequences: a large number of items to stimulate launched, the results for the payment of the FIT tariff doubled. In fact, the financial investment in new energy to encourage its corresponding taxes and rising market prices, resulting in the loss may not be less than the carbon tax, why would through the RPS new energy policy in disguise without success, low efficiency on traditional power generation tax?

The components manufacturer Canadian solar cell has announced that a component supply agreement has been signed with a photovoltaic system supplier headquartered in Tanzania - ZaraSolar. Under the agreement, Canadian Solar will Zara Solar Tanzania solar off-grid photovoltaic power generation project extra 85KW components.

The latest orders included, Canadian Solar will provide ZaraSolar with to more than 350kW PV modules. Canadian Solar, said: These components are of different sizes, from 15 watts to 90 watts, ideal for off-grid projects, as well as Tanzania, the local environment.