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U.S. Photovoltaic Project Order Backlog Now Surpasses 12 GW

The solar photovoltaic project order backlog for the U.S. market has now soared past 12 GW, according to the latest edition of the Solarbuzz United States Deal Tracker report.

Although the PV industry is facing the effects of large cuts in feed-in tariffs across Europe, the order backlog in the U.S. confirms that the country will be one of the most promising growth markets over the next 24 months, Solarbuzz says. The U.S. market doubled in size in 2010 and is forecast to do so again this year.

The April edition of the report logs over 375 nonresidential projects in the U.S. project pipeline being planned or going through a request for proposal process. It also includes an additional 775 projects that total 0.7 GW of PV systems either installed or being installed since Jan. 1, 2010.

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Generation license granted to two companies

The Government of Nicaragua granted a Canadian owned company and another Nicaraguan generation license for the operation and maintenance of two hydroelectric plants in northern and southern Caribbean, an official source said yesterday.

These permits were granted by the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) firms Puntudo Stone Hydro SA, Canadian-owned company and Cold Mountain Sustainable Energy Tropical SA, Nicaragua's capital, told Efe that the spokesman for State institution Maria Antonieta Santos.

The first permit is for the project Stitch Stone, which will build a hydropower plant with an installed capacity of 15 megawatts in the Mico River, tributary of Escondido, in the municipality Bullocks Wharf, on the southern Caribbean, the ministry said in a statement.

The second permit is for the hydroelectric Las Cañas, in the northern province of Matagalpa and includes the construction of a hydroelectric plant of 1.47 MW of installed capacity, which will use the Yasica river, a tributary of El Tuma, detailing the institution.

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La Prensa
Sept 25, 2009

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