GT Solar has received final acceptance for the design, installation and commissioning of one of the most technologically-advanced turnkey wafer fabrication lines in Spain.

The Strategic Energy Plan (SET) is the EU?s blueprint for building-up Europe?s use of renewable energies. It sets out plans to develop the technologies needed to meet the EU?s objective.

An estimated 84 million of the country’s 240 million population have no access to electricity.

The proposal calls for installing at least twenty-five, 10,000 megawatt, wind farms over a twenty-five year period that would generate 250 gigawatts per hour.

The State Electric Company has signed a 20-year agreement with Falcon Energy for a 75 megawatt wind farm in the Maldives, taking the country one-fifth of the way closer to attaining carbon neutrality.

Mineral water company Mey Golan (Waters of Golan) was granted a license to build a $500 million and 400 MW wind farm also on the Golan Heights.

Galp plans to build four wind farms in La Guajira, Isla de Coche, Isla Margarita and Chacopata, amounting to a total power of 72 MW and almost ?90 million.

The new company, called Dll GmbH, also appointed Paul van Son, a former energy company executive to the post of chief executive. Dll will be headquartered in Munich.

AWEA enthusiastically supports a new policy announced by the Administration that will greatly facilitate efforts to access world-class renewable energy resources currently stranded in remote parts of the country.