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171 02 RENEWABLES 2014 GLOBAL STATUS REPORT and More Projects Coming Online, Briefing Paper—China Solar PV Development (Beijing: AECEA, July 2013). 108 “New CPV Record Set,” and “Semprius Hits 35.5% Record,” both from CPV Intelligence Brief, 18 September–1 October 2013, http:// news.pv-insider.com/users/ksdicks; “Sharp Sets CPV Cell Record of 44.4%,” CPV Intelligence Brief, 13–25 June 2013, http://news. pv-insider.com/users/ksdicks; Montgomery, op. cit. note 104. 109 More sophisticated from IEA-PVPS, op. cit. note 5, p. 56; fastest developing from ABB, “ABB Complete Acquisition of Power-One,” press release (Zurich: 25 July 2013), http://www.abb.com/cawp/ seitp202/bf86c5972758ad3ec1257bb300773351.aspx. 110 ABB, op. cit. note 109; second largest from Power-One, “Why Choose Power-One Renewable Energy Solutions?” http://www. power-one.com/renewable-energy, viewed 20 April 2014; Silke Koltrowitz, “ABB Bets on Solar Power with $1 Billion Takeover,” Reuters, 22 April 2013, http://www.reuters.com/article /2013/04/22/us-abb-power-one-idUSBRE93L04U20130422. 111 James Montgomery, “Solar PV Inverter Market Shakeout Continues with ABB and Power-One Deal,” Renewable Energy World, 22 April 2013, http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/ rea/news/article/2013/04/solar-pv-inverter-market-shakeout- continues-with-abb-and-power-one-deal; SMA (Germany) acquired a majority stake in Jiangsu Zeversolar New Energy (China), per “SMA Acquires Majority Stake in Zeversolar,” PV News, April 2013, p. 7; but, in late 2013, it announced plans to downsize in response to changing market conditions, from “SMA to Complete Downsizing in 2014,” PV News, November 2013, p. 4, and from Christoph Steitz, “Update 2-Solar Crisis Drags Germany’s SMA into Loss,” Reuters, 8 August 2013, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/08/smasolar-results- idUSL6N0G90BC20130808; Satcon Technology Corp. (United States) announced plans to liquidate, per “Satcon Unable to Find Buyer, Moves to Liquidate,” PV News, April 2013, p. 6. 112 James Montgomery, “Price Pressures Squeeze Solar Inverter Shipment Outlook,” Renewable Energy World, 16 October 2013, http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/10/ price-pressures-squeeze-solar-inverter-shipment-outlook. CONCENTRATING SOLAR THERMAL POWER (CSP) 1 Global CSP capacity and capacity additions, and Figure 15, derived from the following sources: REN21, Renewables 2013 Global Status Report (Paris: REN21 Secretariat, June 2013), http://www.ren21.net/Portals/0/documents/Resources/ GSR/2013/GSR2013_lowres.pdf; Luis Crespo, European Solar Thermal Electricity Association (ESTELA), personal communication with REN21, February 2014; Fred Morse, Morse Associates, Inc., personal communication with REN21, February–May 2014; 2014; “CSP World Map,” CSP World, http:// www.csp-world.com/cspworldmap; “CSP Today Global Tracker,” CSP Today, http://social.csptoday.com/tracker/projects; U.S. Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), “Solar Energy Facts: 2013 Year in Review,” 5 March 2014, http://www.seia.org/sites/ default/files/YIR%202013%20SMI%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf; SEIA, “Major Solar Projects in the United States: Operating, Under Construction, or Under Development,” 6 March 2014, http:// www.seia.org/sites/default/files/resources/Major%20Solar%20 Projects%20List%203.6.14.pdf; “NextEra dedicates 250 MW Genesis CSP Plant,” Solar Server, 25 April 2014, http://www. solarserver.com/solar-magazine/solar-news/current/2014/kw17/ nextera-dedicates-250-mw-genesis-csp-plant.html; Abengoa Solar, “Mojave Solar Project,” http://www.abengoasolar.com/web/ en/nuestras_plantas/plantas_en_construccion/estados_unidos/. To the extent possible, the GSR uses net capacity CSP data. The net capacity is the peak generating capacity of the plant after subtracting internal power requirements from gross capacity (i.e., the peak generating capacity of its turbine unit). 2 Crespo, op. cit. note 1. 3 Heba Hashem, “Emerging CSP markets: More than meets the eye,” CSP Today, 22 November 2013, http://social.csptoday.com/ markets/emerging-csp-markets-more-meets-eye. 4 Global CSP growth rates derived from the following: REN21, op. cit. note 1; Crespo, op. cit. note 1; Morse, op. cit. note 1; “CSP World Map,” op. cit. note 1; “CSP Today Global Tracker,” op. cit. note 1. 5 Crespo, op. cit. note 1. 6 U.S. capacity added during 2013 includes the 250 MW Solana plant and the 125 MW first phase of the 250 MW Genesis plant, which was commissioned in late 2013. All capacities reported are net. Added capacities, from Fred Morse, Morse Associates, Inc., personal communication with REN21, April 2014; Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, “Genesis Solar Power Project (CACA 48880),” 7 March 2012, http://www. blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/palmsprings/Solar_Projects/Genesis_ Ford_Dry_Lake.html; “NextEra dedicates 250 MW Genesis CSP plant,” SolarServer, http://www.solarserver.com/solar-magazine/ solar-news/current/2014/kw17/nextera-dedicates-250-mw- genesis-csp-plant.html; U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), “Concentrating Solar Power Projects: Solana Generating Station,” 17 March 2014, http://www.nrel.gov/csp/ solarpaces/project_detail.cfm/projectID=23; capacity under construction from idem; James Montgomery, “Go-Time for Solar CSP: Ivanpah, Crescent Dunes Switch On,” Renewable Energy World, 12 February 2014, http://www.renewableenergyworld. com/rea/news/article/2014/02/go-time-for-solar-csp-ivanpah-; “NextEra dedicates 250 MW Genesis CSP Plant,” op. cit. note 1; Abengoa Solar, op. cit. note 1; HeliosCSP, “Ivanpah: World’s Biggest Concentrated Solar Power Tower Project Goes On-Line,” 19 February 2013, http://www.helioscsp.com/noticia. php?id_not=2332. 7 Abengoa Solar, “Solana, the largest parabolic trough plant in the world,” http://www.abengoasolar.com/web/en/nuestras_plantas/ plantas_en_operacion/estados_unidos/; “Abengoa’s Solana Begins Commercial Operation and Marks Major CSP Milestone,” Solar International, 10 October 2013, http://www.solar- international.net/article/78480-Abengoa-acirc-s-Solana-begins- commercial-operation-and-marks-major-CSP-milestone.php. 8 HeliosCSP, op. cit. note 6. 9 Jason Kastrenakes, “This is what the world’s largest solar plant looks like when it’s catching rays,” The Verge, 13 February 2013, http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/13/5408686/ ivanpah-solar-plant-begins-commercial-operation. 10 Crespo, op. cit. note 1. 11 EurObservER, Solar Thermal and Concentrated Solar Power Barometer (Paris: May 2013), http://www.energies-renouvelables. org/observ-er/stat_baro/observ/baro215.pdf.