Aspiring communities across the nation will be able to receive Feed-in Tariff (FITs) payments for the clean green energy generated by larger community energy projects, under new plans set out by the Department of Energy and Climate Change ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, solar PV
There were 5,694 sub 50 kW PV installations registered during the week ending 30th June 2013 (similar to levels seen towards the end of July 2012, before a tariff reduction on 1st August 2012), compared to 3,194 in the week ending 23rd ...
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The UK's leading designer and manufacturer of surplus PV energy controllers will be discussing the future of sustainability at this month's Energy Storage UK exhibition. Robin Whitehead, Sales Manager at 4Eco-immerSUN, will be a keynote ...
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The Morrison's 59-acre Regional Distribution Centre (RDC) in Bridgwater has now been fitted with over 4000 panels to create a PV system that has a capacity of almost 1MW. MD of GMI Energy Carl Nielsen commented "The Morrison's project has ...
Tags: Solar PV System, solar, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Following years of oversupply and unsustainable, often artificially low module pricing, 2013 is expected to be the year that the global solar photovoltaic (PV) market begins to stabilize, says a new report from Navigant Research. ...
Tags: Global Solar, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules integrated into its EnerPlex series of consumer products, has signed a framework agreement ...
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A South Wales manufacturing company is now home to one of Wales' largest rooftop solar panel systems. Asset International Ltd (Asset), which produces Weholite large diameter plastic pipes for the water, housing and construction ...
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Greater collaboration between the established electricity networks sector and the blossoming solar power industry is essential for overcoming barriers to increasing the contribution of solar power to the UK electricity supply. This is the ...
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Conergy has been in negotiations on the short-dated entrance of a strategic investor. The company's creditors however failed to agree on the necessary unitarily and reliable affirmation of the concept in a timely manner. Now, unexpected ...
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The US Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC) - an industry-led collaboration headquartered at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the State University of New York (SUNY) in Albany, NY - has released the first ...
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Taiwan-based solar wafer firm Eversol has announced that operations at a 1.5MW ground-mount solar power plant in Hiroshima, Japan, a project with Japan's West Holdings, kicked off in June 2013 with a daily power generation of up to ...
Tags: solar, Lights, Lighting, Electrical, Electronics
Keith Emery, a principal scientist at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has been awarded the William R. Cherry Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Emery received the award ...
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On 19 June at the 39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC 39) in Tampa, FL, scientist Myles Steiner at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) reported record energy conversion efficiency of ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Electrical, Electronics, cell
July 4,2013-Ontario's clean energy economy continues to grow as the Ontario Power Authority(OPA)offers 951 new Small Feed-in Tariff(FIT)renewable energy contracts.These contracts represent 146.5MW of power,enough to power more than 21,000 ...
Tags: energy economy, clean energy, energy
The Einstein Award for 2013 from solar module maker SolarWorld AG of Bonn Germany has been awarded to professor Eicke R. Weber, director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) Freiburg, Germany (the largest solar energy ...
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