Yingli in the first half of 2013 rode the wave of solar growth in its home market in China to retain the dominant position in the global business for photovoltaic (PV) modules, according to IHS. The company shipped 1,450 megawatts worth ...
Tags: Solar Module, Electrical
Monmouthshire Housing Association appointed leading social housing contractor Forrest to complete the installation programme by September this year. Enfinity has been selected by Forrest to supply over 1.7MW of high performance modules ...
Tags: PV, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
juwi, one of Europe's leading renewable energy installers, has entered into a project agreement with the UK's largest solar energy generator, Lightsource Renewable Energy, who has purchased two large-scale solar farms. The installed ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, solar
BNRG Renewables has obtained a 25-year planning permission from Shepway District Council's Development Control Committee for its proposed 18MW solar array in Old Romney in Kent. The Committee voted 15 votes to one to support the scheme ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, PV Solar
Eaton will be presenting, at this year's Solar Energy UK exhibition, a comprehensive portfolio of products and solutions that have been specifically developed to facilitate the grid connection of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy sources. ...
Tags: Class, Construction, solar
One year on from establishing its pan-European headquarters in London, Sharp Energy Solutions Europe confirms its commitment to the European solar market with an announcement that its PV factory is running at near full production (400 MW). ...
Tags: Solar, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Eaton has launched an addition to its established SOL30-SAFETY PV fireman's switch and now offers turnkey solutions in the form of ready to install and connect device combinations. The new SOL30X PV fireman's switch features 2, 3, 4 or 6 ...
Tags: PV generator, Energy
Advanced test instrumentation has helped a UK-based solar PV specialist to significantly improve the electricity supply on two off-grid Hebridean Islands. Renewables specialist Wind & Sun Ltd. has recently completed two new innovative ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The US installed 832MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) in the second quarter of 2013, representing 15% growth over the first quarter of the year. It was solar's second best quarter ever, according to a new report released by GTM Research and the ...
Tags: Solar PV, Electrical
VDE Americas (a subsidiary of Germany's VDE Testing and Certification Institute) and First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, ...
Utility pull drives US solar market to new high 10 Sep 2013 California leads installations and First Solar remains the largest module provider. First Solar modules Nearly a gigawatt of solar photovoltaic (PV) generating capacity was ...
Tags: Solar Market, Lights, Lighting
Worldwide market shipments of solar photovoltaic (PV) inverters declined 5% on year in the second quarter - the first such decrease since the third quarter of 2011 - as demand fell in key Europe countries, according to IMS Research. PV ...
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, and BELECTRIC Holding GmbH are to undertake a joint ...
Tags: PV Projects, Solar
Phoenix Contact’s Solarcheck modular monitoring system reliably provides information about the operating conditions on the DC side of photovoltaic systems. By localising faults in individual strings, this system makes it possible to ...
Motech Industries plans to expand its PV module production capacity in fourth-quarter 2013 and crystalline silicon solar cell capacity in 2014, according to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN). Motech currently has annual ...