Solar photovoltaic (PV) demand from the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region is set to grow 50% on year in 2014. Between 2014-2018, annual PV demand will nearly triple as the MEA region becomes a key market for the global industry, according ...
Trina Solar Limited announced two of its PV power plants in the United Kingdom have successfully completed connection to the grid. The company is an investor in and sole project developer for these projects, which have a total capacity of ...
Tags: Solar, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
One part power electronics and one part networking and communications technology, microinverters and DC optimizers (commonly referred to as module-level power electronics, or MLPEs) are playing an increasingly significant role in ...
Tags: renewable energy, Microinverters, DC Power
Solar photovoltaic (PV) projects between 250kW and 5MW now account for almost half of the yet-to-be-completed 4,300 commercial and utility projects within the leading PV countries, according to Solarbuzz. The leading countries for solar ...
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In the presence of guests from Germany and South Africa(including politicians,business and technical partners),Photovoltaic Technology Intellectual Property(Pty)Ltd(PTiP)-a spin-off from the University of Johannesburg-has officially ...
Tags: Singulus CIGS/CIS PV, CIGS, solar module
Countervailing, antidumping duties to be levied if injury to US found Chinese companies are actively responding to the latest United States anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation in the solar products field, aiming to prove they did ...
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After two years of a punishing downturn, the global solar industry is on the rebound, said Ash Sharma, senior research director for solar at IHS. "Worldwide PV installations are set to rise by double digits in 2014, solar manufacturing ...
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Feed-in tariffs (FIT) have been the preferred policy in many regions of the world to help support investors to rapidly increase installation of renewable energy installations projects and markets. Under most FITs, homeowners, businesses, ...
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Solar photovoltaic (PV) demand in 2014 will be dominated by the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, which will account for approximately 50% of all new solar PV demand during the year. According to findings from Solarbuzz, almost 95% of new solar ...
ASTM International (ASTM) the international industry standards group has published the E2939-13 Standard Practice for Determining Reporting Conditions and Expected Capacity for Photovoltaic (PV) Non-Concentrator Systems. This is a new ...
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The Swiss inverter manufacturer Sputnik Engineering (SolarMax) is carrying out five large-scale photovoltaics projects in the London area in cooperation with partner companies. For the projects, a total of 127 SolarMax 360TS-SV central ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA says that its cadmium telluride thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules will power four solar energy plants in France, with a combined capacity of 48MW. Developed and owned by independent renewable energy ...
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British Solar Renewables confirms innovative joint venture with Santander to invest in the construction of 56.5MW of UK Solar PV projects at three sites across the UK. The sites are located in areas with high light levels in West ...
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Lux Research expects hybrid gas/solar technologies to mitigate intermittency of the renewable resource. Solar-generated electricity will become just as cheap as that produced by natural gas in most parts of the world by 2025, according to ...
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A lack of certainty in renewable energy policy and expertise of renewable energy projects are holding institutional investors back according to a new EY survey released today. Of the 75 North American and European major pension and ...
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