Solar energy is one of the most important renewable energies available in the world. With conventional sources of energy exhausting out fast, it is more important than ever to make use of unconventional sources of energy for a sustainable ...
Tags: Solar Panel, Energy Solutions
As one of four winners in the first round of Sunidarity initiative awards (in December 2012), Paris-based Fondation Énergies pour le Monde (Energy for the World Foundation) has just finished installing a concentrator photovoltaic ...
Tags: CPV System
China has introduced measures to curb photovoltaic overcapacity while seeking to expand domestic deman. China has put forth new rules to tackle overcapacity in its solar power industry. A document released by the Ministry of Industry and ...
Tags: Solar Power, Chemicals
China announced policies on Friday to ramp up support for renewable energy projects, in a bid to curb air pollution. The National Development and Reform Commission issued new subsidy standards for distributed solar power generation ...
Tags: PV power units, PV stations
In the international solar race, it looks like Germany might be winning. The European nation generated a stunning 5.1 tWh in July, breaking all previously-set records. Oh, and that last record? Also set by Germany. So yeah, it's safe to say ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Solar Power
State's support for new environmental initiatives promotes emerging sectors China's investment in renewable energy will bring vast opportunities and challenges for the country's overall development, a senior official said at a recent ...
Tags: renewable energy, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Driven by feed-in tariffs (FITs) and the commoditization of photovoltaic (PV) modules, along with innovative leasing programs for residential solar installations, distributed solar PV systems are expected to see double- and, in some ...
Tags: Solar Power, Lighting
Driven by feed-in tariffs (FITs) and the commoditization of photovoltaic (PV) modules—along with leasing programs for residential solar installations—Navigant Research expects distributed solar PV systems to see double-digit ...
Tags: Solar Power, feed-in tariffs
More than 1,300 gigawatts of wind and solar power generation capacity are expected to come online in the next 10 years, creating an unprecedented amount of instability on the grid - particularly in key markets within North America, Western ...
Tags: Energy Storage Systems, Wind Power
Utility-scale solar power technology firm Solar Systems Pty Ltd of Melbourne, Australia, a subsidiary of Sydney-based Silex Systems Ltd, has officially opened its 1.5MW Mildura Solar Demonstration Facility, Australia's largest concentrated ...
Tags: Solar Systems, Solar, Electrical, Electronics, Solar Plant
The Japan Photovoltaic Energy Association (JPEA) announced in June 2013 that solar cell shipments of first-quarter 2013 in Japan reached 173.4MW, an on-year growth of 342.8%. This shows strong demand for solar in Japan. According to ...
Tags: Grid Capacity, Solar Market
The proportion of UK electricity generated from gas fell to 16-year lows last year as cheaper coal prices spurred generators into increasing coal-fired power to its greatest share of the electricity mix since 1996, government data shows. ...
Tags: Gas-Fired Power, Chemicals
Honda Automobile's Chinese joint venture, Guangqi Honda Automobile (GHAC) has started the construction of a third production line in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province with an investment of CNY59.3bn ($581m). The new production line will ...
Tags: Honda Automobile, joint venture
The European Commission has set out guidelines for investors on the unbundling of electricity and gas grids, setting out when investors can own grid assets as well as interests in gas or power supply, generation or production activities. ...
Tags: European Commission, Chemicals
The merger of Taiwan-based solar cell makers Neo Solar Power (NSP) and DelSolar, a solar subsidiary of Delta Electronics, will be completed on May 31, 2013, said Quincy Lin, chairman and CSO of NSP. Lin added that the merger occurred at a ...