Following Greg Barker's (Minister of State, Department of Energy & Climate Change) announcement of the UK's solar energy roadmap at Solar Energy UK this week, the Minister visited Bentley Motor's factory in Crewe to tour their impressive ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Global market revenues for solar photovoltaic (PV) inverters will drop by 9% in 2013, due to rapid price declines for commercial and utility-scale inverters and intense cost pressure in mature markets such as Germany and Italy, according to ...
During the third quarter of 2013, end-market demand from the global solar PV industry reached a new record of 9GW. This record demand is up 6% on quarter and almost 20% on year, according to Solarbuzz. Both mid-year quarters, ...
Currently the smallest part of the global solar energy storage business, the commercial segment, is projected to expand by a factor of 700 in the coming years and become the largest market segment in 2017, according to IMS Research. ...
Tags: Solar Energy, Lighting
BISOL group has introduced a new range of colour combinations of BISOL Spectrum PV modules for listed buildings and conservation areas. To-date we have witnessed an admirable uptake of photovoltaics on residential and commercial ...
Tags: PV Modules, Construction, 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 ...
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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 ...
China's National Energy Administration has selected 18 initial demonstration zones for installing distributed PV systems during 2013-2015, with total installation reaching 1.823GWp, of which 749MWp will be completed in 2013, according to ...
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA and Ingenero Pty Ltd of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia have announced a new collaboration arrangement to provide a joint offering to the commercial and off-grid solar markets. The partnership will combine ...
Tags: Solar, Electrical, Electronics
Neo Solar Power has obtained orders in excess of its production capacity and expects to run at full utilization through the end of 2013, according to company chairman Quincy Lin. Neo Solar has signed long-term supply contracts with ...
Tags: Neo Solar Power, PV module
The market for residential photovoltaic (PV) energy storage systems is expected to boom in the coming years, with cumulative installations amounting to 2.5 gigawatts by 2017, equivalent to the solar power that could be generated by more ...
The European Union (EU) and the China government have reached a consensus about minimum prices and an annual quota to be set on PV modules imported from China to resolve anti-dumping disputes, and this is expected to benefit Taiwan-based ...
Tags: Solar Cell, PV Settlement
TSMC Solar, a CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-selenide) thin-film PV module maker established by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), aims to hike energy conversion rates from 15.7% recorded in mid-June 2013 to 17% in 2014, ...
Tags: PV Modules, TSMC Solar
Cameron visited the Oxfordshire-based broker of polythene films and bags last Friday (5 July). The company said that David Cameron gave much praise on the company's green-mission during his visit on Friday, complimenting the new ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, LED Lighting
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 ...
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