PV

Solar Frontier signs distribution deal with Italian firm

Friday, 08 April 2011 Solar Frontier, a provider of solar energy solutions, has signed a contract with Italian photovoltaic (PV) distributor DW Europe to expand its CIS solar module marketing and sales in the Mediterranean. ...

feed-in tariff uncertainty spreads in Europe

Tuesday, 05 April 2011 The European PV market is in a unique and continuing state of flux, with 2010 global installations amounting to 15.7 GW. German installations have set the record again with 3.9 GW in the first half of ...

Spain

Spanish government may have to amend RDL 14/2010

Monday, 04 April 2011 A group of foreign investors in the Spanish solar photovoltaic (PV) market has appointed an international law firm to advise them on possible legal action to claim damages from the Spanish government resulting ...

Solar tariff review puts burgeoning industry in ‘limbo’

Wednesday, 30 March 2011 The UK's Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Chris Hulne, has cited the need to review the solar feed-in tariff targets due to the unprecedented amount of large scale solar developments in the pipeline. ...

France

Largest photovoltaic array planned for Haute-Loire region

Tuesday, 29 March 2011 Phoenix Solar AG, a leading international photovoltaic system integrator, has signed an agreement with LHI Leasing GmbH (LHI) for the turnkey construction of a solar park in France with a peak power of ...

Germany

Another record-breaking year for PV market leader

Tuesday, 29 March 2011 The Federal Network Agency has published December figures for newly installed solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity showing 7.25 GWp of new capacity was installed in Germany in 2010. This is equivalent to ...

German solar company sees potential in Turkey, UK and China

Wednesday, 09 March 2011 As the German solar photovoltaic (PV) market matures, IBC Solar is expanding its international operations with new affiliates in Turkey, the United Kingdom and China “in order to exploit the PV potential ...

Italy

Italian PV market attracting yet more solar “Made in Spain”

Monday, 07 March 2011 Toby Price Since the Spanish solar photovoltaic (PV) market was decimated by unfavourable legislative changes in 2009 and ongoing uncertainties regarding the retroactive application of cuts to feed-in tariffs, a ...

Italy announces feed-in tariff reductions, rates undetermined

Friday, 04 March 2011 Officials from Italy's Ministry for Economic Development and Ministry for the Environment and the have reached an agreement with Gruppo Imprese Fotovoltaiche Italiane (GIFI), the country's PV industry ...

World Wildlife Fund calls for greater investment in renewables in South Africa

Thursday, 24 February 2011

The World Wildlife Fund for Nature has called on South Africa to include greater investment in renewable energy as part of its plan to move toward a green economy.