PV

First international marketplace for PV projects goes online

Thursday, 17 March 2011 ProjectForum4t2 has launched “the world’s first professional online marketplace for trading solar photovoltaic (PV) projects”, which the company says “will bring clarity and structure ...

Siliken PV modules come out tops in Photon study

Monday, 14 March 2011 Since 2005, Photon Laboratory has been carrying out exhaustive testing of the performance of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules from the world's best manufacturers. Recently it announced the results of the ...

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 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 ...

EPIA warns Europe to carefully consider methods of financing solar PV before acting

Friday, 04 March 2011 Toby Price Back in January, the European Commission (EC) released a communication entitled “Renewable Energy: Progressing to 2020”, in which it suggests ways to ensure a more cost-effective financing ...

PV still leading renewable energy technology in 2010

Wednesday, 02 March 2011 The European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) has released new figures that will be included in its EPIA Global Market Outlook until 2015 showing that solar photovoltaic power (PV) was the leading ...

germany to slash solar subsidies 15 percent

Friday, 25 February 2011

German lawmakers have approved a law cutting solar power subsidies by up to 15 percent from this summer, six months earlier than originally planned.

Feed-in tariff spurs development of region’s first major industrial PV array

Thursday, 24 February 2011 Described as “the biggest commercial photovoltaic installation in England so far”, the 1.16-MW photovoltaic (PV) array is being erected in Somerset in the south west of England. The array has ...

20 percent efficiency in sight for silicon solar cells

Wednesday, 23 February 2011 A team of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE has succeeded in reaching new peak efficiencies for large-area easy-to-fabricate silicon solar cells. Using advanced cell ...

India

Schott Solar break three records in one with 20-MW thin-film order

Friday, 18 February 2011 Schott Solar has signed a deal to supply 200,000 Schott ASI thin-film photovoltaic modules to India’s Premier Solar. As well as being Schott Solar’s largest order so far in Asia, it is also ...