PV

Swedish Housing Block Powered 100 Percent by Sun and Hydrogen

Friday, 21 December 2018 REM The world's first energy self-sufficient housing complex located in Vårgårda, Sweden, now runs entirely on solar energy and stored hydrogen as the result of a Danish-Swedish partnership between Better ...

India

REC solar panels bring clean energy to remote Himalayan communities

Thursday, 20 December 2018 Robin Whitlock REC Group recently reported on its iniatives to bring clean energy to communities that were previously reliant on polluting sources of power, marking the United Nations Global Climate Summit in Katowice, ...

Time for Solar to go Solo According to North Wales Renewable Energy Expert

Wednesday, 19 December 2018 REM “It’s time for solar power to go solo and axe the cash incentives” according to one of North Wales’s leading renewable energy providers. David Jones, Managing Director of Denbigh-based Hafod Renewables, ...

Government confirms closure of export payment for new solar generators as Greenpeace and STA protest

Tuesday, 18 December 2018 Robin Whitlock The UK Government has published their response to the consultation on the Feed-in Tariff today, which delivers another disappointing blow to the solar industry and to the general public who want to engage ...

Large-scale solar could soon be the cheapest electricity generation technology in the UK

Thursday, 13 December 2018 Robin Whitlock The Solar Trade Association (STA) has conducted a fresh assessment of large-scale solar costs, which was explored with leading energy analysts and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy ...

Desert Solar Initiative to Make Africa a Renewable Energy Powerhouse

Monday, 10 December 2018 Dan McCue Solar projects stretching across the Sahel region in Africa are expected to connect 250 million people with electricity by tapping into the region’s abundant solar resource. The details of the “Desert ...

Captona Commissions Four New Solar Farms in Rhode Island

Wednesday, 05 December 2018 REM Captona Partners has begun commercial operation of four of its solar assets located in Rhode Island under the state’s Renewable Energy Growth (REG) program, further expanding the company’s North American ...

Recurrent Energy Signs PPA with California’s Stanford University

Monday, 03 December 2018 Dan McCue

Stanford University in California has signed a 25-year power purchase agreement with Recurrent Energy for the 63 MWac/88 MWp Stanford Solar Generating Station #2.

Brazil

Scatec Solar’s first solar plant in Brazil in commercial operation

Monday, 03 December 2018 Robin Whitlock

Scatec Solar, with partners Equinor and Apodi Par, pleased to announce that the 162 MW Apodi Solar plant is now grid connected and in commercial operation.

JinkoSolar Posts Robust Growth in the Third Quarter of 2018

Tuesday, 27 November 2018 REM JinkoSolar has published its unaudited financial results for the third quarter ending September 30, 2018. Total solar module shipments hit record high of 2,953 MW, an increase of 5.7 percent sequentially ...