PV

The heat is on, says EPIA executive, and not just because it's summer

Thursday, 12 July 2012 Toby Price In a recent newsletter editorial, Reinhold Buttgereit, Secretary General of the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) gave some headline figures showing how the solar industry is increasingly ...

Spain

A new wave of PV

Thursday, 24 May 2012 Antonio Barrero F. Gehrlicher, Gestamp, Würth, Juwi, SunEdison, etc. All these companies and some others are currently developing solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays of over a hundred megawatts: solar arrays that, subsequent ...

Solar power achieves “remarkable” growth but now at crossroads, says EPIA

Friday, 11 May 2012 REM The European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) has released its “Global Market Outlook for Photovoltaics Until 2016”, an authoritative analysis of PV markets in Europe and around the world; ...

Japan

Solar and wind power to benefit from new Japanese FiT

Tuesday, 27 March 2012 REM The new Japan feed-in-tariff (FiT) scheme offers attractive returns for solar and wind projects, setting the stage for renewables to become an important source of electricity, says Bloomberg New Energy ...

Germany

Country needs to protect solar leadership, warns analyst

Monday, 26 March 2012 REM As a global leader in research on the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry, Renewable Analytics feels compelled to address political leaders in Germany regarding several key points to put emphasis on the rights ...

Germany

Solar industry takes to streets over tariff cuts

Thursday, 08 March 2012 Toby Price According to the German Solar Industry Association (BSW-Solar), around 11,000 people converged on the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Monday to protest against the phase-out of feed-in tariffs for solar ...

United States

Experts join effort to develop see-through organic PV “windows”

Friday, 06 January 2012 REM The US outfit, New Energy Technologies, has hired two former NREL scientists to advance technology able to generate electricity on see-through glass. Dr. Scott R. Hammond has been appointed as Principal ...

India

Buoyant mood at Intersolar India in December

Thursday, 05 January 2012 REM Jai Rathod, a founding member of a leading renewable energy advisory firm in India, attended the recent Intersolar India conference and exhibition. He reports back to us on developments at the event, which ...

Canadian power firm buys first solar farms

Wednesday, 21 December 2011 REM

TransCanada Corp., the largest independent power producer in Ontario, Canada, has agreed to purchase not one but nine solar facilities from Canadian Solar Inc. for a reported $456 million.

100%+ solar cell efficiency possible

Tuesday, 20 December 2011 REM Researchers from the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have reported the first solar cell that produces a photocurrent that has an external quantum efficiency greater ...