PV

StratoSolar “kites” could already be producing grid-parity solar energy

Tuesday, 27 September 2011 Toby Price According to Ed Kelly, President of StratoSolar, his company's innovative solar photovoltaic (PV) kites “could already be making electricity cheaper than conventional power plants with today’s PV costs”. ...

Is independence day around the corner for thin film?

Tuesday, 20 September 2011 REM Can thin film PV support itself without subsidies? With the high-profile collapse of Solyndra placing the wider thin film community under scrutiny, thin film specialist event organiser, PV Insider, has ...

Cost of solar electricity to be halved by 2020

Tuesday, 06 September 2011 REM New analysis of major European electricity markets published by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) shows solar photovoltaic electricity (PV) can achieve competitiveness in some market ...

First Solar sets new PV solar cell efficiency record

Tuesday, 26 July 2011 REM First Solar, Inc. has set a new world record for cadmium-telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) solar cell efficiency, reaching 17.3 percent with a test cell constructed using commercial-scale manufacturing ...

Breaking PV cell efficiency records, driving down costs

Thursday, 07 July 2011 Toby Price Semiconductor component manufacturer, centrotherm photovoltaics, believes photovoltaic system costs could fall by around 20 percent by 2013, generating billions of euros of savings worldwide. In its drive ...

Converteam reaches 100MWp just 18 months after entering the European market

Wednesday, 29 June 2011 REM Less than eighteen months after entering the solar photovoltaic (PV) market, power conversion specialist Converteam is pleased to announce it has reached 100MWp cumulated orders of its inverter solutions ...

Italy

Gehrlicher Solar: “Country on the way to becoming a natural photovoltaic market”

Wednesday, 08 June 2011 Toby Price By the end of August Gehrlicher Solar in Italy will have connected photovoltaic systems to the power grid with a total power of around 20 MWp. The company forecasts sales potential in the high double-digit ...

Europe

Solar PV sector installs more capacity than any other source during 2010

Tuesday, 17 May 2011 Toby Price According to the latest Solar Photovoltaic Barometer released this month by EurObserv’ER, 13,023 MWp of photovoltaic modules were connected to the grid in the European Union during 2010, which is ...

PV market experiences “unprecedented growth” says EPIA

Wednesday, 04 May 2011 Toby Price EPIA, the European Photovoltaic Industry Association, has published its Global Market Outlook for Photovoltaics until 2015, announcing that photovoltaic power is “well on the way to contributing ...

India

SunBorne and Suntech to partner on 100 MW of solar projects

Tuesday, 03 May 2011

SunBorne Energy and Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd will supply 100 MW of solar panels over the next two years for projects in India.