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Rome to cap solar incentives, minister says

Thursday, 14 April 2011

Italy is poised to become the latest European country to scale back its solar incentive scheme, following similar, dramatic moves by Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom.

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Putting solar power on the roof of the world

Thursday, 24 March 2011 Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., the world's largest producer of solar panels, has announced it will develop a 10-MW solar installation that will generate clean electricity for thousands of residents ...

MiaSolé’s CIGS thin-film closing in on silicon efficiency levels

Friday, 10 December 2010 MiaSolé, the leading manufacturer of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solar panels, has announced that the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory ...

First industrial-scale solar plant blueprinted for South America

Monday, 15 November 2010 The Spanish company, Solarpack, and the Chilean state corporation, Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile (Codelco), have announced that they will collaborate on a solar photovoltaic project. The ...

Without a solar photovoltaic industry, Spain would lose €5 billion by 2020

Thursday, 28 October 2010 A loss of €5 billion. According to a report by the Spanish Photovoltaic Industry Association (ASIF), this would be the total negative macroeconomic impact of "the Spanish PV market disappearing ...

Japan’s Solar Frontier to co-develop IBM’s CZTS solar cell technology

Thursday, 21 October 2010 Solar Frontier, a subsidiary of Japanese energy business Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K., will jointly develop thin-film solar cell technology devised by IBM based on copper, zinc, tin, sulfur, and selenium (CZTS). ...

Solar power for electric vehicles: a force to be reckoned with

Thursday, 07 October 2010 Most of the companies developing photovoltaics have been obsessed with reaching grid parity meaning competitiveness with conventional grid electricity generation which is often highly subsidised. More ...

CIGS to emerge as the major thin-film photovoltaic technology by 2020

Friday, 09 July 2010 GBI Research’s new report, “Thin-film Photovoltaic (PV) Cells Market Analysis to 2020” provides key information and analysis on the market opportunities in the global thin-film solar ...

Masdar PV supplies solar modules for 5 MW solar park in India

Monday, 14 June 2010 Masdar PV, a manufacturer of large area thin-film solar modules has signed a contract for the supply of 5 MW of silicon-based thin-film PV modules for an industrial solar power station in the Indian desert. ...

Germany slashes solar feed-in tariff

Thursday, 21 January 2010 As Renewable Energy Magazine anticipated earlier this week, the German government has announced that feed-in tariffs for solar power will be slashed in order to promote free competition in the world's ...