PV

California governor revives solar incentive program

Friday, 23 September 2011 Dan McCue California Governor Jerry Brown in the US has authorized the use of nearly $200 million by the California Solar Initiative to support the installation of 3,000 MW of solar photovoltaic systems across the ...

India latest country to benefit from online solar planning tools

Thursday, 22 September 2011 Toby Price Solar photovoltaic developers in India, one of the most recent and potentially largest markets to join the solar revolution, can now better plan their arrays using SolarGIS, GeoModel Solar’s cutting-edge ...

Solar Frontier secures 30 MW deal in India

Wednesday, 21 September 2011 REM

Solar Frontier, the Japanese photovoltaic developer, has closed deals to supply copper indium selenide (CIS) solar modules with a combined capacity of 30MW for projects in India.

High-efficiency PV production focus of IPVEA at EU PVSEC

Wednesday, 21 September 2011 REM The PV Production Forum 2011 took place in the framework of the 26th European photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (26th EU PVSEC) in Hamburg (Germany) earlier this month, to examine the ...

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 ...

Breakthrough in sight for new cheaper solar cells

Monday, 19 September 2011 REM Last week, Renewable Energy Magazine reported on a breakthrough made by Berkley Lab using nanowires. Today, it is the turn of researchers at the University of Surrey (England) who have reported a novel ...

REC wins award on achieving one-year energy payback period

Monday, 19 September 2011 REM Earlier this month, the Norwegian solar module producer, REC, received the 2011 Solar Industry Award for its proprietary Fluidized Bed Reactor (FBR) Process, which significantly reduces the energy required ...

Belgium

Brussels luxury hotel to begin producing green energy

Friday, 16 September 2011 REM Hotel and resort Dolce La Hulpe Brussels is set to become a green-energy producer, having equipped its roof with more than 1,000 photovoltaic solar panels with a total capacity of 250,000 Wp. The panels ...

Nanowire solar cells “truly promising” for PV’s future

Friday, 16 September 2011 REM A team from Berkeley Lab has developed an inexpensive technique for making high quality nanowire solar cells, which could help to cut photovoltaic (PV) solar cell production costs while maintaining cell ...

PV Cycle's new President to bring in “new era” of recycling standards

Tuesday, 13 September 2011 Toby Price It was announced during the 26th EU PVSEC in Hamburg last week that Wilfried Taetow of Sanyo Component has been elected as the new President of PV Cycle. Taetow reveals that strengthening PV Cycle’s ...