PV

PassivSystems adds benchmarking to solar-pv monitoring technology

Wednesday, 18 January 2012 REM

PassivSystems, a UK-based energy management and monitoring company, will include new benchmarking metrics to the latest iteration of its solar-monitoring platform.

Masdar, Siemens collaborate to reduce water use by solar plants

Wednesday, 18 January 2012 REM Siemens Energy and Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in the UAE have signed a one-year agreement for cooperation in solar energy technology research and development to enhance the use of photovoltaic ...

Bringing the butterfly effect to life

Tuesday, 17 January 2012 Toby Price In chaos theory, the butterfly effect describes how a small change in state at one location can result in large differences elsewhere. The same can be said of innovation in the field of renewables. But ...

Germany

solarSTEP group, Frontier Renewables complete 1-MW rootop array

Monday, 16 January 2012 REM solarSTEP GmbH & Co. KG, a German engineering, procurement and construction company, and German-American utility-scale solar project developer, Frontier Renewables, have completed a 1-MWp solar photovoltaic ...

Solectria Renewables bucks trend, expands workforce

Thursday, 12 January 2012 REM

Solectria Renewables, LLC, a leading US-based pv inverter manufacturer, bucked the industry trend and actually expanded its workforce by 65 percent in 2011, the company announced today.

United States

Strong growth to continue in US, says pv event chairman

Tuesday, 10 January 2012 REM As the US pv sector’s annual pv installation output has reached a terawatthour scale, PHOTON – the world's leading pv publisher – is organizing its Solar Terawatt-hours Conference Series in San Francisco, ...

Dubai launches solar park to boost sustainability

Monday, 09 January 2012 REM Dubai, the Emirate synonymous with big ideas and ambitious architecture, has launched the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, a facility Dubai’s Supreme Council of Energy that will be operated ...

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 ...

The Netherlands

Dutch head for the sun

Thursday, 05 January 2012 Toby Price The Netherlands is not known for its sun, but the Dutch have become established as solar photovoltaic (pv) equipment manufacturers. TULiPPS Solar is one of the newest companies there to begin pv module ...