PV

North Carolina firm wins contract to create largest solar farm in Southeast

Monday, 30 May 2011 Dan McCue Baker Renewable Energy, based in the city of Raleigh in the US state of North Carolina, has won the contract to install approximately 10 acres of solar panels on the roof of the Boeing Co.'s new 787 Dreamliner ...

Spain

T-Solar and GDF Suez team up to offer renewables control services

Wednesday, 18 May 2011 Toby Price The T-Solar Group and GDF Suez Energía España have just signed a commercial agreement to offer a real-time remote metering and control service to special regime (i.e. renewable energy and ...

Innotech Solar uses special glass to boost PV yields

Wednesday, 04 May 2011 The Norwegian company Innotech Solar is to showcase the new polycrystalline ITS Economy Module Series at Intersolar 2011 in June. The modules are manufactured in Sweden and feature specially textured glass ...

Spain

Spanish government may have to amend RDL 14/2010

Monday, 04 April 2011 A group of foreign investors in the Spanish solar photovoltaic (PV) market has appointed an international law firm to advise them on possible legal action to claim damages from the Spanish government resulting ...

Italy

Italian PV market attracting yet more solar “Made in Spain”

Monday, 07 March 2011 Toby Price Since the Spanish solar photovoltaic (PV) market was decimated by unfavourable legislative changes in 2009 and ongoing uncertainties regarding the retroactive application of cuts to feed-in tariffs, a ...

Eurosolar now accepting applications for 2011 European Solar Prize

Wednesday, 16 February 2011 Toby Price Just a couple of months after Renewable Energy Magazine and its sister publications Energías renovables and amERica were awarded the European Solar Prize by the European Association for Renewable ...

MENA

Has the solar boom begun in North Africa?

Friday, 11 February 2011 Considering the recent civil unrest in North Africa, one may be forgiven for thinking that the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) would be one of the last places solar investors would be looking to, but ...

Italy

Soltec begins construction of 1 MW PV facility in Italy

Wednesday, 09 February 2011

Spain-based Soltec Renewable Energies, the multinational manufacturer of solar energy technologies based in Murcia, Spain, has begun construction of a 1 MW PV plant in Lecce, Italy.

Spanish congress approves royal decree described as “the photovoltaic sector’s ruin”

Friday, 28 January 2011 They may have been 200 metres away from the Spanish Congress, but their cries in defence of the photovoltaics sector were heard by those inside, when around fifty people came together yesterday to protest ...

Sánchez Galán requests the Government puts brakes on solar energy deployment

Monday, 25 October 2010 Iberdrola's Chairman has lashed out against solar energy – photovoltaic and solar thermal electric – which he accuses of provoking the tariff deficit in the Spanish electricity system. ...