SunPower has announced the completion of the 1 MW Uterne tracking solar power plant in Alice Springs.
29 July, 2011
The 17.3% efficiency mark for cadmium-telluride (CdTe) solar photovoltaic (PV) cells has been confirmed by NREL.
28 July, 2011
Shipments of smart solar photovoltaic (PV) inverters are forecast to grow to 27 GW by 2015, according to IMS Research
28 July, 2011
Thermax and Amonix have signed a deal to bring concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) technology to India.
27 July, 2011
UK companies with ideas to tackle climate change can now apply for Shell Springboard awards of up to £40,000.
27 July, 2011
SunPower’s preliminary second quarter results reflect changing market conditions and policies in Germany and Italy.
27 July, 2011
DuPont has expanded its solar photovoltaic (PV) materials portfolio with the acquisition of Innovalight.
27 July, 2011
The new solar research and production centre in Germany will be powered by photovoltaic (PV) energy.
26 July, 2011
Centrosolar Group’s annual revenue forecast has been downgraded by approximately 20% following a reduction in market prices.
26 July, 2011
Solarplaza has found that the top 10 solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturers alone (in terms of 2011 announced module production capacity) could have met 2010 global module demand.
25 July, 2011
IMS Research has found solar photovoltaic (PV) suppliers engaged in a price war and unable to reduce their costs as quickly as their prices.
25 July, 2011
A new map developed by 3TIER appears to show correlation between a drop in Australia’s solar energy and the 2010 floods.
22 July, 2011
Solar manufacturer ReneSola claims to have sold over 50 MW of its new Virtus solar modules and wafers.
21 July, 2011
The multi-purpose solar shelter can be used in public places and is available for the Japanese market.
21 July, 2011
Developer Q-Cells will sell the park to MCG Management Capital Group, and the turnkey handover will take place imminently.
20 July, 2011
The money will go towards developing the NSL Group’s wind, hydro and solar energy projects in India.
20 July, 2011
Munich Re and KKR have bought a stake in solar photovolatic (PV) producer Grupo T-Solar.
20 July, 2011
The REC Group says the solar market weakened significantly in the second quarter of 2011.
20 July, 2011
Suntech's new 300W solar module can achieve up to 15.5% conversion efficiency.
19 July, 2011
The CSP solar thermal power plant in Andalusia, southern Spain has produced solar generated steam during a test phase, in which the rows of parabolic mirrors were aligned with the sun.
19 July, 2011
German football club Borussia Dortmund is joining Q-Cells to promote solar energy.
18 July, 2011
The solar deal is part of the company's plans to expand into South-East Asia.
15 July, 2011
The new Algerian plant will generate electricity from both solar energy and natural gas.
15 July, 2011
10,000 polymer solar cell-powered torches were manufactured and given away.
15 July, 2011
The 5 MW solar power plant in Nottinghamshire was built in just 6 weeks.
15 July, 2011
Concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) specialist QuantaSol has been bought for US$638,000.
14 July, 2011
Renewable energy supplied 16% of global final energy consumption and almost 20% of electricity production in 2010, according to REN21.
13 July, 2011
EuPD Research has branded Sharp Energy Solution Europe as a leading solar photovoltaic (PV) module producer.
13 July, 2011
The SolarWorld bond is likely to be listed on the Luxembourg stock exchange.
11 July, 2011
The building integrated solar photovoltics (BIPV) market could reach US$11 billion by 2016, a report predicts.
11 July, 2011
SunBorne Energy is part of an R&D project looking into solar thermal in India, co-funded by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and the Government of India.
06 July, 2011
Siemens Energy will supply and build the 50 MW Termosolar Olivenza 1 solar concentrating power (CSP) plant in Extremadura, Spain, for Spanish EPC UTE Termosolar Olivenza.
05 July, 2011
UK’s main opposition party, Labour, is questioning the Government’s move to substantially cut solar feed-in tariffs for installations over 50 kW.
05 July, 2011
Centrosolar has delivered solar photovoltaic (PV) modules for a solar plant for SOS Children’s Village in Mombasa, Kenya.
04 July, 2011
India’s first national solar policy is targeting 22 GW of installed solar capacity by 2022, 2 GW of which will be off-grid while the remaining 20 GW will be grid-connected.
04 July, 2011
What could be the world's largest HIT (Heterojunction with Intrinsic Thin layer) tracking solar project, with an overall system size of 7.56 MW, has been completed in Torre Santa Susanna, Italy.
04 July, 2011
Following the sale of its shares in the joint venture production site in South Korea, SolarWorld is focusing on its production sites in Germany and the US.
01 July, 2011
Abengoa has completed financing on two 50 MW concentrating solar power (CSP) plants in Spain.
01 July, 2011