Global electronics conglomerate Panasonic has completed a 500kW solar PV installation at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), as part of the university’s efforts to decarbonise its campus.
30 January, 2013
The global installed capacity of utility-scale solar power stations hit the 9GW mark in 2012 after another record year of installations of power stations rated 10MW and higher, analysis from Wiki-Solar has revealed.
30 January, 2013
The UK Government’s pay-as-you-save scheme, the Green Deal, has gone live, offering domestic households access to energy saving home improvements without any upfront costs for the first time.
30 January, 2013
German energy group Juwi is set to construct five PV projects with a total capacity of 48MW in two provinces in northwestern and eastern Thailand - and in response to Thailand’s 2011 floods it plans to make the projects flood-protected.
25 January, 2013
ABB in Greece has been awarded contracts to supply solar inverters for around 33MW of solar power in different projects across mainland Greece – all of which are due to be commissioned in the coming months.
25 January, 2013
The global growth of renewable energy over the last few years cannot be disputed, but can it really play a major role in the world of large-scale electricity generation?
23 January, 2013
In his inaugural speech for his second term in office, U.S. President Barack Obama has upped the ante, promising to show global leadership on climate change and support the development of clean energy...
23 January, 2013
The 161 MW Spinning Spur Wind Project is located in Oldham County in the Texas Panhandle, and was built by EDF Renewable Energy
23 January, 2013
A new report released on the sidelines of the World Future Energy Summit claims that even if all electricity is to be generated through renewable energy (RE) sources, and with solar photovoltaics (PV) alone, it would take up only an "insignificant" amount of total land area, contrary to common perception.
22 January, 2013
The Chinese end-market dominated shipments of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels during the final quarter of 2012 with 33% of global end-market demand, according to new research released in the NPD Solarbuzz Quarterly report.
22 January, 2013
Dow Corning says it will help support Crystal's venture-funded "breakthrough" technology - a “direct gas to module” process using an epitaxial chemical vapor deposition (CVD) approach.
22 January, 2013
Almost half of all new generating capacity installed in the United States during 2012 was renewable, a new report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has said.
22 January, 2013
Kyocera is to supply solar panels and services to Japan’s first community solar power project in the Wakayama Prefecture and Kyoto city, after signing a supply agreement with the project developers, Kyocera said late last week.
22 January, 2013
Trina Solar has supplied 61MW of PV modules to a large-scale solar project on a former military airfield in the state of Brandenburg, Germany.
22 January, 2013
The UK has launched a national centre for solar PV, in an effort to deliver the government’s goal of 20GW of installed capacity by 2020, up from 1.4GW at present.
22 January, 2013
China has announced it will join the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), a milestone in international efforts to double the share of renewable energy worldwide by 2030.
15 January, 2013
A new publication from Elsevier, developed by the IEA Implementing Agreement for Renewable Energy Technology Deployment (IEA-RETD), explores six policy categories that are "essential" for the acceleration of renewable energy deployment.
15 January, 2013
MidAmerican Renewables has acquired two adjacent solar projects in southern California – together the “largest permitted solar PV development in the world” - from SunPower Corp.
15 January, 2013
French utility EDF has brought its 143MW Catalina solar project in California one step closer to completion with the sale of a majority stake in the scheme, closing financing for the project.
15 January, 2013
Trina Solar is to supply up to 55MW of solar PV modules to renewables developer Anesco over the coming months.
02 January, 2013
Solar firm Ciel et Terre has launched a large-scale floating solar power generation system – the “world’s first”, according to the French company.
02 January, 2013