Solar electricity News for January 2016

Solar electricity News Archive

Solopower Systems achieves key milestone with first commercial deployment in South Africa Solopower Systems achieves key milestone with first commercial deployment in South Africa

SoloPower Systems has announced the completion of its first commercial-scale deployment in South Africa.

Solar and mining industry should team up, according to report

THEnergy and SolarPower Europe have teamed up to identify some key opportunities for solar companies to tap the potential of the mining sector for solar development.

Solar power capacity crosses milestone of 5,000 MW in India

The installed capacity of solar power in India has crossed the milestone of 5,000 MW.

Launch of largest power plants in Australia doubles country’s large-scale solar Launch of largest power plants in Australia doubles country’s large-scale solar

The Clean Energy Council has congratulated its members AGL and First Solar on the launch of the large-scale solar power plants in Broken Hill and Nyngan, which have doubled the amount of large-scale solar built in Australia.

Construction work begins on Djibouti’s first solar power plant

Plans for the construction of a solar power plant in Grand Bara in southern Djibouti are now underway.

Vattenfall springs into action on Carmarthenshire solar power project

Vattenfall plans to start construction of its first UK solar power project later this month, generating first power by March this year.

Gamesa receives new solar order in India

Gamesa has received a new order in India from renewable energy developer New Era Enviro for the development of 23 MW of solar power capacity across three projects located in the state of Telangana.

Renewable power generation in UK grows to same level as nuclear amid continued demise of coal

Renewables generated nearly as much electricity as nuclear sources in the UK during 2015, prompting the continued fall in power supply from coal-fired power stations, according to the latest report from EnAppSys.

GlobalData reports 2015 saw China push global renewable installed capacity beyond 900 gigawatts GlobalData reports 2015 saw China push global renewable installed capacity beyond 900 gigawatts

GlobalData has revealed that China was the world’s leading market across a number of renewable energy technologies in 2015 and helped to drive global renewable installed capacity to an estimated 913.48 Gigawatts (GW).

Renusol enters South African solar market

Renusol has agreed to supply its innovative solutions for mounting photovoltaic modules on roofs to South African wholesaler Lumax Energy.

Lightsource connects 23 new solar sites

Lightsource Renewable Energy connected 23 new sites in December totalling more than 100MW of new capacity.

Johns Hopkins Medicine announces plans to go solar Johns Hopkins Medicine announces plans to go solar

Johns Hopkins has announced a new solar project that will produce affordable and reliable solar energy to power to its facilities.

SES and SOLARKIOSK sign agreement to bring internet to under-served villages worldwide

SES Techcom Services and SOLARKIOSK AG have announced that they have entered into a two-year partnership to deliver high-quality connectivity to communities worldwide.

Alaska housing development embraces solar and PV as source of heat and electricity

A new housing project in Anchorage has been designed to generate electricity and heat from solar energy.