Speaking at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum in New York City, International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka, said that renewable energy sources have a "key role to play with respect to both energy security and climate change".
29 June, 2009
In a presentation before US policymakers and analysts, leading clean energy CEOs, venture capitalists and academics unveiled the “Gigaton Throwdown,” an assessment of the US’ clean energy potential.
24 June, 2009
Photovoltaic (PV) solar electricity is poised to become a significant and competitive supplier to the European electricity market, concludes a study conducted by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) with the strategic management consultancy A.T. Kearney.
22 June, 2009
A plan proposed by Southern California Edison (SCE) for the largest US installation of advanced solar panels on otherwise unused large commercial rooftops across Southern California was approved today by the California Public Utilities Commission.
18 June, 2009
The development of smaller ferroelectric capacitors with additional capacity is at least partly held up by the presence of a ‘dead layer’ at the surface.
18 June, 2009
Southern California Edison (SCE) has signed agreements with wind and solar suppliers for up to 960 MW of clean, renewable power.
17 June, 2009
German Oerlikon Systems demonstrated SOLARIS, last month, a new production solution that, according to the company, simplifies the manufacturing of crystalline solar cells.
16 June, 2009
Californian National Semiconductor and the crystalline silicon solar photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer, Suntech Power Holdings, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to evaluate National Semiconductor’s SolarMagic™ technology for enhancing solar efficiencies.
16 June, 2009
Italian turnkey supplier of solar systems and plants, Enerqos, has started the construction of four 1 MW solar farms representing €1 billion of investment, in Apulia, Italy, for NextEnergy Capital, the European merchant bank specialising in renewable energy.
15 June, 2009
Solar thin-film silicon photovoltaic (PV) production equipment provider, Oerlikon Solar, it has been listed as the number one solar turnkey line supplier globally by market research and economic analysis company VLSI.
12 June, 2009
Phoenix Solar is building a 5.8 MWp solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant on behalf of utility Enovos Group in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
11 June, 2009
CENTROSOLAR has found a new partner for the continuation of the Itarion solar cell company and the planned solar cell plant located near Porto, Portugal.
11 June, 2009
E.ON has inaugurated its first solar farm near the southern French town of Le Lauzet, some 150 km north of Marseille with a capacity of 5 MW and distributed across a 20 hectares area.
08 June, 2009
Sharp is urging South Africa to include solar photovoltaics (PV) into its recent renewable energy feed-in tariff.
08 June, 2009
CENTROSOLAR is closing the solar module plant in Doesburg, the Netherlands, run by its 100% subsidiary Ubbink Solar Modules BV (USM), as a repercussion to the financing problems at renewable energy developer Econcern.
05 June, 2009
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says US$155 billion was invested in 2008 in clean energy companies and projects worldwide - not including large hydro – an increase over 2007, but growth is slowing with the economic crisis.
05 June, 2009
The United Arab Emirates (UAE)'s bid to host the headquarters of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is a major boost for the developing world in the global quest for a sustainable future, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said.
05 June, 2009
Abu Dhabi-based solar integrator Enviromena Power Systems has completed the Masdar 10 MW solar power plant, the largest grid-connected solar system in the Middle East and North Africa.
05 June, 2009
The US Department of Energy’s (DoE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) will cooperate on renewable energy research areas such as policy studies, energy analysis, wind energy and solar photovoltaic (PV) energy.
04 June, 2009
Oerlikon Solar, a leading supplier of thin-film silicon photovoltaic (PV) process and production equipment, has been named winner of the 2009 CELL AWARD, presented at the Intersolar 2009 Conference in Munich.
04 June, 2009
First Solar will provide solar photovoltaic (PV) modules under a long-term supply agreement to Pfalzsolar, a German solar project developer owned by Rhineland-Palatinate public utility Pfalzwerke AG.
03 June, 2009
President Obama has pledged over US$467 million from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act to expand and accelerate the development, deployment, and use of geothermal and solar energy throughout the USA.
03 June, 2009
Applied Materials’ 5.7m2 solar photovoltaic (PV) modules produced by its SunFab Thin Film Line™, using both single and more advanced tandem junction technologies, have been awarded International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) certification.
02 June, 2009
SCHOTT Solar has announced a new generation of modules for roof-integrated solar systems at the Intersolar 2009 event in Munich, Germany.
01 June, 2009
Oerlikon Solar reports that it has achieved a new record efficiency level for commercial thin-film silicon PV modules.
01 June, 2009
S.A.G. Solarstrom AG of Freiburg, Germany, is set to construct a 13 MWp photovoltaic (PV) plant at a former military site in Stríbro (district of Plzen), Czech Republic.
01 June, 2009
Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, a vertically integrated photovoltaic (PV) product manufacturer, the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), and Amtech Systems, Inc. a supplier of production and automation systems and related supplies for the manufacture of solar cells, are to jointly develop next generation high efficiency solar cells.
01 June, 2009
Intersolar 2009, the trade show for solar technology, saw visitors numbers swell to around 60,000 representing 150 countries on 26-29 May in Munich, Germany.
01 June, 2009