SolarEdge Technologies and Enolia Solar Systems SA will install 1.5 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) power in Greece under a new partnership.
30 July, 2010
Solar manufacturer Conergy AG has reached an agreement with its financing banks to extend its loans to the end of 2011.
30 July, 2010
Sharp Corporation is doubling its annual production capacity for crystalline solar cell modules to 500 MW at Sharp Manufacturing Company of U.K. (SUKM).
30 July, 2010
SolarWorld AG has reported a 6% increase in profit after tax to €29.6 million for the second quarter (Q2) of 2010.
29 July, 2010
Battery provider Saft and Acciona Energia SA will work together as part of a Eurogia+ labelled project aimed at improving the viability of solar photovoltaic (PV) and other renewable energy power plants.
28 July, 2010
The solar photovoltaic (PV) market grew 17.4% to US$2.8 billion with shipments totalling 8.3 GW, according to IMS Research.
28 July, 2010
The renewable energy industry in the UK is positive overall, to the announcements from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
28 July, 2010
Solar power will generate 126 TWh of renewable power around the world by 2020, more than the 108 TWh to be generated by geothermal facilities, according to the latest International Energy Outlook 2010 from the US Department of Energy.
28 July, 2010
3TIER says its complete suite of solar prospecting and assessment products is now available throughout India.
27 July, 2010
Scatec Solar has signed a € 20 million agreement with the Solar Life Energy investment group to build a total of 7.2 MWp solar photovoltaic (PV) systems on 10 industrial warehouse roofs in the area of Milano, Italy.
27 July, 2010
The solar photovoltaic (PV) module market is set to decline from 2011, according to IMS Research.
26 July, 2010
QinetiQ’s Zephyr solar powered high-altitude long endurance (HALE) unmanned air system (UAS) on Friday 23 July after 14 days and 24 minutes in the air.
26 July, 2010
Oerlikon Solar is to provide further solar thin-film capacity to Boading Tianwei Solar Films Ltd as the thin-film producer seeks to increase production of amorphous thin-film silicon solar modules from 46 MW to 76 MW using Micromorph technology.
23 July, 2010
Conergy Greece has completed 9 solar parks on Crete, Greece, consisting of over 2500 Conergy PowerPlus Modules.
23 July, 2010
SunPower Corp and Solar Ventures S.r.l. will design and build three solar power plants in the Piedmont region of Italy totalling 11.1 MW.
23 July, 2010
Applied Materials is discontinuing sales of its SunFab lines for thin-film solar panel manufacturing to new customers in a restructuring of its Energy and Environmental Solutions segment.
22 July, 2010
Kyocera has supplied its KD210GH-2PU solar photovoltaic (PV) modules in France for a fully integrated 267 MWp solar roofing solution in conjunction with the MV3 integration system developed by Mecosun.
21 July, 2010
The UK has launched a Parliamentary forum for solar photovoltaic (PV) technology.
20 July, 2010
REC Group has reported a net profit of NOK757 million in the second quarter (Q2) of 2010, compared to a loss of NOK684m in the same period in 2009.
20 July, 2010
ENERQOS France SAS is constructing a 290 kWp building integrated photovoltaic system (BIPV) at the logistics hub of the French transport company SAS Satar and MERLE Transport SA, located in the Tarn-et-Garonne region of Southwest France.
20 July, 2010
Phoenix Solar is constructing a 3.5 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in Borgo Piave, Lazio in Italy for Etrion Corporation in a €10 million deal.
19 July, 2010
The European solar photovoltaic (PV) market will be unstable for the next five years, according to Solarbuzz’ latest report ‘Europe PV Markets 2010’.
16 July, 2010
Renewable energy topped fossil fuels and nuclear for the second year in a row in the USA and Europe in 2009, according to the Global Wind Energy Association (GWEC).
16 July, 2010
Kyocera Corporation is supplying solar modules for Toyota Solar Panels, which are to be installed on recreational boats from Toyota Motor Corporation.
16 July, 2010
Semiconductor manufacturer Semikron, PCS Power Converter Solutions and the Technical University of Dresden will investigate how to obtain greater yields from renewable energy sources.
15 July, 2010
SolarWorld has donated solar panels totalling 100 kW to support five health clinics for Partners in Health (PIH) in Haiti.
15 July, 2010
Conergy will build five solar installations with a total power output of 3.6 MW for the Italian hotel group, BluSerena.
15 July, 2010
SunPower Corp and partner MBG have installed a 29.7 kW SunPower solar system on the roof of the Friedrichstadt Palast, Berlin's historic landmark theatre building.
14 July, 2010
Solar photovoltaic (PV) module shipments increased for the fifth consecutive quarter in Q2’10 to 3.7 GW, generating US$7.1 billion in revenues according to IMS Research’s latest quarterly report on the solar cell & module market.
14 July, 2010
Greenlight Planet has won the ‘Solar for All Design Contest', which aims to find the best technical innovations to make solar photovoltaic (PV) technology affordable and accessible for the developing world.
13 July, 2010
The revisions to the Italian feed-in tariff are welcome, according to Italian clean energy products company Acta.
13 July, 2010
ib vogt will undertake the factory design, planning and construction management for an undisclosed Indian multinational company to build its first solar photovoltaic (PV) factory in Southern India.
13 July, 2010
The PlanetSolar composite catamaran will aim to circumnavigate the globe using solar power alone.
12 July, 2010
Sharp Corporation will set up, supply thin-film solar cell modules and surrounding systems for a 73 MW solar power plant in Thailand.
12 July, 2010
The global solar photovoltaic (PV) market is predicted to grow 70% in 2010 in all countries except Benelux, according to IMS Research.
12 July, 2010
The UK Government will help communities become heat and power self-sufficient through the use of renewable microgeneration, amongst other things, says Climate Change Minister Greg Barker.
12 July, 2010
A solar photovoltaic (PV) joint venture (JV), GEM Solar, has been set up in Israel by the Italian turnkey supplier of large-scale solar plants, Enerqos Spa, Ginergia Ltd and Menorah Group
09 July, 2010
The Solar Impulse HB-SIA is the first solar plane to have flown during the night.
09 July, 2010
The global solar photovoltaic (PV) market could reach 14.6 GW in 2010, according to IMS Research.
08 July, 2010
A production line for polymer solar cells is now fully operational at Mekoprint A/S in Denmark.
08 July, 2010
Siemens Energy will construct a 4 MWp solar photovoltaic (PV) plant for Prague construction company D.P.E.S. s.r.o.
08 July, 2010
A ban on councils in the UK selling green electricity into the national grid is to be overturned, UK Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne announces.
08 July, 2010
Many countries are well-suited to solar power, and incentives and low-cost financing mechanisms should be offered to make the energy transition possible, says the head of the region’s largest funding agency.
07 July, 2010
The Federal Network Agency announcement shows a ten-fold increase in comparison to the previous year, reports EuPD Research.
07 July, 2010
The new office will features a solar product training centre for distributors and installers.
07 July, 2010
The "Renewable Energy Snapshots" report, published today by the EU Joint Research Centre's Institute for Energy (IE), shows that renewable energy sources accounted for 62% (17GW) of the new electricity generation capacity installed in the EU27 in 2009.
07 July, 2010
Following weeks of discussion between the German Parliament and the Federal States on the funding of Solar Photovoltaic (PV), the mediation committee seems to be heading towards an agreement.
06 July, 2010
Global photovoltaic demand continues to soar in 2010 and is currently projected to double the rate of installations compared to last year, according to the international solar energy market research and consulting company
06 July, 2010
Korea’s conglomerate said it plans to almost double its annual module and cell production capacity from the current levels of 320MW and 370MW to 600MW, respectively, by early 2011.
06 July, 2010
D Light Design of India was selected as the overall Gold Award winner in the 2010 Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.
05 July, 2010
Renewable energies must generate almost half of the world’s power by 2050, up from the current level of 18%, says the International Energy Agency (IEA).
02 July, 2010