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
DuPont has expanded its solar photovoltaic (PV) materials portfolio with the acquisition of Innovalight.
27 July, 2011
SunPower’s preliminary second quarter results reflect changing market conditions and policies in Germany and Italy.
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
Developer Q-Cells will sell the park to MCG Management Capital Group, and the turnkey handover will take place imminently.
20 July, 2011
Munich Re and KKR have bought a stake in solar photovolatic (PV) producer Grupo T-Solar.
20 July, 2011
The purchase represents the first renewable energy investment for AXA Private Equity’s latest infrastructure fund.
20 July, 2011
German football club Borussia Dortmund is joining Q-Cells to promote solar energy.
18 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
A solar powered electric vehicle (EV) charging point has been set up at the Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence (CEME) in Essex, UK.
11 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
Vario green energy has commissioned 6 solar photovoltaic (PV) installations on three sites in Slovakia, totalling 6.2 MWp.
08 July, 2011
Lightsource Renewable Energy has installed and commissioned a 1.4 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) farm at Wheal Jane, Cornwall, UK.
08 July, 2011
Following 2010’s massive increase, the global solar photovoltaic (PV) inverter market is predicted to decline below US$6 billion in 2011, a fall of more than 10% according to IMS Research.
07 July, 2011
Ecotricity has completed its 1 MW Sun Park solar photovoltaic (PV) installation at Fen Farm, Lincolnshire, UK.
07 July, 2011
German-based P21 GmbH has secured a €100 000 order for a monitoring and data acquisition system, as part of a scientific PV systems testing platform at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research.
07 July, 2011
A list of the top 10 monocrystalline solar photovoltaic (PV) modules in terms of efficiency has been compiled by SolarPlaza.
06 July, 2011
Changes to the German solar feed-in tariff will go ahead as planned, according to the recent agreement over the German Renewable Energy Law (EEG).
06 July, 2011
Kyocera Corporation has expanded its solar photovoltaic (PV) installation at its Tanaguara manufacturing plant in Fukushima, Japan, to 230 kW.
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
After declining for two consecutive quarters, solar photovoltaic (PV) module shipments are set to recover strongly in the second half of 2011, according to IMS Research.
01 July, 2011