The UK is missing out on a unique opportunity to become the market of choice for investment in renewables in Europe as political infighting delays the Energy Bill becoming a reality, according to the tenth anniversary edition of the Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Indices (RECAI), released by Ernst & Young this week.
30 May, 2013
ABB plans to start production of central inverters in South Africa to support the rapidly growing local photovoltaic market and local content requirements. The company said it plans to open the new inverter production line at its existing facilities in Johannesburg in 2014.
30 May, 2013
The Group used its own funds for the extensive investments into further automatisation of its photovoltaic (PV) module production environment.
30 May, 2013
Number 1: End-of-life PV: then what? - Recycling solar PV panels
29 May, 2013
The Aura Solar I project will quadruple the total PV capacity installed in Mexico.
29 May, 2013
Segen said it has launched a new partnership with Renusol, a manufacturer of solar mounting systems for domestic and commercial arrays.
29 May, 2013
In an ambitious industry project with the French company Soitec, Fraunhofer ISE is currently developing a new generation of multi-junction solar cells it says have a efficiency potential as high as 50% under concentrated sunlight.
29 May, 2013
Joint venture juwi Shizen Energy has connected its first rooftop PV-system to the grid in Japan.
23 May, 2013
The provider of testing services for the solar industry, TÜV Rheinland, will be at Intersolar 2013 presenting new, practical testing services for investors, project developers, and installers of photovoltaic (PV) systems.
16 May, 2013
Hager has launched type 1 + 2 surge protection devices (SPDs) that are designed to optimise arc extinction for both direct lightning strikes and for type 2 8/20 waveforms.
16 May, 2013
According to an analysis by environment & engineering consultancy WSP, London has ranked lowest in the UK for uptake of solar panels.
16 May, 2013
JCM Capital (JCM) has set up a company in Japan to invest in utility-scale ground based solar photovoltaic (PV) projects.
16 May, 2013
Trina Solar is providing solar panels to support a joint aid project in Liberia carried out by the charities Project for Liberia and Engineers Without Borders.
16 May, 2013
Upsolar has announced the completion of a 1.5MW solar electric system in Kozani, capital of the West Macedonia region in Greece. It marks the first installation in the region completed by Upsolar’s Project Development Department.
15 May, 2013
Solar power company Canadian Solar has announced that its subsidiary Canadian Solar Solutions has donated solar modules to help power the off-grid, world-renowned OrcaLab Whale Research Centre (OrcaLab) on a remote island off the British Columbia coast.
15 May, 2013
New Energy Technologies has developed a range of see-through solar cells for generating electricity on glass windows that have faster fabrication time, improved transparency, and increased power conversion efficiency.
15 May, 2013
SwissINSO Holding Inc has developed Kromatix, coloured glass designed to improve the aesthetics and overall effectiveness of integrated solar energy panels.
15 May, 2013
PV solar materials supplier Proinso has supplied 5MW to the first PV solar farm on the grid on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a Union Territory off the coast of Southern India.
14 May, 2013
PV specialist ReneSola Ltd has provided solar modules to be used in three community-scale solar power projects in Vermont.
14 May, 2013
Researchers have demonstrated high-performance polymer solar cells (PSCs) with a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 8.92% - the highest values reported to date for plasmonic PSCs using metal nanoparticles (NPs).
14 May, 2013
Spanish energy company Iberdrola has completed a geotechnical feasibility study for its Wikinger offshore wind project in German – a key milestone in the ongoing certification and planning process.
14 May, 2013