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US Solar Shatters Records with Brightest Quarter Yet
The US has enjoyed a record-breaking quarter for solar power, installing 4.1GW of new capacity over a three month period and setting the country on track to add an impressive 14.1GW during...
Check Out the World’s First Lights Powered by Micro-Sphere Solar Cells
Sphelar Power, makers of the world’s first “micro-sphere” solar cell, have declared “flatness is over” when it comes to solar power generation. The Japan-based company is in the midst of a crowdfunding...
SunPower Shuts Plant, Cuts Jobs 25 Percent to Survive Solar Slump
SunPower Corp. is following through with a planned restructuring effort that will reduce its workforce by 25 percent to cut costs after solar prices plunged in an oversupplied market.
The second-biggest U.S. panel-maker...
Wind Industry Salutes Fresh Output Record
The UK's onshore and offshore wind farms set a new output record yesterday, passing the 10,000MW mark for the first time, according to new figures from National Grid.
The record of 10,104MW was...
Big Business Calls on Government to Halt Solar Tax Hike
A group of major businesses, including retail giants Sainsbury's, IKEA and Kingfisher, have called on Chancellor Philip Hammond to stop a planned rise in business rates for firms with solar installations.
The businesses...
Solar Is Booming… Costs Keep Falling
Today, solar power is everywhere. It's on your neighbor's roof and in tiny portable cellphone chargers. There are even solar powered roads. And as solar power heats up, prices are going down....
Off-grid Solar to Help Myanmar Bring Electricity to All by 2030
Four feet in length, of aggressive disposition, and deadly poisonous: you don’t want to stand on a Russell’s viper in the dark. Especially if there’s no antivenom for miles around. Yet that’s...
Indonesia, Vietnam look to blaze trail for solar in Southeast Asia
Indonesia and Vietnam are looking to join Thailand in blazing a trail for solar power in Southeast Asia, introducing targets to fire up green energy generation as a landmark global agreement to...
Solar Energy Powers Ahead in Ouarzazate
The Noor Ouarzazate solar power complex harnesses the potential of the most abundant source of energy in North Africa – the sun. Thanks to the support of the EU and the EIB,...
Energy Department Invests $21 Million in 17 Projects to Speed Solar Adoption
The US Energy Department announced last week that $21.4 million in funding for 17 new projects to help reduce the "soft costs" commonly found with solar energy, such as installation, permitting, and...
U.S. Energy Shakeup Continues as Solar Capacity Triples
Solar power capacity in the U.S. will have nearly tripled in size in less than three years by 2017 amid an energy shakeup that has seen natural gas solidify its position as...
Another Strong Year for China’s Wind Industry
The proposal for new feed-in tariffs for onshore wind in the draft NEA decree:
The Chinese wind market continued to power ahead during the first half of 2016. According to the Chinese Wind...
Calls to Integrate more Solar Power into System
The UK could treble the amount of solar power on the system without pushing up costs, a study suggests.
Concerns have been raised about the costs of integrating intermittent renewables, such as solar...
Pacific Ethanol to Install 5 Megawatt Solar Energy System at Madera Plant
Pacific Ethanol, Inc., a leading producer and marketer of low-carbon renewable fuels in the United States, announced it is installing a 5 megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) power system designed and built...
Enel starts construction of Latin America’s largest solar power plant in Brazil.
Enel through its subsidiary Enel Green Power Brasil Participaes Ltda. (“EGPB”), has started construction of the 292 MW Nova Olinda solar power plant in Brazil which, once completed, will be the largest...
Asian Firms Offer Record Low Bid for UAE Solar Plant
An Asian consortium, comprising JinkoSolar Holding of China and Marubeni Corporation of Japan, made the lowest bid for a 350 megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) independent power project in Abu Dhabi, UAE, said...
