UK - It could be lights out for solar power under this government
Terry Macalister for The Guardian: Ministers rightly wring their hands over the 2,200 jobs being lost at the 98-year-old Redcar steelworks hit by low-cost Chinese competition. But they seem deaf to warnings of 27,000 jobs being potentially lost in a brand-new industry now facing crisis due to their own clumsy cuts.
Almost 1,000 redundancies have already been made by the solar panel installersMark Group and Climate Energy. No one in the industry believes this will be the end of the sad story.
The latest flashpoint for “green” developers is the government plan to slash the feed-in tariff – which subsidises people installing solar panels on their home – by almost 90%. Meanwhile, an energy-efficiency regime has been scrapped with only a vague promise of a future replacement.
If these were isolated examples, then companies might be willing to hang on in the hope of better things to come. But they are the latest in a series of cuts not just to solar but also to onshore wind, and come at a time when it seems maximum effort is being expended on removing roadblocks to shale-gas frackingand nuclear power. Cont'd...
WINAICO's 300 W PERC module wins Taiwan Excellent PV Award for best PV module in safety, reliability and efficiency
WINAICO's 300 W PERC 60-cell module passes the advanced liability tests conducted by ITRI to win Taiwan Excellent PV Award, presented by Bureau of Energy, of Ministry of Economic Affairs
The Americas stand out in solid Q3 for clean energy investment
A 25% rise in investment in the US, and much larger jumps for Brazil and Chile, were among the highlights as global investment reached $70bn in the third quarter
Hannah Solar Launches Hannah Home Energy in Partnership with Sonnenbatterie Inc.
Creating the First Exclusive Sonnenbatterie Center Partnership in the Southeast
Total Corporate Funding in Solar Sector Up Slightly with $6.2 Billion in Q3 2015, Reports Mercom Capital Group
VC funding up, debt financing up, public market financing down
Solar Frontier's CIS Modules Selected For 14 Megawatt Module Supply Agreement In The Midwestern US
Solar Frontier Continues To Expand US Footprint
GE Supports Growing Japanese Solar Market with Advanced Technology and Long Term Service
Following the Hosoe project, GE has once again been chosen to support another mega-solar project in Furukawa, Japan with its Brilliance skid inverter solutions
---A 20-year long term service contract to secure availability and energy yield over project lifetime
---GEs expertise and high quality & cost effective solutions will ensure positive returns on investment
NRG EVgo and Princeton Power Systems showcase ground-breaking electric car charging at Team OC's Solar Decathlon Home
NRG EVgo and Princeton Power Systems provide DC to DC technology for the University of California, Irvines Solar Decathlon Entry
A Flexible Dual-axis Solar Tracking System is able to Survive in Extreme Conditions
BIG SUN iPV Solar Tracker provides high reliability and high profit
Kina'ole Capital Partners Endorses the Energy Toolbase Software Platform to Installer Partner Network
Solar Finance Provider Kina'ole Capital Partners Endorses Solar Software Group Energy Toolbase as the Platform of Choice
Yaskawa - Solectria Solar Provides Inverters for One of the Largest Professional Sport Stadium PV Systems in North America
Yaskawa - Solectria Solar, a leading U.S. PV inverter manufacturer, announced today that it has provided its PVI 28TL inverters to Russell Pacific and Auric Solar for Rio Tinto Stadium. This 2MW system will offset 73 percent of the stadium's total annual power needs - the largest offset for any professional stadium in North America.
Energy Production in Motion: The Advantages of Single-Axis Solar Tracking Systems
Despite the fact that tracking systems are more complex than fixed-tilt systems, they represent the future of the industry and a glimpse of all that is possible in terms of solar energy capacity.
Renewable Energy Starts to Makes Fossil Fuel More Expensive
A new report out from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) found an interesting side effect of increased wind and solar power use-fossil fuel prices are rising.
Circular Energy Launches Solar Power Buyback Program
Circular Energy launched their innovative solar power buyback program today which helps customers maximize their overall return on their investment in their distributed solar energy system.
Cloaking Principle Could Boost Solar Cell Performance
Invisibility cloaking may be a long way from reality, but the principle could help improve the performance of solar cells in the near term.
In a series of simulations, researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have demonstrated how cloaks made of metamaterials or freeform surfaces could eliminate shadows cast by energy-harvesting components onto the active surfaces of solar cells.
Contact fingers, which extract electric current, cover up to one-tenth of the surface area of a solar cell. By guiding light around these features, more of the sun's energy could be captured by the solar cell.
"Our model experiments have shown that the cloak layer makes the contact fingers nearly completely invisible," said doctoral student Martin Schumann. Cont'd...
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