REA disappointed at Government U-turn on biogas Feed-in Tariff review
On-farm projects face cancellation as policy fix delayed to 2015 at the earliest
World's Largest Fuel Cell Park Completed in South Korea
21 fuel cell power plants, rated at 2.8 megawatts each, providing
ultra-clean power to the electric grid and heat to a district heating
system
-- FuelCell Energy sells 3.7 megawatts of fuel cell modules to POSCO
Energy
to meet growing demand
-- 19.6 megawatt fuel cell park announced to support Seoul City
initiative
to reduce reliance on nuclear power
U.S. Battery Donates To Help Bonyo's Kenya Mission
U.S. Battery Donation To Bonyo's Kenya Mission,
Helps Provide Treatment For Villagers In Masara, Kenya
PVinsights : Polysilicon price performed an obvious uptrend this week.
Solar companies are forced to accept the polysilicon price increase. In addition, first tier polysilicon companies have not completely resumed production. Limited polysilicon supply adds to the polysilicon price uptrend this week.
First Solar Recognizes Top Suppliers with 2013 Achievement Awards
SMA Solar Technology AG
---OMCO Solar
---Airgas USA, LLC
---Air Liquide Malaysia
ReneSola Free PV Installer Training Coming to a City Near You
Earn NABCEP CE's and Learn about ReneSola's Virtus II(TM) Modules and Micro Replus(TM) Microinverters
Suntech CTO Receives Engineering Award for New Technique to Reduce Cost of Solar
Discovery of a new technique which can improve the efficiency of lower-grade silicon used in the production of solar panels
SunPower Awards Engineering Curriculum Grants to California Public Schools
Four Districts to Receive $85,000 in Project Lead The Way Funding
UCLA: LA's Ambitious Rooftop Solar Program Delivering Promised Results; Expansion Can Reap Economic and Environmental Benefits in all Parts of the City
Analysis by Researchers at UCLA's Luskin Center Provides Roadmap for Future Solar Expansion
ECOLIBRIUM SOLAR OPENS NEW R&D FACILITY IN BOULDER COLORADO
Facility Powers R&D and Ability to Grow Reliably
Orion Energy Systems Awarded EnergyRight® Solutions Award
"Orion Energy Systems saved customers 12,926,718 kWh in 2013!
BDNT cooperates with ABB to roll out world's largest EV fast charger network in China
Shenzhen BYD Daimler New Technology Co., Ltd. chooses ABB to supply direct current (DC) fast chargers for rapid charging of new DENZA electric vehicle over the next six years
China out-spends the US for first time in $15bn smart grid market
The world's most populous country spent $4.3bn in 2013, part of that going on the installation of 62m smart meters, while US investment declined
Same PV Panel Produces Twice As Much Electricity in Africa Than in Central Europe
The African continent's proximity to the sun shows that solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is at the right place at the right time to meet growing energy demands
--- South Africa's solar target: to produce 8.4 GW of PV capacity by 2030
--- AfricaPVSEC highlights a rapidly growing African PV scientific community and the acceleration of PV electricity generation systems in many African countries.
California's Record-Breaking New Solar Plant Is Already Irrelevant
Last week, dozens of people, including Google energy chief Rick Needham and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, trekked out to the California-Nevada border in the middle of the Death Valley to dedicate what is believed to be the world's largest solar thermal facility in the world.
At 392 megawatts, the Ivanpah solar thermal plant will be able to power 140,000 homes — the equivalent of all of Newark (averaging two people per household).
We covered the project when BrightSource, the main developer behind the project, first put up a stunning 3-D tour of the site.
But for all its scale and beauty, in terms of the future of renewables, Ivanpah is already irrelevant.
Solar thermal creates electricity by using mirrors to direct intense amounts of heat at a centralized collector, which is used to heat a substance like water to create steam power. Solar photovoltaic, meanwhile, directly converts solar energy into electricity through semiconductors.
If solar thermal sounds unnecessarily complicated, you're right. Solar photovoltaic has seen explosive growth in the past few years thanks to plummeting material costs, state incentives, and eco-conscious homebuyers putting up panels on their roofs. But solar thermal growth has stalled, and is expected to continue to do so. Ivanpah cost $2.2 billion. Warren Buffett paid the same amount for the world's largest photovoltaic plant just up the road outside Bakersfield. That plant will generate 1.5-times as much power as Ivanpah.
As the New York Times' Diane Cardwell and Matt Wald wrote Friday, Ivanpah probably represents an end, not a beginning.
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