News of the year 2013
Date: 05.12.2013
Ideal Power raises US$17.25 million from IPO
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 19:43 (PV-Tech)
Renewable power conversion technology manufacturer, Ideal Power, has raised US$17.25 million from its initial public offering (IPO). Read moreReneSola reports record shipments but heavy losses on polysilicon project closure in Q3 2013
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 15:13 (Solarserver)
ReneSola Ltd. (Jiashan, China) has released third quarter 2013 results, reporting record silicon wafer and solar photovoltaic (PV) module shipments of 851 MW and USD 419 million in revenues, including a boom in sales into the United States. However, the company also reported a -43% operating margin and a net loss of USD 200 million. Read moreMalaysia increases renewables surcharge by 60%
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 14:31 (PV-Tech)
The electricity surcharge used to fund Malaysia’s feed-in tariff will be increased from 1.0% to 1.6% from next year, the country’s Sustainable Energy Development Authority (SEDA) has announced. Read moreCalyxo completes new 60MW CdTe production line
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 12:23 (PV-Tech)
Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar module maker Calyxo has commissioned a new 60MW production line at its Bitterfeld-Wolfen plant in Germany. Read moreSolarCity Offers Power Storage to Lower Customers’ Utility Bills
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 16:46 (Renewable Energy World)
SolarCity Corp., the second largest U.S. solar company by market value, is offering power-storage systems to commercial customers that will reduce utility bills and provide electricity during blackouts. Read moreBulgaria approves 20% tax on solar PV, wind output
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 16:08 (Solarserver)
Bulgaria's parliament has approved a 20% tax on solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind production, coupled with a limitation on hours of production, introduced by the nationalist Attack Party. Together, the Bulgarian Photovoltaic Association (BPVA) expects this to result in a 43% reduction in income for PV plant operators. Read moreBecome a Solar “Spartacus”
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 16:04 (Renewable Energy World)
This weekend I ate brunch at a local diner named “Rudy’s.” Clearly, Rudy was the owner, but I had no idea what he looked like. Then I saw that everyone on staff was wearing a T-shirt that said, “I’m Rudy.” Rudy’s T-shirts were of course referencing Spartacus. For those who don’t know that classic Stanley Kubrick movie based on history, it’s about a Read moreYour Solar Panels Aren't Facing the Wrong Way
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 15:54 (Renewable Energy World)
A recent report from the Pecan Street Research Institute started a chain of articles with increasingly inaccurate conclusions. Read moreBulgarian parliament approves ‘crazy’ 20% solar levy
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 13:12 (PV-Tech)
Bulgaria has become the latest European country to impose a charge on revenue from solar and wind energy projects. Read moreSolarCity and Tesla team up on commercial PV energy storage
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 11:45 (PV-Tech)
SolarCity is to offer business customers an energy storage unit option using technology from electric car manufacturer Tesla. Read moreAutumn Statement live blog
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 11:15 (Solarpowerportal)
Solar Power Portal is live blogging the Autumn Statement. Will the ‘greenest government ever’ cut the ‘green crap’? Join us to find out. Read moreOntario to create new bidding process for utility-scale solar PV
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 8:58 (Solarserver)
The government of Ontario has issued a new long-term energy plan, which includes a new competitive solicitation process for solar photovoltaic (PV) projects larger than 500 kW, as part of a commitment to add 340 MW of PV annually. Through the solicitation Ontario will procure 140 MW of PV in both 2014 and 2015, as well as 150 MW of PV projects smaller than 500 kW through the nation's feed-in tariff, and 50 MW of PV smaller than 10 kW through the MicroFIT. The plan has been welcomed by the Canadian Solar Industry Association (CanSIA). Read moreFraunhofer ISE proposes 13x increase in German solar thermal capacity by 2050 to meet climate goals
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 8:50 (Solarserver)
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE (Freiburg, Germany) has issued a report on the German energy system in 2050, which targets meeting 20% of the nation's low-temperature heat demand with solar thermal technology. This would mean a 13x increase in the collector area of solar thermal systems in the nation to 218 million square meters. The increase in solar thermal is part of larger energy system changes that would allow Germany to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80% over 1990 levels by 2050. Read moreChinese government estimates nation will reach 10 GW of solar PV by the end of 2013
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 8:44 (Solarserver)
China's National Energy Administration (NEA) has announced that the nation will reach 10 GW of grid-tied solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity by the end of 2013, a three-fold increase over a year prior. This will mean that PV will represent 0.8% of the nation's electricity generation capacity, up from 0.3% at the end of 2012. The NEA also estimates that the nation has added 3.61 GW of new PV capacity in the first ten months of 2013, or 5.7% of the 62.9 GW of total new generation capacity added. Read moreSpanish court suspends government process to replace solar PV feed-in tariff
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 8:39 (Solarserver)
A Spanish court has suspended a program to require solar photovoltaic (PV) system owners to sell their electricity through a bidding process, which the National Association of Photovoltaic Energy Producers (ANPIER) says endangers the investments of 55,000 Spanish families. The Central Administrative Tribunal of Contractual Remediation has suspended the contract with two companies to run the program, which was announced in July 2013. Few details on the policy are available, and one of the challenges that ANPIER presented to the court dealt with a lack of transparency. Read moreSunEdison distributed solar PV fund doubles to over USD 100 million
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 8:35 (Solarserver)
De Lage Landen Financial Services (DLL, Belmont, California, U.S.) has doubled its investment to over USD 100 million in a fund to finance SunEdison Inc.'s (St. Peters, Missouri, U.S.) distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) generation projects. SunEdison says that the sales-leaseback fund will enable new commercial and municipal customers to realize energy savings through PV generation. This includes projects scheduled for completion by the end of 2013. Read moreUS Renewable Fuels’ Defenders Fight to Persuade EPA to Continue War on Imported Oil
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 19:19 (Renewable Energy World)
Today, the EPA has scheduled a day of testimony on its proposed 2014 Renewable Fuel volume targets — and a proposed 40 percent slash in the advanced biofuels category to 2.2 billion (ethanol equivalent) gallons, from the original Congress-set target of 3.75 billion gallons. Read moreNew Coconut-fired Biomass Plant Set for Thailand
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 17:09 (Renewable Energy World)
A 9.5-MW power station that will be fired using coconut waste is to be developed in Thailand. Under the terms of a deal recently inked between biomass and waste-to-energy provider DP Cleantech and the Mahachai Green Power project, the company will develop a high pressure, high temperature plant on an EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) basis. Read moreThere are no news available
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US Government Recommits to Renewable Energy Ramp-up
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 19:50 (Renewable Energy World)
Today the Obama administration issued an executive order re-establishing one of the proclamations from the climate change plans it issued this summer: significantly boosting the U.S. federal government's support of renewable energy to supply 20 percent of its energy consumption by 2020. Read moreU.S. President Obama calls on federal government to move to 20% renewables by 2020
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 19:26 (Solarserver)
On December 5th, 2013 U.S. President Barack Obama signed a memorandum directing the nation's federal government to meet 20% of its electricity demand with renewable energy sources by 2020, more than double the current level. As a first step, agencies are required to source 10% of their electricity from renewables by 2015. Read moreEnergy Storage Roundup: Ontario and California, Imergy, Stem, Hitachi
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 15:48 (Renewable Energy World)
Many see energy storage as the holy grail for renewable energy integration. We think it's important enough that we recently added a new technology category to our site to track this topic. We see a lot of headlines related to energy storage cross our desks; here's a sampling from the past few days. Read moreAustralia’s rooftop PV installations top 3GW
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 13:44 (PV-Tech)
Over 3GW of PV generation capacity was installed on Australian rooftops, by the end of November, according to figures released by the country’s Clean Energy Regulator. Read moreAutumn Statement: as it happened
Thursday, 12.5.2013 - 11:24 (Solarpowerportal)
George Osborne left green groups with little to cheer in his 2013 Autumn Statement. Find out how it unfolded and the latest industry reaction below Read moreThere are no news available