News of the year 2013
Date: 07.03.2013
Japanese domestic solar cell sales in Q4 2012 surged by 147%
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 11:40 (PV-Tech)
Sales of solar cells in Japan in the fourth quarter of 2012 soared by 146.9% compared with the corresponding period one year earlier, statistics by the Japan Photovoltaic Energy Association reveal. Read moreIHS: Growing demand for energy storage revealed in global inverter survey
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 9:53 (Solarserver)
IHS Inc. (Englewood, Colorado, US) has found a rapidly growing need for energy storage in solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, in a global survey of more than 400 PV inverter customers. The company states that nearly one-third of respondents indicated that they expect to be using energy storage in over 40% of the PV systems they install by 2015. The survey also found that Chinese inverters are gaining acceptance in the global PV market, and that the high price of microinverters is a barrier to increasing market share. Read moreLatin America Report: Uruguay, Future Home of the World's Cheapest Solar Energy
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 17:24 (Renewable Energy World)
Uruguay is about to offer contracts to buy power from 200 megawatts of solar farms at $90/MWh, which is barely half the cost of power in China and Germany. Read moreExclusive: STA opposes EU solar duties
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 17:10 (Solarpowerportal)
The Solar Trade Association is to oppose the implementation of any European trade duties on Chinese solar products. Read moreJapan's Wind Industry Headed for Boom Akin to Solar, Lawyer Says
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 16:24 (Renewable Energy World)
Japan's wind power industry will see a boom in installations similar to an increase in solar capacity in the nation since last year, a lawyer advising domestic and foreign investors said. Read moreSolarCity reports growth, continued losses in 4Q 2012
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 15:57 (Solarserver)
SolarCity Corporation (San Mateo, California, US) has released results for the fourth quarter of 2012, reporting a 129% year-over-year increase in solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity deployed to 48 MW, as well as a 192% increase in customers to 8,557 customers. Over the full year, SolarCity deployed 157 MW of PV, and has also begun offering energy efficiency services. However, despite a 22% year-over-year increase in revenues to USD 25.3 million during the quarter, the company reported a -94% operating margin and a net loss of USD 13.7 million. Read moreNRG Solar commissions Borrego 1 solar PV plant
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 15:48 (Solarserver)
NRG Solar (Princeton, New Jersey, US) has commissioned its Borrego 1 Solar Generating Station in San Diego County, California. The 26 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant uses SunPower PV modules, and electricity from the plant will be sold to San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E, San Diego, California, US) under a 25-year power purchase agreement. Read moreSuntech resolves dispute over solar investment fund
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 14:29 (PV-Tech)
Chinese manufacturer Suntech has announced the resolution of its ongoing dispute with its partner GSF Capital. Read moreGo ahead for 27MW plant in Baja California
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 13:06 (PV-Tech)
The Mexican subsidiary of Spanish conglomerate Grupotec has been given the go-ahead to develop a 27.6MW solar power plant at La Paz, in the north Mexican state of Baja California. Read moreIndian government to implement gap funding model for phase two of JNNSM
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 12:48 (PV-Tech)
The government of India has announced plans to adopt a ?viability gap? funding model for the second phase of its Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM). Read moreBosch completes 1.9MW Hawaii project
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 12:26 (PV-Tech)
Bosch Solar Energy has completed a multi-site solar project on the Islands of Maui and Lanai, in Hawaii. Read morePanasonic and Pristine Sun join forces on 50MW of Californian solar farms
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 12:11 (PV-Tech)
Panasonic Eco Solutions Energy Management North America and Pristine Sun have teamed up to develop a planned 50MW of solar parks in the US state of California. Read moreSilicon Energy solar PV modules excel in NREL durability test
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 11:44 (Solarserver)
Silicon Energy LLC's (Marysville, Washington, U.S.) double-glass Cascade Series solar photovoltaic (PV) modules have out-performed other crystalline silicon (c-Si) PV modules in an experimental test of durability under extreme environmental conditions. In the test by National Renewable Energy Laboratories' (NREL) National Center for Photovoltaics, the Cascade Series modules ranked higher than five other c-Si PV module designs for degradation mechanisms including potentially-induced degradation, de-lamination and corrosion. Read moreNew JV to build large solar PV plants in Kenya, Uganda
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 9:49 (Solarserver)
Solarpraxis (Berlin, Germany) and Planet Investment Banking have joined Egyptian and Arab investors to form a new joint venture that will invest USD 200 million in solar photovoltaic (PV) projects in Africa. Planet Investment Banking holds a controlling equity stake in Emerging Power NV, which is currently developing a 100 MW PV plant in Uganda and an 80 MW PV plant in Kenya. Read moreLowest bid in Andhra Pradesh solar auction comes in at USD 0.118/kWh
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 9:44 (Solarserver)
Sunborne Energy (Gurgaon, India) has placed the lowest bid in Andhra Pradesh's recent solar solicitation at INR 6.49 (USD 0.118) per kWh for a 5 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant, according to Efficient Carbon Management Solutions LLP (Hyderabad, India). The 330 bids placed in the solicitation well exceeded available capacity of 1.16 GW, but as developers placed separate bids on 161 sites, many locations did not receive any bids. Winning bids came in as high as INR 11.0 (USD 0.20) per kWh. Read moreSolar lease companies face criticism over calcluating energy savings
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 6:16 (PV-Tech)
Solar companies marketing third party lease agreements have started to face increasing criticism over the way they calculate energy savings to customers in California. Read moreUK Minister Attacks 'Bourgeois' Biofuel Stance
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 14:00 (Renewable Energy World)
UK energy minister John Hayes today said it was "detached and bourgeois" to suggest that cutting down trees to use as biofuel was counter-productive to following a green agenda. Read moreThere are no news available
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U.S. Geothermal Receives Balance of $11.8 Million Treasury Grant
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 13:00 (Renewable Energy World)
U.S. Geothermal Inc., a renewable- energy developer with projects in three Western states and Guatemala, received the balance of a Treasury Department grant of $11.8 million for a project in Nevada. Read moreObama: Good Instincts, Solid Achievements, Weak Surrogates
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 17:18 (Renewable Energy World)
Here we have a President who has been emphatic on green energy and has put money where his mouth is: $90 billion in the Stimulus Bill (ARRA), highest car mileage standards ever (CAFÉ, 50+ mpg), and the first Clean Air Act regulations for mercury from coal electric power generation plants. Read moreClean Break Inspires Americans to Pursue "Energy Change"
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 14:00 (Renewable Energy World)
Renewable energy journalist Osha Gray Davidson recently released a book called Clean Break, detailing the German Energiewende (translation: energy change). It?s a story of how the Germans systematically shifted to clean energy, finding as they proceeded that the possibilities were greater, the costs lower, and the benefits for ordinary citizens mo Read morePV meets 4.3% of Italian electricity demand in February 2013
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 11:49 (Solarserver)
Italian grid operator Terna SpA has reported that electricity generation from solar photovoltaics (PV) increased 11% year-over-year in February 2013 to 1.11 TWh, enough to meet 4.3% of demand. In the first two months of 2013 PV produced 1.87 TWh, a 3.2% increase over 2012 and enough to meet 3.5% of demand. In 2012 PV met 5.6% of electricity demand in the nation, the highest percentage in any large nation to date. Read moreDECC publishes FiT factsheet to address industry confusion
Thursday, 3.7.2013 - 11:10 (Solarpowerportal)
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has moved to allay industry confusion over its decision to shorten the summer feed-in tariff (FiT) rate for solar PV. Read moreThere are no news available