News of the year 2013

Date: 21.06.2013



Photovoltaics

PvXchange: Chinese PV products becoming harder to come by in Europe

Friday, 6.21.2013 - 13:50 (Solarserver)

PvXchange GmbH (Cologne, Germany) has announced that Chinese solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturers are delaying shipments to Europe, and that all free inventory of Chinese PV products has been sold off. Read more


Thermal Power/Heating

New York passes solar bill that could add 2.2GW by 2023

Friday, 6.21.2013 - 20:36 (PV-Tech)

New York state legislators yesterday gave their resounding approval to a solar bill that could see 2,200 MW of new installations by 2023. Read more

Student Teams Rev Up for Solar Grand Prix

Friday, 6.21.2013 - 16:26 (Renewable Energy World)

Thirteen student teams are preparing to race their solar cars, powered only by the Texas sun, in this year’s Formula Sun Grand Prix. The annual track race will be held over three days—June 27 to 29—where teams will be judged on the total number of laps they complete on the closed course. Held this year in Austin, Tex., the endurance race challenges Read more

Fraunhofer ISE, CSE issue first report through solar PV module durability initiative

Friday, 6.21.2013 - 14:02 (Solarserver)

The Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems CSE (Boston, Massachusetts, US) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE (Freiburg, Germany) have released a joint report on the results of performance tests for solar photovoltaic (PV) modules. Read more

NPD Solarbuzz: Market conditions delay solar PV technology implementation

Friday, 6.21.2013 - 13:55 (Solarserver)

NPD Solarbuzz has published an analysis which states that market difficulties are slowing the adoption of new solar photovoltaic (PV) equipment technologies, leading to uncertainty over technology progress. Read more

ET Solar builds 28 MW of new solar PV plants in Romania

Friday, 6.21.2013 - 13:33 (Solarserver)

ET Solar Group Corp. (Nanjing, China) has announced the completion of three new solar photovoltaic (PV) plants totaling 28 MW in Romania for Tinmar-Ind SA (Bucharest, Romania). Read more

Sunrun launches third party leasing in Connecticut

Friday, 6.21.2013 - 11:00 (PV-Tech)

Sunrun, a California-based solar company, today announced that it would be able to offer third party lease agreements to 90% of utility customers in Connecticut. Read more


Biomass/Pellets

Sugar High: Total, Amyris, Airbus Complete Sugar-based Biofuel Flight at Paris Air Show

Friday, 6.21.2013 - 16:33 (Renewable Energy World)

In France, Amyris and Total announced a successful demonstration flight at the Paris Air Show its renewable jet fuel made from Amyris Biofene and, ultimately, from plant sugars. Read more


Wind Energy

A Window on the Future of Offshore Wind Turbines

Friday, 6.21.2013 - 15:47 (Renewable Energy World)

With over 5 GW of global installed capacity, representing about 2 percent of total installed wind power capacity according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC)'s latest market report, and with a whopping 80 GW projected to be installed by 2020, the offshore wind market is picking up speed. Read more


Hydropower

There are no news available

 



Hydrogen/Fuel Cell

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Geo Thermal/Heat Pump

Geothermal Power Tanzania Plans First Steam Generation Next Year

Friday, 6.21.2013 - 16:14 (Renewable Energy World)

Geothermal Power Tanzania Ltd. plans to invest as much as $350 million to drill steam fields in the country’s south and build its first geothermal plants with the capacity to generate up to 140 megawatts by 2018. Read more


Energy Policy/Climate/CO2

Mapping the Renewable Energy Revolution

Friday, 6.21.2013 - 18:07 (Renewable Energy World)

Pakistan encapsulates the renewable energy challenge faced by many developing and emerging countries. Despite abundant renewable resources – including solar, wind, hydropower and biomass – very little of this potential has been utilized. At the same time, about a third of the country’s people do not have access to electricity. Read more

Amid Fossil Fuel Troubles, Ukraine Gets Lift from Renewables

Friday, 6.21.2013 - 15:39 (Renewable Energy World)

Ukraine’s traditional energy sector has been facing a major crisis due to a shortage of current assets. This is the result of the state’s socially oriented tariff policy as cash-strapped utilities are unable to settle mounting bills with Russian gas supplier Gazprom. Read more

Ofgem publishes energy market reforms

Friday, 6.21.2013 - 13:56 (Solarpowerportal)

Ofgem has today published in detail the reform changes that it trailed last October in an attempt to deliver a “simpler, clearer and fairer energy market.” Read more

Clean Energy Stocks Rise as Gas and Crude Rally

Friday, 6.21.2013 - 13:45 (Renewable Energy World)

Alternative energy stocks climbed higher on Monday as strong moves in both crude oil and natural gas drove prices for energy stocks higher. With natural gas prices climbing, investors will be looking for alternatives during the height of the summer cooling season. The Nation Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported above normal temperatures throughout the U.S., which caused natural gas prices to rally 3 percent on Monday. Read more

Energy Costs: How Come Granny Is Still in Her Chair?

Friday, 6.21.2013 - 13:11 (Renewable Energy World)

Granny was thrown out of her wheelchair and off a cliff in one of the most controversial ads of the 2012 U.S. presidential election. Whether you love or hate the clip, which went after Republicans on Medicare, it shows the emotional tenor we bring to the debate over health care costs. Energy costs affect Granny at least as much — and everyone else, Read more

US in line for new clean energy test centre

Friday, 6.21.2013 - 10:39 (PV-Tech)

The US Energy Department and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are to develop a US$135 million test centre in Colorado for new utility-scale clean energy grid integration technologies. Read more


Solar-/Electromobil

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