News of the year 2014

Date: 20.05.2014



Photovoltaics

UK research develops low-cost, lead-free perovskite solar cells

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 12:15 (Solarpowerportal)

Lead-free perovskite solar cells could reduce the cost of solar PV sooner than predicted, according to research completed by Oxford PV. Read more

Heraeus starts production of front-side solar cell metalization pastes in China

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 8:45 (Solarserver)

Heraeus (Hanau, Germany) has announced that its Photovoltaics Business Unit will begin manufacturing front-side metalization paste in China. The company plans to provide further details at the SNEC trade show in Shanghai, China on May 20nd, 2014. Heraeus says the move will allow it to reduce delivery times down to two days after receipt of a purchase order, and that it will additionally complement its sales, technical staff and back-side paste production in China. Read more


Thermal Power/Heating

US anti-dumping hearing delayed till late July

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 18:15 (PV-Tech)

The US Department of Commerce has delayed the preliminary solar anti-dumping decision hearing from 11 June to 24 July. Read more

China's New Private Equity Investment Giant Eyes Solar

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 18:10 (Renewable Energy World)

Following reports last month of the imminent formation of a major new private equity investor, media are now saying the company, China Minsheng Investment, has formally registered and is gearing up to make its first investments. The new company certainly has the resources and connections to quickly become a major player on both the domestic and glo Read more

Top module suppliers set for 30% shipment growth in 2014 - Solarbuzz

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 17:05 (PV-Tech)

The world’s top 20 module manufacturers are predicting shipment increases of 30% this year, suggesting global installations could hit 50GW in 2014, according to NPD Solarbuzz. Read more

Planting the “SEEDS” of Solar Technology in the Home

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 16:09 (Renewable Energy World)

In an effort to better understand what persuades people to buy photovoltaic (PV) systems for their homes, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are gathering data on consumer motivations that can feed sophisticated computer models and thus lead to greater use of solar energy. Read more

Enel starts work on 100 MW of solar PV in Chile

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 15:54 (Solarserver)

Enel Green Power (Rome) reports that it has begun construction on two solar photovoltaic (PV) plants 60 MW and 40 MW in capacity in Northern Chile. At 60 MW, the Lalackama PV plant in the Antofagasta Region is the third-largest PV plant to begin construction in Latin America, as well as Enel's largest to date. Read more

A David and Goliath Fight to Tap World Class Solar

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 15:54 (Renewable Energy World)

“It’s the most inspirational work that I’m doing…this is an inspirational and aspirational effort…at the heart of it is love of place and energy democracy.” Mariel Nanasi and the citizens of Santa Fe, NM, are exploring the economic and environmental benefits of more local and locally-controlled energy production.  Is their city ready to take the le Read more

A David and Goliath Fight to Tap World-class Solar

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 15:54 (Renewable Energy World)

“It’s the most inspirational work that I’m doing…this is an inspirational and aspirational effort…at the heart of it is love of place and energy democracy.” Mariel Nanasi and the citizens of Santa Fe, NM, are exploring the economic and environmental benefits of more local and locally-controlled energy production.  Is their city ready to take the le Read more

Arcon Solar to build the world's largest solar heating plant in Denmark

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 15:26 (Solarserver)

Arcon Solar A/S (Skørping, Denmark) has agreed to build a solar thermal system for district heating in the town of Vojens, Denmark with at least 52,500 square meters of collector area. This will be the largest solar heating plant in the world, surpassing the 37,300 square meter solar thermal plant which Arcon built in Dronninglund, Denmark. Read more

Parliament seminar ups solar awareness in Scotland

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 15:15 (Solarpowerportal)

A consortium of solar industry and academic groups held an event at Scottish parliament yesterday to advocate solar energy in Scotland’s renewable energy policy. Read more

Fort Collins, Colorado Utilities Tap Community-owned Solar

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 14:23 (Renewable Energy World)

As the city of Fort Collins grows, the utilities department continues to plan and adapt for the future and announced its commitment to sustainability by partnering with Colorado-based community solar developer Clean Energy Collective (CEC) to launch the city’s first community-owned solar program. CEC will build a 333-kW commercial-grade solar PV ar Read more

How to navigate the CfD schedule

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 13:15 (Solarpowerportal)

Osborne Clarke’s Alan John and Neas Energy’s Lars Weber outline the potential timetable facing solar developers and how it can be successfully navigated. Read more

Intersolar Europe 2014: SolarMax to present self-consumption and storage range

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 12:58 (PV-Tech)

Swiss inverter manufacturer, SolarMax, is to launch a range of PV self-consumption and storage technologies at Intersolar Europe next month. Read more

South Africa connects 100MW of PV under renewables initiative

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 12:27 (PV-Tech)

Emerging markets power developer, Globeleq, has completed two solar power projects in South Africa. Read more

South Africa Is Primed for Major Solar Development

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 12:03 (Renewable Energy World)

South Africa enjoys some of the best sunshine in the world all year round and its electricity is among the most expensive on the planet. The country’s lofty solar ambitions therefore come as little surprise: Forty-two percent of South Africa’s newly-installed energy capacity should be renewable by 2030. Its solar power generation is expected to reach 1,050 MW by 2015 in contrast with just 25 MW in 2012. The country is also expected to have installed over four million solar panels and have the capacity to set up 1.6 million more by the same date. South Africa’s solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity should also reach 8.4 GW by 2030. Read more

SolarWorld reinforces IT security after alleged Chinese hacking

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 12:02 (PV-Tech)

SolarWorld has confirmed it has tightened its IT security after being informed that the Chinese military allegedly stole thousands of documents from its computers in 2012. Read more

Saudi Arabian Oil Company Seeks More Solar Power

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 11:33 (Renewable Energy World)

Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company is planning to add more solar power, a move to limit domestic fossil-fuel consumption in the world’s biggest exporter of crude. Read more

SNEC 2014: Trade war issues dominate APVIA Solar Leaders Dialogue session

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 10:12 (PV-Tech)

A key conference session at SNEC 2014, the APVIA Solar Leaders Dialogue session a day ahead of the start of the main SNEC exhibition was dominated by past, present and possible future trade wars against and within the PV industry. Read more

NPD Solarbuzz: PV trade investigations to have limited impact on solar industry

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 8:49 (Solarserver)

NPD Solarbuzz Inc. (Santa Clara, California, U.S.) says that the impact on the global solar photovoltaic (PV) industry of recent trade policy developments is likely to be limited, given the small scale of the national markets involved. In the last week, the EU has imposed final duties on solar glass from China, India has found evidence of injury to local PV manufacturers due to alleged dumping of PV products from four nations, and Australia has launched an anti-dumping investigation against Chinese PV. Read more

NPD Solarbuzz: Sharp moves to world's largest PV module maker in Q1 2014

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 8:38 (Solarserver)

NPD Solarbuzz reports that Sharp Corp. (Osaka, Japan) shipped the largest volume of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules of any manufacturer during the first quarter of 2014, the result of meeting strong demand in Japan through a flexible shipping strategy. Sharp was the world's largest PV maker from 1963 through 2008, before it was replaced by First Solar, Suntech and then Yingli. During this 45-year period Sharp employed a strategy of vertical integration, manufacturing its own PV cells and modules, but has now shifted to selling PV modules made by outsourced partners, mostly in China and Taiwan. Read more

U.S. government says China hacked SolarWorld's computers

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 8:33 (Solarserver)

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has named SolarWorld Industries Americas (Hillsboro, Oregon, U.S.) as one of six organizations that are victims of alleged cyber-espionage by Chinese military hackers. DOJ reports that a federal grand jury in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania has found that five Chinese military officers hacked into the computers of the organizations, in a case of alleged “economic espionage.” Read more

Solar company Sunrun secures USD 150 million in equity investments

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 8:27 (Solarserver)

Sunrun Inc. (San Francisco, California, U.S.) has closed on USD 150 million in its latest round of equity financing, as the largest private equity raise announced to date for a private residential solar company in the United States. The company identifies the main investor, who provided USD 100 million, as a “leading public institutional investor”, with existing and new investors providing the remaining USD 50 million. The company plans to use the funds to “broaden its reach to consumers and continue developing tools and technologies”. Read more

20MW solar farm to be developed at Alcoa site in Illinois

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 4:15 (PV-Tech)

A 161-hectare site is being cleared in East St. Louis, Illinois, to make way for a planned US$65-million, 20MW solar farm. Read more

Evo Morales signs off on 5MW solar project in Bolivia

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 4:15 (PV-Tech)

The government of Bolivia has appointed Spanish PV developer Isotron SAU, a subsidiary of energy company Isastur, to develop the first PV plant in the Bolivian region of Pando. Read more


Biomass/Pellets

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Wind Energy

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Hydropower

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Hydrogen/Fuel Cell

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Geo Thermal/Heat Pump

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Energy Policy/Climate/CO2

Over 22,000 Green Deal assessments carried out in April

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 19:06 (Solarpowerportal)

Green Deal assessments continue to gather pace across the UK, according to figures published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Read more

Fossil fuels needed until 2050 says Shell: GENR 20 May

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 15:53 (PV-Tech)

In today’s Green Energy News Review we discuss the news that Shell have responded to the ‘Carbon Bubble’ theory by sending letters to their shareholders denouncing green energy, and declaring that it might take the rest of the century to resolve climate change issues. Read more

Fossil fuels needed until 2050 says Shell: GENR 20 May

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 15:53 (Solarpowerportal)

In Tuesday’s Green Energy News Review we discuss news that Shell has responded to the ‘Carbon Bubble’ theory by sending letters to their shareholders denouncing green energy, and declaring that it might take the rest of the century to resolve climate change issues. Read more

Post-FiT era is pressing concern for Japan’s PV industry

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 13:15 (PV-Tech)

Preparing to do business after the FiT scheme ends in 2020, whether or not the government maintain the country’s “no nuclear” energy policy, will be crucial to survival for solar in Japan, according to one expert. Read more

Reform of the Electricity Paradigm in Mexico: The Importance of Perspective

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 13:08 (Renewable Energy World)

Politics, as with almost everything else, is all about perspective. Perspective is often used as a verb to describe spatial relationships in a photograph or by an astronomer to define the size of objects in space. The word is designed to remind us that we need to be aware of the relative nature of things. Without perspective, we wouldn’t know what is large or small, heavy or light, fast or slow, expensive or cheap, or even up or down. Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States and Nobel Prize winner, used to have an image of the Earth in his office with the South Hemisphere on top of the map — making the point that even one’s perspective of our planet in the Read more

GE Said to Seek Partners on Alstom Assets to Appease France

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 11:02 (Renewable Energy World)

General Electric Co., seeking approval from France’s government for its $17 billion Alstom SA energy bid, is in early-stage talks with nuclear-plant maker Areva SA and other French companies about asset sales or partnerships, people familiar with the matter said. Read more

Philippines Department of Energy plans to increase FiT cap by factor of ten

Tuesday, 5.20.2014 - 4:15 (PV-Tech)

Facing pressure due in large part to a pipeline of proposed PV installations and increasing electricity demand, the Philippine Department of Energy (DOE) is organising plans to raise its feed-in tariff (FiT) cap to 10 times more than the current rate. Read more


Solar-/Electromobil

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