German Solar Power Capacity Hits All-Time High… Again (More Solar than Rest...
Germany has become the first country in the world to have 30-gigawatts-peak of installed solar power capacity, according to initial reports. Solar PV installations continue to increase in the face of...
View ArticleNew Efficiency Record for Photovoltaic Cells Set, Jump in Efficiency Thanks...
A new solar photovoltaic conversion efficiency record for solar cells made of amorphous and monocrystalline silicon of 21.4% was recently set, thanks to the innovations of researchers at EPFL’s...
View ArticleGerman Baseload Power Cheaper than French 12 Months Running
The EEX (European Energy Exchange) recent report on September’s trading results showed that both peak-load and baseload day-ahead electricity prices in Germany and Austria are lower than that of...
View Article1,000 MW Of New Solar Power Installed In Germany In September, 6,000 MW...
Germany installed nearly 1,000 MW (1 GW) of new solar power in September, bringing its total for the year up to 6,200 MW (6.22 GW). These statistics were provided by the German Federal Network...
View ArticleNews Bonanza: Clean Energy News, Climate Change News, and Clean Energy &...
Here’s some more clean energy, climate change, and policy news from the past couple weeks: Clean Energy (In General) & Climate Change Policy Iowa Scientists Warn of Need for Climate Change...
View ArticleSunny Crowd Claims To Be 1st Crowdfunding Platform For Renewable Energy
I know there are a number of folks working to create cleantech-focused crowdfunding sites, but I’m not sure if any are actually up yet. Sunny Crowd may be the first. Here’s more from Solar Love: The...
View ArticleSolar Graph Porn
Someone recently passed along these great graphs from a German website (you can see an English translation of the webpage they came from here). The overall message: solar PV prices in Germany have...
View Article82 MW Of Solar At 17 Japanese Sites (Including Former Airport); Solar Tree...
Solar Power 1st EVSI Solar Tree Installations Will Be At California GM Dealership: GM hasn’t been hiding it — it has taken a liking to solar power. As yet another indication of that, it’s been...
View ArticleOver 600 MW Of New Solar Installed In Germany In October (YTD = Almost 7,000 MW)
611.856 MW of new solar power modules were installed in Germany in October. The official numbers were just released by The German Federal Network Agency. Around 19,000 new solar plants were...
View ArticleRenewable Energy Big Pic: Part 1 (Including 34 Charts & Graphs)
As I mentioned in my article covering the latest US Solar Market Insight report (which I just published a few hours ago), I was “out of the office” today giving a presentation on solar power growth....
View ArticleRenewable Energy Big Pic: Part 2 (Including 19 Charts & Graphs)
Continuing on from yesterday’s “Renewable Energy Big Pic” post, here’s Renewable Energy Big Pic: Part 2. As noted yesterday, this two-post series is basically a presentation I gave to a class of...
View ArticleChina Atop Renewable Energy Ranks As Shale Gas Changes The Game
Stop me if you’ve heard this before – renewable energy technologies face global challenges from fossil fuels and a lack of public subsidies, but new financing mechanisms and government mandates may be...
View ArticleGlobal Solar PV Demand To Hit 31 GW In 2013, Report Forecasts
Global solar photovoltaic (PV) demand is set to advance by two gigawatts (GW) to 31GW in 2013 compared to the previous year, thanks in part to firm Chinese demand, a new report suggests. NPD Solarbuzz...
View Article211 MW Of New Solar Photovoltaic Capacity Added In Germany In February
Reposted from Solar Love with permission: 211 MW of new solar photovoltaic capacity were installed in Germany in February. The new capacity was spread out amongst more than 8,300 different systems, the...
View Article4 More Germany Solar Power & Wind Power Charts
Greentech Media recently piggy-backed on our article regarding Germany’s new monthly solar generation record (5.1 GWh in the month of July). In that article, Herman K. Trabish pulled up some great...
View ArticleRenewable Solar & Wind Energy Produced As Much As 60% Of Germany’s...
Solar and wind energy production accounted for as much as 60% of Germany’s electricity use on October 3rd, according to a new study from energy consultant Bernard Chabot. At peak production — right...
View ArticleWelcome To The Energiewende — The Movie
The accelerated phase-out of nuclear power following the nuclear disaster in Japan has put German energy policy on the map for many people. Since then, the word “Energiewende” has even become a new...
View ArticleUS Solar Energy Industry Shines In Record-Setting 3Q 2013
The US solar energy industry installed a record-setting 930MW of photovoltaic panels in 3Q 2013, passing 10GW total installed capacity - enough to power 1.7 million homes. US Solar Energy Industry...
View ArticleGermany’s Solar Development Continues
Originally published in the ECOreport (with edits). Critics have been pecking away at Germany’s solar program for years. George Monbiot, a columists for the Guardian, wrote, “The real net cost of the...
View ArticleGermany’s Energiewende Is Very Much Alive & On Track
Originally published in the ECOreport. Renewable sources contributed 27% of Germany’s domestic electricity in the first quarter of 2014. In windy Schleswig-Holstein, which obtained 90% of its energy...
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