CleanTechnica » germany solar energy http://cleantechnica.com Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:48:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 Germany’s Energiewende Is Very Much Alive & On Track http://cleantechnica.com/2014/05/29/germanys-energiewende-much-alive-track/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/05/29/germanys-energiewende-much-alive-track/#comments Thu, 29 May 2014 04:50:33 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=67513 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 from renewable sources in 2013, residents hope to reach 100% this year. The role played by fossil fuels and the nuclear sectors is shrinking. Contrary to what naysayers have

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/05/19/germanys-solar-development-continues/feed/ 8 US Solar Energy Industry Shines In Record-Setting 3Q 2013 http://cleantechnica.com/2013/12/10/us-solar-energy-industry-shines-in-record-setting-3rd-quarter-2013/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/12/10/us-solar-energy-industry-shines-in-record-setting-3rd-quarter-2013/#comments Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:26:22 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=60003 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.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/12/10/us-solar-energy-industry-shines-in-record-setting-3rd-quarter-2013/feed/ 5 Welcome To The Energiewende — The Movie http://cleantechnica.com/2013/11/22/welcome-energiewende-movie/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/11/22/welcome-energiewende-movie/#comments Fri, 22 Nov 2013 14:30:22 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=59065 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 loanword in the English language. Despite the increase in international attention, many reports about the Energiewende miss the mark by not knowing

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/11/22/welcome-energiewende-movie/feed/ 4 Renewable Solar & Wind Energy Produced As Much As 60% Of Germany’s Electricity October 3rd http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/15/renewable-solar-wind-energy-produced-much-60-germanys-electricity-october-3rd/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/15/renewable-solar-wind-energy-produced-much-60-germanys-electricity-october-3rd/#comments Tue, 15 Oct 2013 05:30:16 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=57703 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 around 12pm that day — wind energy and solar energy were producing about 59.1% of the northern country’s power. Part of the

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/15/renewable-solar-wind-energy-produced-much-60-germanys-electricity-october-3rd/feed/ 33 4 More Germany Solar Power & Wind Power Charts http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/04/4-more-germany-solar-power-wind-power-charts/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/04/4-more-germany-solar-power-wind-power-charts/#comments Wed, 04 Sep 2013 05:30:22 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=56016 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 charts from the Fraunhofer Institute’s Bruno Burger. I think I always find Dr. Burger’s charts interesting and useful. I’ve shared many of them here on CleanTechnica in the

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/04/4-more-germany-solar-power-wind-power-charts/feed/ 33 211 MW Of New Solar Photovoltaic Capacity Added In Germany In February http://cleantechnica.com/2013/04/03/211-mw-of-new-solar-photovoltaic-capacity-added-in-germany-in-february/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/04/03/211-mw-of-new-solar-photovoltaic-capacity-added-in-germany-in-february/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:51:16 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=50350 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 largest of which was a new solar park in Brandenburg with a total capacity of 8.2 MW. The exact figures, released by the German

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/04/03/211-mw-of-new-solar-photovoltaic-capacity-added-in-germany-in-february/feed/ 6 Global Solar PV Demand To Hit 31 GW In 2013, Report Forecasts http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/13/global-solar-pv-demand-to-be-31-gw-in-2013-report-forecasts/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/13/global-solar-pv-demand-to-be-31-gw-in-2013-report-forecasts/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:47:13 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49474 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 projects that world PV consumption will rise by 7% on a year over year basis, with China overtaking Germany for

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/13/global-solar-pv-demand-to-be-31-gw-in-2013-report-forecasts/feed/ 3 China Atop Renewable Energy Ranks As Shale Gas Changes The Game http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/01/china-atop-ey-renewable-energy-list-as-shale-gas-changes-the-game/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/01/china-atop-ey-renewable-energy-list-as-shale-gas-changes-the-game/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:32:48 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49029 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 key to their continued growth.

What’s different now, according to Ernst & Young’s (E&Y) latest “Renewable energy country attractiveness indices,” is how shale gas development and crashing public financing are changing the way renewable energy is funded across the globe

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/01/china-atop-ey-renewable-energy-list-as-shale-gas-changes-the-game/feed/ 11 Renewable Energy Big Pic: Part 2 (Including 19 Charts & Graphs) http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/12/renewable-energy-big-pic-part-2-19-charts-graphs/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/12/renewable-energy-big-pic-part-2-19-charts-graphs/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:26:47 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=46030 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 renewable energy graduate students this week. Enjoy this second part, and chime in below if anything interesting or useful comes to mind. German

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/12/renewable-energy-big-pic-part-2-19-charts-graphs/feed/ 5 Renewable Energy Big Pic: Part 1 (Including 34 Charts & Graphs) http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/11/renewable-energy-big-pic-including-34-charts-graphs/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/11/renewable-energy-big-pic-including-34-charts-graphs/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:00:12 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=46002 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. But the presentation was actually on much, much more than that, as you’ll see in the article below and in the one to

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/11/renewable-energy-big-pic-including-34-charts-graphs/feed/ 19 Over 600 MW Of New Solar Installed In Germany In October (YTD = Almost 7,000 MW) http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/05/over-600-mw-of-new-solar-installed-in-germany-in-october-ytd-almost-7000-mw/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/05/over-600-mw-of-new-solar-installed-in-germany-in-october-ytd-almost-7000-mw/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:20:13 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=45783   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 registered last month. That brings the total for new solar power installations in Germany for the first ten months of 2012 to around

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/05/over-600-mw-of-new-solar-installed-in-germany-in-october-ytd-almost-7000-mw/feed/ 0 82 MW Of Solar At 17 Japanese Sites (Including Former Airport); Solar Tree Installations At GM; Solar Chargers For Camping (+ More Clean Power News) http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/04/82-mw-of-solar-at-17-japan-sites-including-former-airport-solar-tree-installations-at-gm-solar-chargers-for-camping-more-clean-power-news/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/04/82-mw-of-solar-at-17-japan-sites-including-former-airport-solar-tree-installations-at-gm-solar-chargers-for-camping-more-clean-power-news/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:39:31 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=45763   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 announced that Envision Solar International’s “Solar Tree” will see its first installation at a GM dealership in California, the Fremont Cadillac Buick GMC

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/04/82-mw-of-solar-at-17-japan-sites-including-former-airport-solar-tree-installations-at-gm-solar-chargers-for-camping-more-clean-power-news/feed/ 0 Solar Graph Porn http://cleantechnica.com/2012/11/29/solar-graph-porn/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/11/29/solar-graph-porn/#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:00:09 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=45571 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 dropped considerably in the past few years (as installation has boomed), and the prices are pretty darn low these days

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/11/23/sunny-crowd-claims-to-be-1st-crowdfunding-platform-for-renewable-energy/feed/ 7 News Bonanza: Clean Energy News, Climate Change News, and Clean Energy & Climate Policy News Link Love http://cleantechnica.com/2012/11/20/news-bonanza-clean-energy-climate-change-and-clean-energy-climate-policy-news-link-love/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/11/20/news-bonanza-clean-energy-climate-change-and-clean-energy-climate-policy-news-link-love/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:09:48 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=45273   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 Action: “A group of scientists in the top U.S. grain-growing state of Iowa said on Monday that this year’s harsh drought was a

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/11/20/news-bonanza-clean-energy-climate-change-and-clean-energy-climate-policy-news-link-love/feed/ 0 1,000 MW Of New Solar Power Installed In Germany In September, 6,000 MW Installed In 2012 Already http://cleantechnica.com/2012/11/07/1000-mw-of-new-solar-power-installed-in-germany-in-september-6000-mw-installed-in-2012-already/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/11/07/1000-mw-of-new-solar-power-installed-in-germany-in-september-6000-mw-installed-in-2012-already/#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:33:43 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=44836   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 Agency, The Bundesnetzagentur (or BNetzA). The solar industry there also saw solar generation growth of over 50% in the first 9

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/11/07/1000-mw-of-new-solar-power-installed-in-germany-in-september-6000-mw-installed-in-2012-already/feed/ 3 German Baseload Power Cheaper than French 12 Months Running http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/08/german-baseload-power-cheaper-than-french-12-months-running/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/08/german-baseload-power-cheaper-than-french-12-months-running/#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:48:09 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=43693   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 Switzerland and France. The EEX press release does mention that electricity prices converge (meet each other) 75% of the time. However, during periods of low power

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/08/german-baseload-power-cheaper-than-french-12-months-running/feed/ 22 New Efficiency Record for Photovoltaic Cells Set, Jump in Efficiency Thanks to Heterojunction Technology http://cleantechnica.com/2012/09/30/new-efficiency-record-for-photovoltaic-cells-set-jump-in-efficiency-thanks-to-heterojunction-technology/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/09/30/new-efficiency-record-for-photovoltaic-cells-set-jump-in-efficiency-thanks-to-heterojunction-technology/#comments Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:28:33 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=43347   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 Institute of Microengineering in Neuchatel. The research team, led by professor Christophe Ballif, director of the Photovoltaics Laboratory (PVlab), recently presented their work at the

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/09/30/new-efficiency-record-for-photovoltaic-cells-set-jump-in-efficiency-thanks-to-heterojunction-technology/feed/ 3 German Solar Power Capacity Hits All-Time High… Again (More Solar than Rest of Europe) http://cleantechnica.com/2012/09/24/german-solar-power-capacity-hits-all-time-high-again/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/09/24/german-solar-power-capacity-hits-all-time-high-again/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:44:14 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=43037 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 larger-than-expected cuts in Germany's solar feed-in tariff.

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