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 … [continued]
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 … [continued]
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 … [continued]
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 …
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 English translation (from German) of the homepage of sunnycrowd.com says that it is … [continued]
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 … [continued]
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 … [continued]
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, … [continued]
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 … [continued]
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. […]
