Germany’s Federal Network Agency announced the winners this week from its first onshore wind and solar auctions for 2018, awarding more than 900 megawatts to over 100 separate projects.
Germany piloted a new system for setting the price paid for electricity from ground-mounted photovoltaic arrays in 2015. Instead of receiving a government-set feed-in tariff, interested parties bid in three solar auctions for a share of 500 MW of capacity. On Wednesday, Germany’s federal minister for economic affairs and energy, … [continued]
Mexico solar has so far underperformed compared to other Latin America markets, but GTM Research forecasts the country’s solar market will soon grow twice as fast as the entire region.
RenewEconomy. The results of India’s latest solar auction are in, and it is bad news for developers of Australian coal projects – solar PV is cheaper for Indian users than the electricity price needed to pay for imports of coal from Australia. A tender for 500MW of solar capacity in … [continued]
I’ve already written about a couple of companies that are essentially aimed at being the Expedia or Orbitz of solar power (1BOG and EnergySage). But a new one is coming on to the scene that is modeled after another successful internet company, eBay. The company is SolarExchange.com. SolarExchange.com (Solar Exchange) … [continued]
