The UK power sector is on track to reach a “landmark tipping point,” according to National Grid, the country’s national grid operator, as it nears the point where non-fossil fuel sources generate more electricity than traditional fossil fuel-powered generation.
With fracking about to recommence in the UK after 8 years, social entrepreneur and writer Jeremy Leggett reviews the short but troubled history of fracking in the US. In a devastating slide presentation, he pictures the shale gas industry as a dirty, multi-hundred-billion-dollar doomed-to-burst debt bubble. And he predicts a similar fiasco in the UK.
IKEA has teamed up with LG Chem to offer customers solar panel and storage battery packages. Meanwhile, a new study says government support of storage battery research is essential to driving down prices in the future.
One of the world’s most respected and oldest solar companies, Solarcentury, will partner with the European Union and United Nations Development Programme to build two solar-powered mini-grids in Eritrea, in East Africa.
IKEA has unveiled Solar Shops, its new-look home solar offering, in three of its major UK stores this week. Announced on Monday, IKEA UK unveiled Solar Shops, its in-store offering to sell residential solar installations, “as part of the company’s mission to help people live more sustainably and affordably in … [continued]
The British company Solarcentury says it will install the largest storage battery for a solar power system in East Africa. Two solar power systems will be installed at Kenya’s International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, a scientific research institute located in Nairobi. A third solar power system will be built … [continued]
UK-based solar energy company Solarcentury has expanded its European footprint by building and selling its first solar farm in Germany. Solarcentury announced on its website that it has developed, constructed, and sold the 4.7 MW Calvörde solar farm, located in Sachsen-Anhalt state, eastern Germany. The solar farm, though small and providing only … [continued]
Haven’t read enough about the Clean Power Plan? There’s a ton more about it below (has its own section this week), as well as solar energy news, other renewable energy news, coal news (there’s a lot of that this week, too), Clean Power Plan Climate Change And President Obama’s Action … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. Solarcentury has teamed up with Colombian company Hybrytec to build the country’s largest solar PV roof system, atop Exito’s Barranquilla store. Solarcentury is one of the oldest solar companies in the world, and Hybrytec is a Colombian company leading the local solar energy market, with 7 years experience and … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. Homeowners demanding more “curb appeal” for their rooftop solar installations will be interested in the elegant new Solarcentury building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) solar modules. Sunstation, a new BIPV solar roof system designed with an eye to aesthetics, is now available from Solarcentury and primed for mass … [continued]
