Infographic — A Summer Day in Germany
July 24th, 2012 | by Thomas Gerke
This week, Germany got wonderful sunny weather all over the place, which made me hopeful that a new solar power [&hellip
July 24th, 2012 | by Thomas Gerke
This week, Germany got wonderful sunny weather all over the place, which made me hopeful that a new solar power [&hellip
July 20th, 2012 | by Thomas Gerke
Sometime ago, I was asked in a comment how common photovoltaic systems are in Germany today. So, I thought I [&hellip
July 8th, 2012 | by Thomas Gerke
Earlier this year, New York City reached a total of 8.4 MW of installed solar capacity. This meant that the [&hellip
July 5th, 2012 | by Thomas Gerke
This is an awesome, short video of the first big, industrial-scale push towards solar energy in human history. The [&hellip
July 4th, 2012 | by Thomas Gerke
German solar power producers have once again set a new world record in solar energy production by pumping 14.7 TWh [&hellip
June 28th, 2012 | by Thomas Gerke
Sol Invictus, the Invincible Sun, was the roman sun god and patron of the late emperors. While the sun is without [&hellip
June 22nd, 2012 | by Thomas Gerke
This short post will compare two countries to showcase what is possible with solar energy technology. The two countries in [&hellip
June 14th, 2012 | by Thomas Gerke
The 10-MW solar power plant pictured above is located at the northern slope of a gravel and sand pit [&hellip
June 12th, 2012 | by Thomas Gerke
I found these awesome graphs and charts that illustrate the electricity production patterns of solar and wind power in [&hellip
June 11th, 2012 | by Thomas Gerke
Since the tragic and ongoing nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant began, Japan has been plunged [&hellip
June 6th, 2012 | by Thomas Gerke
Strategic Decisions On Monday, Panasonic announced that it will launch mass production of long-life lithium-ion battery systems that the [&hellip
June 3rd, 2012 | by Thomas Gerke
Last Thursday, the German federal grid regulatory agency — the Bundesnetzagentur — handed a draft for a plan to [&hellip
May 31st, 2012 | by Thomas Gerke
Last Friday, on the 25th of May 2012, Germany set a new world solar energy record in photovoltaic solar energy: [&hellip
May 25th, 2012 | by Thomas Gerke
Thursday, PV-Solar broke through the 20 GW barrier for the first time, but before I managed to write about that, [&hellip
April 23rd, 2012 | by Thomas Gerke
The first two parts of this series took a closer look at the political changes that occurred here in Germany at [&hellip
April 23rd, 2012 | by Thomas Gerke
A Small Town in Germany The municipality of Bruchsmühlbach-Miesau consists of typical German small towns and villages. Located in the [&hellip
April 16th, 2012 | by Thomas Gerke
Where is the Positive Image of Nuclear Energy Coming From? Despite the problems and disasters of the past and [&hellip