Originally published on Solar Love. SunPower* has long been an efficiency leader in commercially available solar PV cells and modules. It also routinely ranks in the top 10 for global solar module sales. If the even-higher-efficiency concentrated solar PV market ever takes off, it seems SunPower will also be a … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. With nearly 10% of the solar module market in 2013, Yingli Green Energy (YGE)* retained the #1 spot in the market. To be more exact, 9.4% of solar module capacity sold in 2013 came from Yingli. #2 was Trina Solar, which accounted for 8.2%; #3 … [continued]
Hanergy Solar is currently in the process of developing a 400 MW PV power plant in Northern Ghana, according to a recent press release. The project is still in its early stages, but once completed will be one of the biggest thin-film solar energy projects in the world, and will … [continued]
Originally published on Rocky Mountain Institute. By Rebecca Cole In the final installment of our eLab Accelerator blog series this week (read Part 1 and Part 2), we are reviewing three teams who are focused on developing strategies to understand and achieve clean energy futures. The increasing capability and affordability of renewables and … [continued]
Originally published on the website of the Union of Concerned Scientists. By Josh Goldman You may have heard a lot recently about electric vehicles (EVs). Sales of EVs are up, manufacturers are beginning to offer a variety of EV models – from sportscars to sedans – and our recent analysis found that 42 … [continued]
Originally published on EnergyPost. By John Mathews and Hao Tan China’s renewable energy revolution is powering ahead, with the year 2013 marking an important inflection point where the scales tipped more towards electric power generated from water, wind and solar than from fossil fuels and nuclear. This means that its … [continued]
During my January trip to the UAE for Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week*, a few other bloggers and I got to walk through GE’s fresh and clean** (just-opened) ecomagination Center. Located in Masdar City, this is GE’s only ecomagination center to date, despite the program being massively well funded and hugely successful. During … [continued]
US manufacturer SunPower has secured $42 million that will be aimed at escalating its solar leasing program. The California-based company now has 20,000 American households signed up for solar leasing, a trend initially led by others that SunPower has jumped into. This $42 financial investment comes from Hannon Armstrong Sustainable … [continued]
By John Perlin, author of Let It Shine: The 6000-Year Story of Solar Energy. Photo’s courtesy of AT&T archive. Sixty years ago on April 25, 1954, Bell Laboratories demonstrated to the world one of the most significant breakthroughs ever recorded in the history of solar energy and of electricity – the first solar … [continued]
Originally published on Renew Economy. It’s a pretty consistent theme on RenewEconomy, but given the apparent ignorance in the mainstream media, it’s worth banging on about: solar energy is delivering cheap energy to Australia’s home and businesses. Here a few graphs that bring some new insight into the falling cost … [continued]
