Originally published on Climate Progress. By Kiley Kroh Continuing its impressive commitment to being 100 percent carbon neutral by 2020, Swedish retailer IKEA announced the purchase of a 46-megawatt wind farm in Alberta, Canada. The 20-turbine farm is expected to generate 161 gigawatt-hours of power each year, or more than double the … [continued]
Editor’s note: We’ve covered almost all of the stories noted below, but this overall summary of the Japanese solar market from Think Progress is quite good, so I decided to go ahead and repost it. Enjoy! By Ari Phillips Last week, amid the 19th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate … [continued]
SunEdison, a world-leading provider of solar solutions based in the US, has designed and developed a PV solar-powered water pumping technology for irrigation. It has just been launched in India. The technology comes in 3HP, 5HP, 7.5HP, and 10HP variants powered by highly efficient 3-phase AC electric motors. These pumps … [continued]
For those of you who thought concentrating solar power was losing the fight for hearts, minds, and profits, take a look at a couple of CSP plants in Israel’s Arava region. One features a bright yellow tulip-shaped tower and another is based on parabolic troughs and heated oil. Along with … [continued]
GTM Research have released their ‘Global PV Pricing Outlook 2014’, and thanks to the stabilisation of the PV supply chain during 2013, they expect global PV prices to increase 9% during the next year. The report notes that the PV supply chain began to stabilise “due in part to robust … [continued]
Japan hasn’t been a target market for companies like First Solar, due in part to the country’s reliance upon nuclear technology. However, as Japan attempts to move herself away from reliance upon nuclear — in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of 2011, and in the face of … [continued]
After the state’s solar energy law passed in 2013, Minnesota’s largest electric utility, Xcel Energy, was required to create a program to support the development of community solar energy. Since 3 in 4 people can’t have solar on their own rooftop (because they rent, or have a nice shade tree), … [continued]
The amount of solar power forecast to be installed in China in 2014 was recently increased to 12 GW, according to a report released by the Chinese Bureau of Energy on November 14, 2013. This includes 8 GW of distributed photovoltaic solar systems and 4 GW of ground-mount systems. While … [continued]
The government of Uganda has just signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the construction of four large solar power plants totaling 500 megawatts (MW) of capacity! According to PV-Tech, these solar power plants will be built for the Ugandan Development Corporation, possibly using Jinko solar modules as proposed by … [continued]
With its remote location in Israel’s Arava region, Kibbutz Ketura would seem to be an unlikely place to start a green energy revolution. However, this particular community happens to be the home of multiple Nobel Prize nominee, sustainability innovator and “impact investor” Yosef Abramowitz, co-founder of the Arava Power Company. … [continued]
