We regularly cover the benefits of residential rooftop solar, commercial rooftop solar, as well as full-blown utility-scale solar installations, but a British company is taking a different angle on solar. Renovagen has developed a stand-alone, remotely deployable photovoltaic (PV) solar panel solution that utilizes flexible solar panels. Looking like a roll of … [continued]
Last month, I went to Mumbai, India, to present at an institutional investment conference that was focused on disruptive technology. Complementing presentations by Piyush Goyal (India’s Minister of State for Power, Coal, and New and Renewable Energy) and Pashupathy Gopalan (SunEdison’s Asia Pacific President), I presented on cleantech disruption — the market disruption from solar power, wind power, … [continued]
Originally published on Sustainnovate. By Henry Lindon More than 6 gigawatts (GW) of generation capacity have now been installed by First Solar’s Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) group, according to a new press release from the company. The new milestone was passed sometime in early February, and was accompanied by … [continued]
Originally published on Sustainnovate. By Henry Lindon A new conversion efficiency world record for cadmium-telluride solar photovoltaic cells has been achieved by First Solar, according to a press release published a few hours ago. The new world record conversion efficiency of 22.1% was certified at the Newport Corporation’s Technology and … [continued]
Japan’s Solar Frontier comes up with a killer combo, a new low cost thin film solar manufacturing model and a new solar conversion efficiency record, too.
I’m getting close to the end of CleanTechnica‘s Renewable Cities Global Learning Forum coverage (see all of our Renewable Cities stories here), but this panel discussion is perhaps one I should have written about at the beginning. It provides a nice rundown of renewable energy trends across the globe. In this article, following the embedded … [continued]
At the “Energy for Tomorrow” conference in Paris, last week, one of the core discussions in the energy industry was: is a low-carbon world a challenge of deployment or one of innovation? In other words: do we already have the technologies we need (e.g. solar, wind, grid management) and now just need to … [continued]
Originally published on Sustainnovate. By Henry Lindon Wind energy and solar energy are notably beating out conventional generation modalities (coal, natural gas, nuclear, etc) with regard to production costs and abatement as well, according to a new study from the US investment bank Lazard. The report notes that, despite recent … [continued]
Originally published on Sustainnovate. By Henry Lindon First Solar’s project pipeline will still be viable even following the end of the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) in the US, according to a new investor note from Deutsche Bank. The investor note specifically stated that Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) being obtained by … [continued]
Check out these fun solar stories (after reading our own solar stories): New York Net Metering Cap Suspended For Now Adding to the distributed energy/net metering debate involving utilities and solar panel owners, New York State for now has lifted the cap on net metering. SDG&E Utility Warns It Will Hit Net Metering … [continued]
