I’ve written about UK solar schools initiatives for years (see some links on bottom of page). Some have made quite notable progress. However, there are still a lot more British schools without solar power than with it. Now, Abundance Generation has launched a project that allows people to not only donate to … [continued]
The state utility company of Dubai, the Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA), has officially opened a tender for a solar power plant 100 MW in size. The tender is for the second phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. The first phase of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar … [continued]
It looks as though the planned 20 MW Mililani solar photovoltaic project is set to soon begin providing O’ahu residents with clean electricity, as a request has already been filed by operator, First Wind, and it’s partner, the Hawaiian Electric Company, with the Hawai’i Public Utilities Commission. The request calls … [continued]
IKEA plugged in its mammoth stores in Belfast and Dublin last fall. Not content with photovoltaic solar on 90% of its American rooftops, IKEA has just invested in a 380-gigawatt-hour wind farm big enough to power every one of its stores in the United States—and then some. The Swedish home … [continued]
GE Energy Financial Services — the energy arm of US conglomerate General Electric (GE) — recently announced that it will be financially backing a massive 230 MW solar PV power plant currently being slated to be constructed in the Japanese city of Setouchi. The US-based GE is planning to invest … [continued]
Frankly, this is something to get used to. If you look at the first chart below, quarterly solar records are being broken almost every quarter these days. Nonetheless, each record is a celebration, each record is an important move forward. And Q1 2014 was definitely worth plenty of celebration. Check … [continued]
For a variety of reasons, solar companies have had a hard time profit-wise in recent years. However, that doesn’t mean their sales haven’t been growing. The solar market has grown in size year after year, and for the companies that squeezed through the toughest of financial times, the future looks … [continued]
Yes, the newly completed Hanwha Q CELLS utility-scale solar farm at a Superfund Site in Indianapolis is the first of its kind and it illustrates a point we’ve been hammering on for a while now: solar power lets you extract energy and value from already-built-upon sites, even blighted Superfund sites. … [continued]
IRENA and the Abu Dhabi Fund For Development (ADFD) are doing some great work to bring renewable energy to more communities in the developing world. I already covered this initiative back in January, including most of what is discussed in the video below. However, if you want to hear the head of … [continued]
Originally published on Kompulsa. In March alone, Lightsource Renewable Energy connected 26 photovoltaic solar farms amounting to 227 MW in the United Kingdom. This wasn’t a normal month, though — the UK’s renewable subsidies program for large-scale solar systems was going to be cut on April 1. So, the projects were … [continued]
