Despite expected declines in key solar PV markets Germany and Japan, GlobalData is predicting solar PV growth will still grow in 2015. Analytics and intelligence firm GlobalData published its Mid-Year Solar Power Market Update report in November — reports which are always trailing behind as accurate and complete information takes … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. Reportedly, Germany has 35 GW of installed solar capacity and that could grow fairly soon to 52 GW. For the sake of comparison, the US has about 22 GW. A new analysis states that Germany could surpass its current level of installed solar with no problems, providing that … [continued]
Originally published on the ECOreport Germany’s rooftops and facades could produce as much 300 GW of electricity. The challenge is storing the energy so that it is not simply dumped on the grid during peak hours. A new paper from Agora Energiewende suggests how Germany could reach 150 GW of solar capacity. Using Alternate Storage … [continued]
Can’t get enough clean electricity reading? Here’s more! Solar Solar + Electric Transport = Huge Social Implications Net Metering Review: Value of Solar Energy Higher Than Retail Electric Rates Obama Just Picked The Customer’s Side Against The Nevada Utility That’s Trying To Kill Rooftop Solar Platform Aims to Reduce the Cost of Solar in … [continued]
Belectric’s 2,000 kWh (kilowatt-hour) containerized battery storage system (the Energy Buffer Unit) at the Alt Daber solar project in Brandenburg, Germany, has been green-lighted to begin operating in the country’s grid-balancing frequency response market, according to recent reports. For a bit of background here, the 2,000 kWh battery storage system … [continued]
Welspun Renewables Energy Limited, a subsidiary of one of the leading Indian solar power developer has signed a deal with German-based iPLON for supply of automation systems for the former’s upcoming portfolio of 550 MW solar PV projects. The agreement was announced during Hannover Messe, one of the largest engineering … [continued]
I forget now how I ran across this chart, but it’s a nice one. It shows that residential solar PV power hit socket parity (aka grid parity) in California, Germany, Australia, Italy, and the Netherlands in 2013. Of course, these are based on averages, including average solar PV system prices and average … [continued]
The US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015 team Texas/Germany — the University of Texas at Austin and Technische Universitaet Muenchen in Germany — has designed an affordable, net-zero energy, water self-sufficient home — NexusHaus — that has two 420-ft2 modules. One unit houses living, dining, and kitchen areas, and the other houses two … [continued]
Germany’s plans for its first national solar tender make no sense, according to the country’s national solar trade organization, BSW Solar. BSW Solar notes that the tender will lower market volumes for large solar farms right at the time that the power generated by them continues to fall in price. As per a … [continued]
Germany seems to be looking for new financial sources to push its solar power market to the next level. Germany has approached investors in Saudi Arabia for investment in the farmer’s solar power market. The investors are being promised 15% return on the capital invested. Germany is possibly the most mature … [continued]
