480,000 New Solar Home Systems For Bangladesh
The World Bank will loan the government of Bangladesh enough to increase the number of the country’s solar home systems by 480,000.
141 MW Solar Power Plant Set For Chile
International investment agencies approved funding for a 10 MW solar power plant in Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the world optimal locations for solar.
NEX Clean Energy Index On A Roll, Outperforming Nasdaq And S&P 500 (Graph)
The NEX Clean Energy Index has been on quite a roll the last year — recovering rather rapidly from the drop that it experienced back in 2011. Since mid-2013, the index has actually been outperforming Nasdaq and the S&P 500 — and is apparently still growing its lead, as you … [continued]
Lithium Ion Batteries Get Big Performance Boost From Wonder Material Known As… Sand
A new lithium ion battery that notably outperforms the industry standard across a wide variety of different parameters was recently created by researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering, through the use of a new “wonder material.” The new wonder material is, of course… sand. Yes. … [continued]
French Solar Industry Pushing Government To Set Stronger Targets
The French solar energy industry — via a consortium of twelve major firms — is currently pushing the French government hard for the adoption of stronger solar energy goals, according to recent reports. To be more specific, the firms are pushing the new environment and energy minister, Ségolène Royal, to … [continued]
Smartenergy Renewables Finishes Facility Upgrade, Production Ramped Up
Smartenergy Renewables recently completed the overhaul, conversion, and facility upgrade of its now fully-automated solar panel manufacturing plant in Luckenwalde, according to a release from the company. The completely overhauled facility — set up to assemble crystalline solar panels in an automated line, and possessing a maximum capacity of 120 … [continued]
Opower Eyeing The Community Solar Market
Opower — up until now a software-as-a-service company that partners with utilities around the world to promote energy efficiency — is now eyeing the distributed solar energy market as well, according to a recent announcement. The announcement comes on the heels of the company’s successful release of its fifth-generation software … [continued]
Mountaintop Coal Mining Schooled By Federal Judge
Advocates for mountaintop coal mining lost a big one last Friday, when the DC Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the EPA’s new environmental review process.
BNEF: Europe To Invest $1 Trillion Into Renewables By 2030
Europe will invest around $1 trillion into growing its renewable energy capacity by the year 2030, according to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Of this, a very substantial amount is expected to be into rooftop solar PV ($339 billion) and onshore wind energy ($250 billion). The growing … [continued]
Italy’s Robbery Of Solar Investors Hard To Rationalize, Says Photon Energy CEO
Italy’s recent move to introduce retroactive anti-solar measures is a form of robbery according Photon Energy’s CEO Georg Hotar. And while it’s to be expected that the Southern European country’s move would have investors and many in the industry foaming at the mouth, it’s still quite hard not to agree … [continued]
