Inside China, a global leader in renewable energy investment, lies Yingli Solar, the largest solar company in the world, a major sponsor of the World Cup, and the first renewable energy as well as the first Chinese company to sponsor the World Cup in 2010. Sponsors typically fork out $50 to $100 … [continued]
A number of prominent China-based solar energy companies saw their stock rise substantially on Monday (July 14), thanks to the World Trade Organization’s recent ruling against the US imposition of tariffs on Chinese solar modules, steel products, and other exports. According to the WTO, tariffs violate global trade rules — … [continued]
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]
1Sun4All July 12 is the date of the Innovation award at Solar Decathlon 2014 Europe, and the students from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Brown University and the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt, Germany — officially known as “Team Inside/Out” in the competition — have their eye this prize. Techstyle Haus is unique and a first for … [continued]
This week, San Francisco hosted the 2014 Intersolar North America event. Since its establishment in 2008, the exhibition + conference has developed into the premier platform for the solar industry in North America. In total, 576 exhibitors and 17,881 trade visitors participated in 2013, and the conference featured more than 50 sessions … [continued]
Originally Published in the ECOreport Peter Varadi is one of the few people who could be said to personify the solar industry. He and his partner, Joseph Lindmayer, helped develop this technology for space, and founded the World’s first terrestrial solar company in 1973. Solarex was the worlds largest, and possibly … [continued]
The solar PV market is growing fast, and especially so in the leading solar PV countries. The top 5 solar countries will account for nearly 80% of the global solar PV market in the second half of 2014. However, if you look a bit closer, the details indicate sharp differences within the … [continued]
As unprecedented storms, extinctions, and water, food, and energy wars continue to touch our world, warnings about destructive human-made climate change multiply and increase in stridency. At the United Nations in New York yesterday, some possible solutions were officially released. (VIDEO available here.) Experts from leading world research institutes convened … [continued]
Originally Published in the ECOreport Peter Sinclair’s video Birthing a Solar Age illustrates the disruptive power of solar technology. As Jerry Rifkin points out in one of the interviews, Germany obtained 75% of its electricity from renewable energy one day last month. Critics will, correctly, point out that this was … [continued]
While renewable energy development gets a lot of press, coal power still rules in terms of worldwide growth, particularly in the developing world.
