As we’ve reported several times here on CleanTechnica, German solar is much cheaper than US solar. Clearly, part of that is due to simple economies of scale (Germany has 301.5 MW of solar power installed per million people; the US has 14 MW per million people). Overall, though, from … [continued]
Here’s a nice bit of a Guardian interview with Cem Özdemir, Chair of the German Green party, that was just published yesterday: by Philip Oltermann How would you sell the benefits of wind energy to the Brits? That’s easy. It’s not about ecology: there are pragmatic economic reasons for taking wind energy … [continued]
Worldwide, the clean technology market is worth more than €2 trillion a year, and it is expected to more than double in size by the mid 2020s, according to new research commissioned by the German government. This doubling of market size is expected to occur regardless of potential ongoing global financial turmoil […]
Last week, I published a post on the point that the retail price of electricity in Germany has risen at the same time that whole electricity prices have dropped. Basically, it utility profit margins in Germany have just gone up, and renewable energy has been used as a scapegoat for rising consumer energy prices.
One of our readers actually dropped a tremendously useful link in the comments, a link which included the graph below […]
Germany has launched a €36-million research project into li-ion battery safety that will last 3 years.
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is going to contribute €19 million ($24 million) to the €36 million ($46 million) public-private research project intended to improve the safety of lithium-ion batteries for battery-electric (BEV) and hybrid-electric vehicles (HEV).
Financial private sector contributions to this project amounted to €17 million ($22 million) […]
Germany’s electric grid recently set a personal record with a downtime of only 15.31 minutes in 2011, that’s significantly lower than the already impressive 17.44 minutes of downtime that occurred during the time period from 2006 the 2010. This basically crushes the common myth that renewable energy hurts grid reliability — it actually seems to have the opposite effect. […]
According to the recent Global Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Indices Report (CAI) released by Ernst & Young, China continues to dominate the global renewable energy sector. The survey grades 40 nations based on their renewable energy markets, renewable energy infrastructure, and their suitability for individual technologies. Even though dropping … [continued]
Despite publishing about 35 articles on solar power in the past week, there are still a ton of big solar news stories we couldn’t get to but that we wouldn’t want you to miss. Here’s a quick summary of them: 25MW California Solar Project Now Under Construction: SolarWorld has … [continued]
Germany added 543 MW of solar power capacity in July, according to the German Federal Network Agency. According to Matt McDermott of Treehugger: “[In] the first half of 2012 Germany has installed just over 4.37 gigawatts of grid-tied solar power. Remarkably just about 1.8 GW of that happened in … [continued]
Iron ore mines in Brazil, a chromium mine in South Africa, and an open-cast coal mine in Germany’s Rhennish mining area — they’re all making use of, or preparing to make use of, renewable energy systems, an emerging trend that could benefit mining companies and local communities in several substantial respects. […]
