Last week, the talk of the solar town in India was a webinar organized by Bridge To India — a New Delhi–based solar market intelligence firm, in partnership with Tata Power Solar. The webinar was attended by around 200 professionals from across the solar sector. The webinar discussions revolved around a … [continued]
Before we shared this chart in an article about the extremely low cost of wind power, one of our readers actually sent it along to me with the dashed red line inserted as above (click on the chart to see it more clearly). It’s exciting to see wind power at such a … [continued]
RenewEconomy. One graph in the International Energy Agency’s latest Solar Roadmap report highlights how the dramatic cost reductions in rooftop solar PV has caught the world by surprise – and caused the likes of the IEA to revisit their forecasts, and for incumbent industries to review their business models. Four … [continued]
Originally published on Rocky Mountain Institute. By Peter Bronski Leaving behind the limitations of levelized cost of energy for a better energy metric Once upon a time I was infatuated with levelized cost of energy (LCOE). It has had staying power, in prevalent use for decades as a metric of … [continued]
En route to its 2050 Energiewende goal of 80% of the nation’s power being supplied by renewables, especially spurred on by the phaseout of nuclear reactors, Germany broke another renewable energy record on Sunday, May 11, 2014. Europe’s biggest clean-energy market reached almost 75% renewable power market share noon on … [continued]
Originally published on sister site Planetsave. Agora Energiewende this week released the results of a cost analysis of four different CO2-free power scenarios in Europe. Says Patrick Graichen, executive director of Agora: Wind and solar systems will dominate the power system in increasingly more countries. The battle for the cheapest … [continued]
Originally published on Renew Economy. It’s a pretty consistent theme on RenewEconomy, but given the apparent ignorance in the mainstream media, it’s worth banging on about: solar energy is delivering cheap energy to Australia’s home and businesses. Here a few graphs that bring some new insight into the falling cost … [continued]
Originally published on Rocky Mountain Institute. By Dan Seif and James Mandel When people say “Keep Austin weird” they really mean keep it small and special. And we’re all for keeping Austin weird as it’s a cool city with awesome music. While utility scale solar finance is still “weird” in that it involves … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Another of the world’s leading solar PV manufacturing giants has underlined the potential for yet more substantial falls in the manufacturing cost of solar modules, even as the cost of fossil fuels – and gas in particular – surges in the opposite direction. Beyond the near-term … [continued]
One of our readers, Kanaga Gnana, recently sent along a November report from the Fraunhofer Institute that has a number of interesting charts in it. I pulled out 6 for sharing here. Have a look. In this first one, you can see CSP vs PV vs CPV levelized cost of … [continued]
