1Sun4All A house is just a building until people live in it. Then it becomes a home. Although U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon houses are not lived in during competition, Solar Decathlon visitors may ask themselves whether they could be comfortable homes when stepping through their thresholds, reports Carol … [continued]
1Sun4All David Schieren is the chief executive officer of a leading Long Island, New York, solar engineering and installation company. He’s also a U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon alumnus and outspoken advocate for the competition, writes Carol Laurie for Solar Decathlon. Schieren emphasizes the Solar Decathlon’s unique way of teaching … [continued]
1Sun4All Not consuming energy is better than buying or producing it—even when that energy is generated by clean, renewable solar, reports Carol Laurie for the Solar Decathlon. That’s the message the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015 is sending to decathletes through the Energy Balance Contest, which measures the energy each team … [continued]
Originally Published in the ECOreport Between 1 pm and 2 pm on Friday, June 6, Germany’s solar photovoltaic systems generated a record 24.24 GW. The real peak came three days later, when they provided 50.6% of the nation’s electricity, which shows solar technology’s potential. The current reality is that solar contributed … [continued]
Like an inexorable tide, the global solar PV industry continues to grow from strength to strength, pushing past the cumulative total of 150 GW of solar PV installed by the middle of 2014. Writing on behalf of NPD Solarbuzz, senior analyst Michael Barker notes that the solar PV industry has “steadily … [continued]
Writing on the NPD Solarbuzz blog, senior analyst Michael Barker has predicted that the US photovoltaic (PV) market is set to reach a cumulative total of 20 GW by the end of 2014, thanks primarily to continuing declines in cost. Barker notes that with the US grid reaching a cumulative … [continued]
Originally published on Planetsave. Internet and solar giants Google and SunPower announced a useful break for power customers (and a small climate change deterrent) yesterday by entering a $250 million partnership in clean US home energy for the future. A new fund ($100 million from Google and $150 million from … [continued]
A new report from NPD Solarbuzz has revealed expectations that the European solar photovoltaic (PV) market is set to recover during the fourth quarter of 2013 and rebound into 2014 after an 18 month downturn. According to the report, quarterly European PV demand is set to stabilise at 2.5 GW … [continued]
New research conducted by NPD Solarbuzz and featured on their blog this past week shows that Japanese solar photovoltaic “PV” installations have now passed 10 GW for cumulative PV capacity, only the fifth country to reach the mark. Of the previous four — Germany, Italy, China, and the US — … [continued]
The latest NPD Solarbuzz Module Tracker Quarterly has been released and shows that quarterly solar photovoltaic (PV) module shipments for the second quarter of 2013 exceeded 5.8 GW, a 21% growth over second quarter-2012 levels. The figures released in the latest report represent the shipping levels for the leading 20 PV … [continued]
