This post originally published on RenewEconomy One of the most comprehensive reports on the decline in solar PV prices has just been released by the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. Its Tracking the Sun report details the history of solar PV prices from 1998 to 2012, and one of its more … [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]
Texas A&M University has launched the world’s biggest solar photovoltaic research and development facility, a $600 million 800-acre center that could kickstart the state’s solar manufacturing industry.
The US has reached an elite club, becoming only the fourth nation to pass 10GW installed solar photovoltaic capacity according to analysis by NPD Solarbuzz.
Aggressive photovoltaic development by China and Japan in the second half of 2013 is expected to push the global solar photovoltaic (PV) demand up 22% year over year to 20 gigawatts (GW) according to the new NPD Solarbuzz Quarterly report. This second half push will push the full year 2013 … [continued]
Natural gas is widely considered the bridge to take us from fossil fuel dependence to a clean energy future – but that bridge may be a lot shorter than anyone could have predicted.
The International Energy Agency predicts power generation from renewable sources will exceed natural gas and be twice the contribution from nuclear energy globally by 2016.
Concentrating solar power could unlock America’s clean energy future and boost solar from intermittent contributor to baseload generator – if we clear the regulatory, technological, and financial hurdles standing in the way, says a new white paper.
The latest NPD Solarbuzz North America PV Markets Quarterly has forecast growing US demand for solar photovoltaic (PV) panels throughout the rest of 2013 towards another record high of 4.3 GW, a near-20% increase over 2012 levels. Such demand has brought US contribution to the global market to over 12%, … [continued]
A new research report from Lux Research predicts that the solar photovoltaic market is expected to grow to a $155 billion industry by 2018, “as market forces engineer a turnaround to a healthy 10.5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR).” The report produced a “most likely scenario” in which the PV … [continued]
Derived from German-language reports, Germany’s Federal Environment Minister, Peter Altmaier, announced that the country had added 290 megawatts (MW) of new photovoltaic capacity in March. This information comes ahead of expected Federal Network Agency figures, but if the information proves to be accurate then that not only means that Germany … [continued]
