Originally published on Solar Love. US renewable energy subsidies are scheduled to expire on December 31, 2016. What will replace them? The answer may well depend on the next general election results in November of next year. Politicians are already honing their campaign rhetoric and many conservatives are openly hostile to … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. Solar energy generation surged by around 153% over the last year in the UK, based on the most recent figures from the analyst company EnAppSys — with average daily electricity generation being around 1.37 gigawatts (GW) during the second quarter of 2015. The new report … [continued]
The SolarCity-backed American rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) mounting solutions specialist Zep Solar is now aiming to enter the UK market later this year. Given that Zep Solar was acquired by SolarCity back in 2013, the move certainly seems to be an interesting one — and suggests that SolarCity may itself … [continued]
RenewableUK, one of the UK’s leading renewable energy trade energy associations, has handed over a petition signed by 3,000 supporters of small- and medium-scale wind to four UK Governmental departments. The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change, the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Department for Environment, Food & … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. New figures released Monday by Wiki-Solar have pegged global utility-scale solar PV capacity at 45 gigawatts at the halfway mark of 2015. According to the self-proclaimed utility-solar authority, there were 8 gigawatts (GW) of new solar PV plants in the first half of 2015, which could … [continued]
Originally published on SolarLove.org Putting climate change in the classroom in new and exciting ways, Solar Schools offers a totally unique way to crowdfund clean energy for UK schools. Run by 10:10, a UK-based charity helping to tackle global warming, the Solar Schools program has helped schools raise £470,000 ($724,785) … [continued]
Schneider Electric connected over 300 MW of solar power in the UK in March, the company has just announced. The 300 MW of solar is distributed over 20 different sites, and 7 different companies assisted in their construction. Schneider’s technology — in the form of monitoring cabinets, integrated inverters, transformers, switchgears, … [continued]
It’s Earth Day, which many green bloggers hate, since spending just 1 day thinking about how to preserve human livability on this small planet simply doesn’t cut it. On the flip side, it is an opportunity to make more people aware of the benefits of solar energy, electric vehicles, bicycling, and … [continued]
Lightsource — arguably the top solar energy company in the UK — just announced that it will be investing more than £125 million (~$193 million) into the UK rooftop solar market in 2015. This investment is intended to aid the company in reaching its goal of possessing 1 gigawatt (GW) … [continued]
Worldwide utility-scale solar energy installations surged for a fifth consecutive year in 2014, as per new provisional figures from Wiki-Solar.org. This continuing surge in installations was aided by notable growth in the South American and African markets, but the big dogs were still Asia and North & Central America. The … [continued]
