PV

Is independence day around the corner for thin film?

Tuesday, 20 September 2011 REM Can thin film PV support itself without subsidies? With the high-profile collapse of Solyndra placing the wider thin film community under scrutiny, thin film specialist event organiser, PV Insider, has ...

Breakthrough in sight for new cheaper solar cells

Monday, 19 September 2011 REM Last week, Renewable Energy Magazine reported on a breakthrough made by Berkley Lab using nanowires. Today, it is the turn of researchers at the University of Surrey (England) who have reported a novel ...

REC wins award on achieving one-year energy payback period

Monday, 19 September 2011 REM Earlier this month, the Norwegian solar module producer, REC, received the 2011 Solar Industry Award for its proprietary Fluidized Bed Reactor (FBR) Process, which significantly reduces the energy required ...

Belgium

Brussels luxury hotel to begin producing green energy

Friday, 16 September 2011 REM Hotel and resort Dolce La Hulpe Brussels is set to become a green-energy producer, having equipped its roof with more than 1,000 photovoltaic solar panels with a total capacity of 250,000 Wp. The panels ...

Nanowire solar cells “truly promising” for PV’s future

Friday, 16 September 2011 REM A team from Berkeley Lab has developed an inexpensive technique for making high quality nanowire solar cells, which could help to cut photovoltaic (PV) solar cell production costs while maintaining cell ...

PV Cycle's new President to bring in “new era” of recycling standards

Tuesday, 13 September 2011 Toby Price It was announced during the 26th EU PVSEC in Hamburg last week that Wilfried Taetow of Sanyo Component has been elected as the new President of PV Cycle. Taetow reveals that strengthening PV Cycle’s ...

NREL releases data on impact of clouds on solar output

Monday, 12 September 2011 REM The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)has produced and made available a rich data set showing what happens, second-by-second, when clouds pass over a solar ...

US PV manufacturer SpectraWatt to auction off production facilities

Thursday, 08 September 2011 REM Bankrupt US photovoltaics component manufacturer SpectraWatt, which promoted itself with the tagline, "capturing the sun," will auction off its 140,000 square foot fully-automated, ...

US Navy awards $500 million for solar projects in Hawaii

Wednesday, 07 September 2011 Dan McCue

The US Navy has awarded a combined $500 million to three companies to develop distributed solar system for 11 facilities the military service owns in Hawaii.

Cost of solar electricity to be halved by 2020

Tuesday, 06 September 2011 REM New analysis of major European electricity markets published by the European photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) shows solar photovoltaic electricity (PV) can achieve competitiveness in some market ...