Wednesday, May 22, 2013
We are familiar with the inexorable and welcome march of solar panels across our rooftops, but many might be surprised that utility-scale power plants are now the fastest-growing application for the photovoltaics (PV) industry. This sector has delivered...
As the deployment of grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) systems has increased, so too has the desire to track the installed price of these systems over time and by location, customer...
Vaughn K Buntain, managing director of RE Solutions and matchmaker between investors and project managers of large-scale solar plants, believes that 'suppliers to the solar industry have historically been order takers. The new environment requires suppliers...
Like so many people, Joy Hughes wanted to do something for the victims of the July 2012 mass shooting in a movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado in the US. But while others held vigils...
Timeshifting. The ability to store something for consumption at a more convenient time. Great for watching your favourite television shows. Ideal for solar PV, too, but sadly we are not at a stage where solar energy is widely timeshifted via a programmable...
Like the rest of us, advocates for renewables can fail to spot their true friends. Fans of the recent blockbuster Avatar might imagine that ecosystems get rescued by dreadlocked tree-huggers...
An average installed price of US$4.71/W has been reported for utility-scale solar PV projects for 2010, according to recent analysis from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)...
According to IMS Research's latest annual market report, The World Market for PV Inverters, the global PV inverter market is predicted to grow by 23% in 2012 to reach almost 32 GW....
The market for software for the renewable energy industry has expanded dramatically during the past 20 years. These days it's not good enough to build a power plant in a sunny part of the world and hope for the best.
