(Reuters) – The spreading coronavirus is threatening project schedules in the booming U.S. solar industry following a year in which the sector topped natural gas as the nation’s top new Continue Reading
The solar market is becoming supersized, with the size and scale of solar projects soaring and some of the biggest names in the tech industry getting behind the renewable energy Continue Reading
There’s a new trend in solar energy projects, and it seems to be the staunch belief that bigger is better. As the pressure mounts around the world to decarbonize the Continue Reading
For years after northern Finland’s largest printing plant blanketed its facility’s eight roofs with solar panels, the curious beat a path to the extraordinary spectacle. There were skeptics who doubted Continue Reading
After two underwhelming years of solar job contraction in the United States, the solar industry’s employment returned to growth in 2019, thanks to an expansion in U.S. solar installations. The Continue Reading
Alliant Energy said Friday it is likely to file in the second quarter with regulators its rate plan covering the first tranche of a 1,000 MW solar buildout that will Continue Reading
Beside the green pastures and sugarcane plantations surrounding the farming town of Porto Feliz is the strange sight of hundreds of blue, silicon panes turned towards the sun. This solar Continue Reading
While analysts and international agencies are already assessing the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak on global oil demand, the damage to the energy industry is extending well beyond oil. Promising Continue Reading
The Kominek family farm is a green expanse of hay and alfalfa in northern Colorado. The family has planted and raked crops for half a century, but as yields declined Continue Reading
In a dusty northwest India desert dotted with cows and the occasional camel, a solar-power plant is producing some of the world’s cheapest energy. Built in 2018 by India’s Acme Continue Reading
Last month was the hottest January in all recorded history. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), land and ocean temperatures across the globe were higher last month Continue Reading
Solar power is no longer confined to daylight hours. Thanks to a wave of investment, solar farms across the US are increasingly being built with industrial-scale battery packs on site so Continue Reading
The coronavirus outbreak is impacting the energy sector beyond the depressed oil demand in the world’s top oil importer and key oil demand growth driver, China. Due to factory shutdowns Continue Reading
More than 645 MW of solar capacity in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas neared commercial operation in January, which will boost the state’s solar nameplate capacity by more than Continue Reading
Duke spending $1 billion on solar through 2022 Sets aggressive ‘mid-century max-out’ target As Duke Energy Florida adds solar generation capacity, legislation that would require all of Florida’s power to Continue Reading
Qatar plans to develop a 800 MW solar power plant near the capital Doha, in partnership with France’s Total and Marubeni of Japan as the Middle East state accelerates its Continue Reading
The U.S. government has approved First Solar Inc.’s proposed $1 billion Desert Quartzite Solar Project on roughly 3,000 acres of public land in eastern Riverside County, California. The project has Continue Reading
Wind and solar power will dominate the electricity generation additions across the United States in 2020, accounting for an overwhelming 76 percent of all new capacity set to begin commercial Continue Reading
The Southeast US is likely to have strong solar capacity growth over the next decade, despite the winding down of federal subsidies, a new Fitch Solutions report issued Friday showed, Continue Reading
Earlier this month, many of the world’s leading experts and authorities on climate change and clean energy met at the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid to discuss Continue Reading
Scientists the world over have been trying to take a space-grade, super-efficient process for creating spray-on solar cells and make it economically feasible–on Earth. Everyone said it was impossible. Until Continue Reading
In mid-October government officials inaugurated the village of Id Mjahdi, located near the western city of Essaouira. The first of its kind in Africa, the village, which is capable of Continue Reading
Materials researchers at Estonia’s Tallinn University of Technology partially substituted copper with silver in solar cells’ absorber material to improve the efficiency of the devices. In a study published in Continue Reading
SEIA/Mackenzie project 13 GW of new solar for 2019 5.4 GW of new utility-scale announced in Texas Houston — Data released Thursday in the Solar Energy Industries Association third-quarter 2019 Continue Reading
Tariffs could cut private investment by $19 billion between 2017 and 2021 Trade group makes case ahead of Thursday ITC hearing New York — The Solar Energy Industries Association said Continue Reading
More than thirty years ago a giant tower was built in Manzanares, Spain, to produce electricity in a way that at the time must have seen even more eccentric than Continue Reading
“Every five days, the sun provides the Earth with as much energy as all proven supplies of oil, coal, and natural gas,” reports Singularity Hub in a powerful summation of Continue Reading
Heliogen, a company that is transforming sunlight to create and replace fuels, recently announced its launch and also said that it has—for the first time commercially—concentrated solar energy to exceed Continue Reading
Heliogen Heliogen believes it has the zero-carbon solar solution for the largest emitters. Heliogen, a clean energy company supported by Bill Gates and Patrick Soon-Shiong, this week claimed it has Continue Reading
A clean energy startup, backed by Bill Gates , says it has achieved for the first time commercially very high temperatures from solar energy that could replace the need for Continue Reading
In the eyes of many investors and climate activists, ExxonMobil is the worst of them all—it is nowhere near the recent climate pledges of its European rivals and it has Continue Reading
New solar photovoltaic (PV) installations are set to reach a record high this year, driven by improving markets in Europe and the United States and fast growth in India and Continue Reading
Solar modules prices in the United States have reversed in recent months the trend of steady declines of the past few years, as many U.S. solar companies are hoarding panels Continue Reading
America’s biggest solar power developers are stockpiling panels to lock in a 30% federal tax credit set to start phasing out next year, a strategy that could backfire if projects Continue Reading
“Concentrating solar power (CSP) plants,” explains the Solar Energy Industries Association, “use mirrors to concentrate the sun’s energy to drive traditional steam turbines or engines that create electricity. The thermal Continue Reading
The vast Sahara Desert in Africa is inhospitable to plants and animals, but quite suitable for movie sets such as Luke Skywalker’s desert home planet of Tatooine in Star Wars. Continue Reading
Canadian Solar Inc will supply solar energy to oil and gas pipeline company Energy Transfer from a solar project in the Permian in a first-ever dedicated solar contract that Dallas-based Continue Reading
Solar is one of the most forms of clean energy we have, in a time that emissions-free energy is more important than ever . If the global community has any Continue Reading
Egypt expects the 1.6 gigawatt solar park it is building in the south of the country to be operating at full capacity in 2019, the investment ministry said in a Continue Reading
Over the past year, several companies have outlined plans to build solar-and-storage systems around the world—from Australia to Arizona and to the heart of the Permian oil patch in West Continue Reading
Kirkbi, the family holding company behind toy maker Lego, said on Friday it had agreed to buy a majority stake in Enerparc Inc., a U.S. affiliate of German solar developer, Continue Reading
Last year, China sent a shockwave through the global solar market after it cut subsidies and stopped approving new solar installations in the middle of 2018, aiming to curb a Continue Reading
BP is planning to start powering some of its operations in the United States with electricity produced by solar farms, Bloomberg reports , quoting the chief executive of an affiliate, Continue Reading
Wind, solar forecast to top 5 TWh for first time Monday set 2019 high with peaks above 50 GW Forecast shows week 10 to average over 30 GW London — Continue Reading
Thanks to continuously declining costs, a hybrid renewable electricity generation system that combines wind, solar, and storage could become competitive with the cheapest fossil fuel electricity in the United States—combined-cycle Continue Reading
Borden County, Texas, is set to become the home of the world’s largest battery storage system in 2021. IP Juno, a unit of Intersect Power LLC, has recently outlined plans Continue Reading
The U.S. solar power industry workforce expanded by 150,000 jobs in the period 2010 to 2018, the latest census from the Solar Foundation found. Last year alone, however, the sector Continue Reading
Global spending on solar energy declined by almost a quarter last year to US$130.8 billion, mainly on the back of a regulatory policy overhaul in China that led to an Continue Reading
Solar makes sense. It’s cost efficient, it’s eco-friendly and has no carbon footprint, electricity is generated in the same grid where it is consumed, and the price of installing panels Continue Reading
This year has seen several major policy changes in renewable energy, especially in solar. China surprised everyone in June by announcing that it would not issue approvals for any new Continue Reading
