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Solar Price Hits All-Time Low In Australia
The Solar Choice Price Index provides a monthly update of the cost of solar across Australia. It’s a very useful tool for keeping up to date with Australia solar price trends, which are some of the...
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US Solar Power Growth Strong
I just published this article yesterday on CleanTechnica. All in all, it looks like Chinese solar PV duties haven’t had too much effect on the growth of solar power in the US. The 3rd quarter was a...
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Solar & Wind Energy Overview
Here are parts 1 and 2 of a presentation I recently gave to a class of renewable energy graduate students (reposted from CleanTechnica): Renewable Energy Big Pic: Part 1 (Including 34 Charts &...
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Belgian Solar Up To 3% Of Power Consumption, 14% Of Housing Consumption
Belgium, like many other countries across the world, just saw another solid year of solar power growth. 2012 didn’t come close to its record solar growth in 2011, and it was just a bit shy of the 528...
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Global Solar PV Power Capacity Rose To 101 GW In 2012
Rooftop solar panels in Germany. Image Credit: R. Engelhardt Solar photovoltaic (PV) power had another great year in 2012, increasing by about 30 GW (about the same as in 2011). As noted above, the...
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German Solar PV Price Down To €1.52 Per Watt
German solar PV power prices continue to fall. According to the latest data, the price of solar power for solar power plants with up to 100 kW of capacity has dropped to €1.52 per watt (or $2.03 per...
View ArticleSolar Facts (VIDEO)
Here are some fun solar numbers from the good folks at Clean Power Research: Solar Facts (VIDEO) was originally published on: Solar Love! The post Solar Facts (VIDEO) appeared first on Solar Love!.
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39% Of California EV Owners Have Solar, 17% More Planning It Within 1 Year...
A recent survey by the California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) found that 39% of plug-in electric vehicle owners in California owned solar panel systems, and another 17% were planning to go...
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Japanese Banks Project Japanese Solar Market To Be Worth $19 Billion In Next...
Japan’s relatively new feed-in tariff for solar power has been spurring good solar power growth. Furthermore, it has set the environment needed for the market to mature. With the market maturing, the...
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Shell Bullish On Solar Despite Dropping Solar (But Much More In Its New...
The solar manufacturing industry is now a highly competitive industry. Solar module companies that can’t compete are dropping like icicles on a warm spring day. Shell dropped out of the solar module...
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Greece Adds 300 MW Of Solar PV In January (More Than Germany), Bill Looks To...
Pretty flowers in Greece, with solar panels on rooftop in background. Image Credit: Aggathopos (some rights reserved)The latest figures from Greece indicate that the country installed 300 MW of solar...
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Solar To Be #2 Source Of New Power In 2013
In an on-air Google Hangout today, Recurrent Energy CEO and Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA) Chairman Arno Harris noted that more solar power capacity is projected to be installed in 2013 than...
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34.5 GW Of Solar In 2013, Mercom Capital Projects
I’ve seen two or three projections for new solar power capacity in 2013. They seem to be hovering between 30 GW and 35 GW. Mercom Capital Group is reportedly projecting 34.5 GW. Former Maldives...
View ArticleSolar In Japan Picking Up Steam, Japan Could Be #2 Solar Market In 2013
Trailing only China, IMS Research predicts that Japan will be the second-largest solar market in the world in 2013 (in terms of total installed solar power). Since the country’s ¥42/kWh solar feed-in...
View ArticleFirst Solar — #1 Solar Developer, #2 Solar Module Manufacturer
US-based First Solar seems to have done a pretty good job naming itself. It is the #1 solar developer in the world (based on March 2013 data), the #1 solar EPC contractor in the world (same data...
View ArticleGermany Added 211 MW Of Solar PV In February
211 MW of new solar photovoltaic capacity were installed in Germany in February. The new capacity was spread out amongst more than 8,300 different systems, the largest of which was a new solar park in...
View ArticleGlobal Solar PV Capacity Close To (Or Over) 100 GW
Total global solar photovoltaic capacity is fast approaching the 100 gigawatt (100,000 megawatt) milestone, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency. The report notes that even...
View Article10 Top Solar Module Manufacturers In 2012 (IHS Report)
Market research firm IHS has released a report on the top solar module manufacturers of 2012. Regular readers may think this sounds familiar. If so, it’s probably because you’re remembering the...
View ArticleEEG Sees Record €970 Million Surplus In March
For anyone not closely following the renewable energy story in Germany, you may not know what EEG stands for. EEG is the acronym for Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz, which means German Renewable Energy...
View Article220,000 MW Of Distributed Solar Power By 2018 (Navigant Research Report)
Another day, another market research report is out (well, hundreds probably came out today). As always, though, it’s hard to pass up one on solar power. And the one today is even on distributed solar...
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