The small Central American nation got rid of its armed forced 65 years ago, and the Ticos are a happier people for it. Now, Costa Rica – home to four and a half million people – is setting a new example in human values: for 255 days it has managed…

Gaithersburg, MD, November 26, 2015 — (World Of Photovoltaics.com)– The Global Alternative Photovoltaic Solar Cell Technologies market is estimated at $16.24 billion in 2014 and is expected to reach $38.25 billion by 2022 growing at a CAGR of 11.30% from 2014-2022. Increase in demand for energy, Environmental concerns, Low operating…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday announced it will build and operate a 100-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Ohio that will power its current and future cloud service data centres. The project, called the Amazon Wind Farm US Central, is expected to generate about 320,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of wind…

he United Arab Emirates is pushing ahead with renewable energy investments to lower its dependence on natural gas imports as declining solar prices make projects more feasible, analysts said. Last month, the UAE announced plans to invest USD 35 billion to diversify its energy resources for power generation. Energy Minister…

Eventually, the country’s solar energy agency would like to export its renewable power to countries in the Middle East and Europe. Next month, Morocco will be taking the first step toward becoming the world’s solar energy superpower. That’s when the first phase of a planned renewable energy plant will go…

Net-zero-energy (NZE) buildings were the focus at a recent conference in California, a state that has mandated that all new residential buildings achieve NZE status by 2020. In addition, all new commercial buildings must be net-zero energy by 2030, and 50 percent of the existing commercial structures must be retrofitted…

Wind energy could be the largest power supply source in the EU by 2030 as long as governments drive ambition in climate and energy policies, according to a new European Wind Energy Association report. The Aiming High report suggests that wind power has the potential to exceed gas and other…

The German inverter manufacturer becomes the first non-Japanese supplier to reach this milestone. Local presence in market since 2011 has delivered constant growth drivers. Germany’s SMA Solar Technology AG has become the first non-local inverter supplier to surpass 1 GW of inverter sales in Japan, the company has today confirmed.…

The €655 million Nobelwind offshore wind farm, located 45km off the Belgian coast at Ostend, has successfully achieved financial close. Mott MacDonald acted as lenders’ technical advisor1 during the project’s financing and will now monitor construction in an ongoing role. Nobelwind will be made up of 50 3.3MW Vestas wind…

The U.S. installed 1,393 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaics (PV) in the second quarter of 2015 to reach 22.7 gigawatts (GW) of total installed capacity, enough to power 4.6 million American homes. The residential market had another record quarter, with 70 percent growth year-over-year, while the utility-scale segment dominated again with 729 megawatts…