EPIA President Winfried Hoffmann said that in sun-bathed southern Italy investments in photovoltaics would next year start to compete with electricity from the national power grid. But problems with the administrative burden and difficulties connecting to the grid are holding the industry back. If given sufficient initial support, photovoltaic would…
The new, green home, off-grid and powered by sustainable energy, can be as beautiful, comfortable and convenient as its owner’s desire. Anyone who doubts that, or who would like to see what a green home can be, is invited to participate in the Summer Solstice Green Home Tour sponsored by…
Against the backdrop of current developments within the photovoltaic markets, including the introduction of a cap in Spain, reduction of the feed-in tariff in Germany, the largest PV market, as well as the increasing module surplus, market participants are searching for alternatives for the future. A great deal of focus…
The Department of Energy has estimated that BIPV technology could potentially generate 50% of the electrical needs of the U.S. and other developed countries, and the DOE’s Solar America Initiative has set the goal of making solar cost-competitive with grid electricity by 2015. In this continuing effort the Department of…
If you wanted to train to be a solar photovoltaic panel installer at the absolute finest institution nationwide—the Ivy League school of solar installation training—where would you go to learn? That question, posed to industry experts at the recent PV America trade show, generated a unanimous response: The North American…
When it comes to energy storage, solar panels have it easy. Homeowners with PV panels on their roofs effectively store power by shuttling electricity generated in the daytime onto the grid, said Jane Davidson, a professor at the University of Minnesota and the director of the Solar Energy Laboratory there,…
Relatively cheap valuations and government incentives should help shares of companies that install solar panels on customers’ roofs outperform investments in producers of photovoltaic cells, analysts said. The German solar market is estimated to become the world’s biggest in 2009, with the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) forecasting up to…
NV Energy and American Capital Energy (ACE) announced a long-term power purchase agreement to divvy the sales of energy produced from 20MW (DC) solar power plant that to be constructed by mid-2010 near Searchlight, Nevada, 55 miles south of Las Vegas. Other terms of the power purchase agreement were not…
Welcome Intersolar North America is the most diverse international business-to-business trade show in the United States for the global solar industry. As the only solar exhibition in North America dedicated to recruiting companies across the solar supply chain from around the world, Intersolar helps the industry improve global supply, distribution,…
The El Paso utility has made a 20-year agreement with NRG Energy, a New Jersey power-generating company, to buy all of the power from the 92-megawatt solar power plant, which NRG will build and operate.That’s enough power to supply about 30,000 homes, El Paso Electric reported. Earlier, NRG said the…
