BEIJING, Aug 8 (Reuters) – China has hiked its 2015 target for solar power capacity by 40 percent to 21 gigawatts (GW), a government agency said on Wednesday, with falling costs and new regulations boosting growth in the sector. China, the world’s largest exporter of photovoltaic products and home to…
Germany remains top of the list with and accounts for more than 63% of the PV installations worldwide. Having said that, PV production volume is now dominated by manufacturing in Asia where China and Taiwan now account for about 74% of the world supply Photovoltaic (PV) industry revenues reached a…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Aug. 8, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — EMCORE Corporation (Nasdaq:EMKR), a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber optic and solar power markets, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement, subject to closing conditions, to consolidate its terrestrial concentrating photovoltaics (CPV) system…
TÜV Rheinland PTL, North America’s largest solar and photovoltaic (PV) testing company, is announcing that TÜV Rheinland and CURRENTA have developed new testing method based on DIN EN ISO 11925-2 in response to Germany’s plan to include PV modules and solar collectors in the German Building Rules list by the…
Session Solar, a leading solar distributor, specialist in solar project development, and manufacturer of Creotecc Solar Mounting Systems, today announced that its installation partner, Elite Solar of Chico, CA, has completed a 501 kW solar project for the Thermalito Water and Sewer District (TWSD) in Oroville, CA. The two individual…
Ukraine in 2012 will increase the capacity of solar power plants by 400 MW, to 600 MW, forecasts Macquarie Research on the basis of information from the European Photovoltaic Industry Association, Germany’s Solarbuzz and other sources. According to the analysts, Ukraine by 2016 will construct and commission new PV facilities…
The recent launch of the East of England Energy Zone, a unique public and private sector partnership programme created to highlight the region’s offer to the energy sector, is in response to the forecast £31 billion of investment over the next 8 years.
India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy released data showing that as of June's end, the country had installed 1,030.66 megawatts or over 1 gigawatt of solar photovoltaic power.
The global photovoltaic (PV) inverter market is predicted to grow by 23 percent in 2012 and hit almost 32 GW according to the 5th edition of IMS Research’s (recently acquired by IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS)) annual report on this industry. However, the report, The World Market for PV Inverters provided…
Company to deliver 52.5 megawatts of its Utility Ready PV inverter solutions in Southern California.
