domestic photovoltaic News
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EasySolar to reduce soft costs of solar through its new designing tool
New and innovative tools are being developed to stimulate significant improvements in photovoltaic residential sector. Usually small-scale plants are the most difficult ones to sell due to “soft” costs. Hardware prices are fairly similar across countries, however non-hardware costs of solar like marketing, customer acquisition or installation labour are the main barrier of wide ...
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UK Domestic Solar Achieves Growing Rates of Return Despite Reductions in Subsidy
Since the introduction of the UK's Feed in Tariff scheme in 2010, the market has seen a series of reductions in tariff rates from 41.3p/kWh to 14.38p/kWh. Over the same period, the cost of installing solar panels has dropped significantly and electricity prices have risen. The net effect is that the rate of return available from domestic solar panels in the UK is at a near record high and ...
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Mass Production Solar Cell will Reach a Conversion Efficiency of 25%! The 5GW Production Base of HDT High-efficiency Heterojunction Solar Cell Invested by Jinrui Energy Started Construction
On February 19th, invested by Fujian Jinrui Energy Co., Ltd., the 5GW Production Base of HDT High-efficiency Solar Cells in Jinjiang City held a groundbreaking ceremony in Jinjiang City, which was one of main activities of Jinjiang City’s 2019 Centralized Contract Signing and Opening Activities. Liu Wenru, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Quanzhou Municipal Committee and ...
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SEI Solar Professionals Certificate Program
Solar Energy International is celebrating 21 years of renewable energy training by launching a new, comprehensive Solar Professionals Certificate Program. This program is an expansion of a previously successful Colorado-based program to fully serve a national and international audience of solar professionals. The intent of the SEI Solar Professionals Certificate Program is to go beyond a ...
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Global PV market to benefit from further growth as solar industry faces consolidation
The world solar PV market is heading towards further, exponential growth and will be profoundly altered by a further, substantial decline in module prices and a boom in internal Chinese demand. As regards production, on the other hand, a period of consolidation has started at a global level, with the expectation that weaker industrial players will exit the market. This will be the economic ...
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Lease option increases rooftop solar’s appeal, study says
Rooftop solar panels are attracting a new demographic of customers who are choosing to lease rather than buy, and enjoying the low upfront costs and immediate savings. The new third-party-lease business model lets homeowners save money the very first month, rather than breaking even a decade later after an initial investment of $10,000 or $20,000. Analysts with the U.S. Department of ...
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Eaton presents complete solution for safe operation of PV installations at InterSolar Europe
Eaton’s Electrical Sector will be offering visitors to next week’s Intersolar Europe event the chance to find out about its complete package for the safe operation of residential and commercial photovoltaic (PV) installations. On the stand, visitors will be able to see the full scope of Eaton’s PV products, such as its power inverters and its DC switch disconnector range which ...
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Solar Lab collaborative showcase on August 4
Tours and one-on-one meetings with scientists offered at NREL’s Process Development Integration Laboratory One-of-a-kind platforms that have the ability to bridge the gap between photovoltaic (PV) module and cell efficiencies are opening their stainless steel arms to industry, academia, stakeholders , and other entities on Aug. 4 at a Collaborative Showcase at the Process Development ...
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IDC Energy Insights MarketScape Evaluates North American Residential Solar Inverter Market
IDC Energy Insights announced today the availability of a new IDC MarketScape report designed to help installers of residential photovoltaic (PV) systems evaluate inverter technologies and make informed decisions about which vendors to avoid and which to engage. This comprehensive study, IDC MarketScape: North American Residential Solar Inverter Market, ...
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PV Industry in China Confronts Huge Potential Risk
“China Energy Sector Analysis” – a recent market research report published by RNCOS – has found, “Production of solar cells in China has shown an impressive growth over the last few years. Within just two-three years (roughly during 2003-2005), the country’s share in solar cell production, relative to global production, rose to 8% (from 1.07%), next only to Japan & Europe.” Growing further, ...
By RNCOS
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Efficient solar cell project landing Jinjiang
On January 17th, Jun Shi Electric (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd., Jin Bao Li (Quanzhou) Packaging Technology Co., Ltd. and Jinjiang Municipal People's Government signed an investment agreement, "HDT (high efficiency single crystal heterojunction) efficient solar cell project" Jinjiang Economic Development Zone Wuli Park, the project is also the first domestic independent intellectual property rights with ...
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Cost-Reduction Roadmap Outlines Two Pathways to Meet DOE Residential Solar Cost Target for 2030
Leveraging cost-reduction opportunities in the roof replacement or new construction markets for residential photovoltaic (PV) installations could help the United States meet the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) residential solar photovoltaic cost target by 2030, according to new research from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The NREL analysis ...
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SMA Introduces webconnect monitoring for residential and small commercial PV systems
SMA has unveiled a new solution that simplifies online monitoring of residential and small commercial photovoltaic systems. Webconnect enables direct data transmission from the inverter to SMA’s Sunny Portal, the world’s largest Web-based PV monitoring platform, through the system owner’s existing Internet connection, without the need for additional communications or ...
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National Strategic Emerging Industries Forum was Held at Yingli Green Energy`s Baoding Headquarters
Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) ("Yingli Green Energy" or the "Company"), a leading solar energy company and one of the world's largest vertically integrated photovoltaic ("PV") manufacturers, which markets its products under the brand "Yingli Solar", today announced that the National Strategic Emerging Industries Forum (the "Forum") was successfully held at Yingli's ...
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Trina Solar Announces the Establishment of China Sales and Project Development Offices in Chengdu and Urumqi
Trina Solar Limited (NYSE: TSL) ("Trina Solar" or the "Company"), a leading integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic (PV) products from the production of ingots, wafers and cells to the assembly of PV modules, today announced the establishment of two new Sales and Project Development Offices in Chengdu and Urumqi, China. The recent opening of these two strategically located Sales and ...
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Distributed Generation an Ongoing Threat to Utility Revenues and Hosting Capacity, Accenture Research Shows
Utilities face the greatest risk of lost revenues from distributed generation (DG), including residential solar photovoltaics and fuel cells, according to Accenture's Digitally Enabled Grid research, now in its fourth year. The survey of more than 100 utilities executives across more than 20 countries revealed that 58 percent of distribution utility executives believe DG will cause revenue ...
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A Bright Future for Solar Panels
The future of solar panels is looking even brighter. New research by Cambridge University scientists has led to the development of a more efficient solar cell. Currently, solar cells capture part of the sun's light. Much of the energy of the absorbed light is lost as heat, meaning a maximum of 34% of the sunlight is converted to electrical power. However, Cambridge scientists have made a ...
By Centrica
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Solar Technology Leader SMA America to Expand and Move Headquarters to Rocklin Corporate Center
ROCKLIN, Calif., June 24, 2010 – Don Little Group (DLG), a Northern California real estate investment and development advisory firm, has signed SMA America, LLC, the U.S.-based subsidiary of SMA Solar Technology AG, the world’s largest solar inverter manufacturer, to occupy 40,000 sq. ft. of space at Rocklin Corporate Center. Effective August 2010 for a seven-year term, SMA America ...
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Energy Department Announces More than 90% Achievement of 2020 SunShot Goal, Sets Sights on 2030 Affordability Targets
November 15, 2016 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy yesterday announced a commitment for its SunShot Initiative to cut the cost of solar-generated electricity by 50% between 2020 and 2030. This new target is a reflection of the SunShot Initiative's leadership in helping the industry reach more than 90% of its established 2020 goal in five years. ...
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2023 Year in Review: Advancing Puerto Rico's Grid Recovery and Modernization
Natural disasters in recent memory have posed significant challenges to Puerto Rico's electrical grid and the more than three million residents it serves. In September 2017, Hurricanes Irma and Maria caused most of the transmission and distribution system in Puerto Rico to collapse, leading to one of the longest blackouts in U.S. history and leaving residents in some parts of the territory ...
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