Solar Energy News

Berlin-based Valentin Software GmbH has updated its software for designing photovoltaic plants to include new features. The new version of the PV*SOL premium and PV*SOL software now makes it possible to take electric cars into consideration when calculating your own consumption. In the new version, Valentin Software has integrated additional, flexible electricity tariff models. The new software ...

Jul. 27, 2017

By Valentin Software GmbH

Advanced Conferences & Meetings (ACM) is launching the Utility Scale Solar Summit on 14-15 November 2017 in Beirut, which will focus on delivering critical utility-scale solar PV projects in the region.  The Utility Scale Solar Summit will explore different solar and wind solutions to encourage renewable energy ...

Jul. 20, 2017

By Advanced Conferences & Meetings FZ-LLC

International technology Group ANDRITZ has acquired a 50.1% stake in the British laser company Powerlase Photonics Ltd. Powerlase specializes in the manufacture of picosecond and nanosecond high-energy, diode-pumped, solid-state lasers. The high-tech company, with headquarters in Crawley, UK and a subsidiary in Orlando, USA, supplies international customers from the photovoltaic, ...

Jun. 14, 2017

By ANDRITZ AG

DNV GL, the world’s largest resource of independent energy experts and certification body, has released its third annual PV Module Reliability Scorecard report, presenting the most complete publicly-available comparison of PV module reliability test results. Although the dramatic module price drop of recent years has helped to accelerate PV industry growth, concerns over cost reduction at ...

Jun. 1, 2017

By DNV GL - Software

Axetris will now include optical output in addition to temperature on our data sheets. This creates tangible added value for our customers. Before delivery to our customers, the drift behavior of every source is measured during final testing. First, cold resistance for each source is determined. Depending on the results of this test, drive power for each source is adjusted individually. This ...

Apr. 7, 2017

By Axetris Ag

A new federal study seeking to get beyond “the hype” on residential energy storage and set baseline costs puts the price of including a home battery with a solar photovoltaic (PV) installation at $12,000 to $14,000. “There has been a lot interest recently and a lot of hype,” said Kristen Ardani, principal author of the study and an analyst at the Golden, Colorado-based ...

Apr. 4, 2017

By Electric Utility Consultants, Inc. (EUCI)

Natcore Technology Inc. (TSX-V: NXT; OTCQB: NTCXF; Frankfurt: 8NT) has signed a joint development agreement with Coveme spa, the Italian company that is a leading innovator in the manufacture and conversion of polyester films. Natcore has recently developed the Natcore Foil Cell, which combines a revolutionary laser process with a novel ...

Apr. 4, 2017

By Natcore Technology, Inc.

Enel S.p.A. (“Enel”), through its Mexican renewable subsidiary Enel Green Power México (“EGPM”), has started construction works at its 754 MW1 Villanueva solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in Viesca, Coahuila State, which is the largest PV facility under construction in the Americas and Enel’s largest solar project worldwide. The construction works were ...

Mar. 29, 2017

By Enel Green Power SpA

Over 1250 abstracts have been received for the Call for Papers of the 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 25 - 29 September 2017. Arno Smets, General Chairman of the upcoming EU PVSEC 2017 commented, “I am very happy with the large number of abstracts submitted. The submissions demonstrate that the ...

Mar. 3, 2017

By WIP - Renewable Energies

The World Wind Energy Association WWEA and Intersolar Europe are pleased to invite the small and medium wind stakeholders as well as the solar PV and energy storage industry to participate in the World Small Wind Conference WSWC2017, taking place in Munich/Germany on 1 and 2 June 2017, in parallel with the Intersolar Europe exhibition 2017 (31 May ...

Feb. 2, 2017

By World Wind Energy Association (WWEA)

The United States solar market just shattered all previous quarterly solar photovoltaic (PV) installation records. According to GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association's (SEIA) Q4 2016 U.S. Solar Market Insight report, 4,143 megawatts (MW) of solar PV were installed in the U.S. in the third quarter of the year, a rate of one MW every 32 minutes. That ...

Dec. 14, 2016

By Smart Grid Observer

The experts of the PV solar community will meet in Amsterdam to discuss new concepts, trends and developments in science and industry. The EU PVSEC provides the most inspiring platform for dialogue and information exchange across the world. The next European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC 2017), the leading international conference in photovoltaics, will be held in ...

Nov. 8, 2016

By WIP - Renewable Energies

Gamesa has achieved a new milestone in the development of its offgrid technology with the installation and start-up of a lithium battery for the storage of power at the prototype installed by the company in La Muela (Aragon). Gamesa's offgrid system, inaugurated last May, enables power supply to regions without grid access. The prototype is pioneering on account of its bundling of four sources of ...

Nov. 4, 2016

By Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy

October 17, 2016 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) today (10/14) released new ...

Oct. 17, 2016

By Smart Grid Observer

Stion Corporation is proud to announce their “Simply Better” CIGS module has successfully passed the ‘Thresher’ test performed at the Renewable Energy Test Center (RETC), in Fremont, CA. The Thresher test is intended to simulate at least 25 years of real world exposure to evaluate long term durability and performance. Harsh conditions induced over a six month period expose ...

Sep. 24, 2016

By Stion

The next European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC 2017), the leading international Conference in photovoltaics, will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 25 - 29 September 2017. EU PVSEC maintains European mobility. In order to meet its long-term European aspect and character, EU PVSEC sticks ...

Sep. 15, 2016

By WIP - Renewable Energies

With what must be one of the biggest air-conditioning bills in the emirate, the company behind Dubai’s indoor ski slope is going green. Majid Al Futtaim (MAF), the conglomerate that built Mall of the Emirates, aims to produce 5 per cent of its total energy in the next two years using solar photovoltaic technology. The group runs 19 shopping malls in the region including Dubai’s Mall ...

Sep. 5, 2016

By GreenEmirates

Scottish-based AES Solar have been selected as a Panasonic Solar Premium Installer for Morayshire, The Highlands & North-East Scotland. Panasonic’s solar photovoltaic (PV) modules, including their highly efficient, heterojunction PV modules, will now be available through AES Solar. Daniel Roca, Senior Business Development Manager at Panasonic Eco Solutions Europe said: “Panasonic ...

Jun. 24, 2016

By AES Ltd

Analysts at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have used detailed light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data for 128 cities nationwide, along with improved data analysis methods and simulation tools, to update its estimate of total U.S. technical potential for rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems. The analysis reveals a technical potential of 1,118 gigawatts (GW) of ...

Mar. 24, 2016

By National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Working with partners around the world, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have completed five years of work toward helping establish an international quality standard for manufacturing photovoltaic (PV) modules. PV manufacturers will use the new standard to increase the level of confidence investors, utilities, and consumers have ...

Feb. 8, 2016

By National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)