New Concentrating Solar Power Storage Material From Yara
Yara International is a Norway-based company focused on sustainable environmental and agricultural solutions. The company recently made an announcement about a breakthrough technology used in...
View Article100MW Concentrating Solar Power Plant Commissioned In Spain
Local and state government leaders joined Abengoa executives in commissioning the Castilla-La Mancha Solar Complex, which created more than 1,700 local jobs and sets the stage for clean energy output...
View ArticleWhy Solar PV Without Subsidies Is A No-Brainer (UBS Study Part 2)
This articles was originally published on Renew Economy. It has been reposted with full permission. There was a huge response to our article on Wednesday, summarising the UBS report on how a boom in...
View ArticleConergy Completes 14 Rooftop Solar Power Plants Without Subsidies At Sub-Grid...
Conergy, a photovoltaic solar provider, has reportedly installed 14 photovoltaic solar power plants without subsidies or feed-in tariffs (FiTs) in Spain. Conergy noted that the plants generate...
View ArticleSolar News Roundup
Some more solar news for your reading pleasure: Spain PV Tariff Did Not Increase 2012 Tariff Deficit Solar3D Moving Towards Manufacturing Prototype SolarCity Litigation Update City of Sacramento and...
View ArticleSpain Gets Reported To European Parliament By 100+ Spanish Bodies
The Spanish government has stepped on a few toes with its recent retroactive solar power incentive cuts… well, it has stepped on a lot of toes, and those toes are stepping back: Spain, in the midst of...
View ArticleUS Solar To Hit Grid Parity 2014–2017 (+ More Solar PV Charts, Sort Of…)
Following my article on a GBI Research report about the Global Energy Storage Market to 2020 (April 2013), below is a teaser on another GBI Research report — a “Solar Photovoltaics Power Market to...
View ArticleTop Solar Power Countries Per Capita & Per GDP (CleanTechnica Exclusive)
–> Update: Also see the new top solar power countries vs top US solar states rankings. Following up on my top solar power state rankings, below are rankings of the top solar power countries per...
View ArticleTop Solar States vs Top Solar Countries (CleanTechnica Exclusive)
Following our top solar states rankings and our top solar countries rankings, below are rankings that mix the two. The rankings are for total and new solar power capacity per capita as well as total...
View ArticleUnsubsidized Solar Power Project Totaling 250 MW Going Up In Spain
This article originally appeared on Solar Love. A completely unsubsidized 250 MW solar energy project is currently being developed in the north-western region of Cádiz, Spain — near the town of...
View ArticleSpain Solar Enthusiasts And Workers “Turn Themselves In” At Spanish Prison
This article was first published on Solar Love. Eurosolar and the local energy cooperative Som Energia organized a protest this week at a Modelo prison in Barcelona regarding Spanish solar policies....
View ArticleSolar Energy & Wind Energy Buffet
Being on a whirlwind work trip around Ukraine for about one week, I got way behind on my normal news routine and cleantech buffets. Apologies. To catch up, I’m posting 3 (yes, 3!) cleantech buffets...
View ArticleItaly, Spain, & Germany Hit Commercial Solar Grid Parity In 2013
We’ve been writing “grid parity is coming,” “grid parity is coming,” “grid parity is coming,” for so long that it’s sometimes surprising when new regions cross over to grid parity. Some of the latest...
View ArticleWorld Solar Power Capacity Increased 35% In 2013 (Charts)
With about 37,007 megawatts (MW) of solar PV power installed in 2013, world solar PV power capacity increased about 35% to 136,697 MW. Whereas Europe had dominated annual growth for years up until 2013...
View ArticleCan REthinking Power Generation Create A Renewable Energy Future?
Plummeting renewable energy prices mean we still have time to prevent dangerous climate change, but it's crunch time for action, according to a new report Can REthinking Power Generation Create A...
View ArticleTop Solar Charts From Huge IEA Solar PV Report
The newest edition of the Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme report was recently released by the IEA — detailing a huge quantity of different aspects of the global solar PV market as well as country-...
View ArticleSupreme Court In Spain Open To FIT-Cut Lawsuit
Solar Love. The Supreme Court in Spain — the Tribunal Supremo — has reportedly invited the Unión Española Fotovoltaica (UNEF) to a meeting to discuss the organization’s recent legal challenge to the...
View ArticleAustralia Falls Out Of The Top 15 Utility-Scale Solar Countries
RenewEconomy. Sophie Vorrath. The global utility-scale solar market has clocked its fifth consecutive year of record growth, with newly released data showing total capacity has now reached 30.3GW, up...
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Solar Policy In Spain Still Might Be Changed
In March of 2015, Spain produced about 47% of its electricity from renewable energy sources – mostly from wind power and hydroelectric. Solar only contributed a small amount, but that is not because...
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Spain Awards 4 Gigawatts Solar & 1 Gigawatt Wind In Renewables Auction
Spain's energy ministry announced this week the full list of winners from its most recent renewables auction, which awarded a total of 5 gigawatts (GW) of capacity. The split ended up 4 GW for solar...
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$571-Million Solar Power Plant Planned for Spain
In the western region of Spain called Extremadura, a $571-million 400 MW photovoltaic plant is being planned. Construction could begin in 2014 and should be completed in one year. Other than the...
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Top Solar Power Countries (Per Capita, Per GDP, Per TWh of Electricity...
What are the top countries in the world for new and total installed solar power? Or for solar power per capita? Or per GDP? Or per electricity production? Check out this post for the answers.
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Spain and America Dominate Solar Thermal Market
Spain and the United States currently dominate the global solar thermal market thanks to the continued soaring of fossil fuels and supporting government policies, according to a new report by GBI...
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Som Energia — Spain’s Only Renewable Energy Cooperative Now Boasts 3500 Members
Spain at last has its own renewable energy cooperative — Som Energia — founded in Girona in the country’s Catalonia region. The group gets involved in profitable renewable energy projects to supply...
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