Solar manufacturing has strategic importance in Europe. Here are five companies hoping to scale up and take advantage. Solar’s global shift from fringe to mainstream is a story Made in China. The likes of Jinko Solar, Trina Solar and Longi have dominated. They scaled first and fast — with more than a little help from […]
Time to think about recycling of end-of-life solar panels: experts
The growth of solar power generation in Vietnam has come alongside increasing concern over the disposal of end-of-life solar panels in the coming decades. Hanoi (VNS/VNA) : The growth of solar power generation in Vietnam has come alongside increasing concern over the disposal of end-of-life solar panels in the coming decades. According to Vietnam Electricity […]
Solar panels on homes in Northcote, one of Melbourne’s inner suburbs
CAIRNS, Australia : Australia is the world’s second-largest exporter of coal, which plays an outsize role in its economy and politics. But the country has also quietly become a renewable energy powerhouse. About one in four Australian homes have rooftop solar panels, a larger share than in any other major economy, and the rate of […]
Solar panels in Ramakkalmedu power plant blown away in gusty wind
The Agency for New and Renewable Energy Research and Technology (ANERT) initiated the new project at Anappara Hills in Ramakkalmedu near Nedumkandam. The Agency for New and Renewable Energy Research and Technology (ANERT) initiated the new project at Anappara Hills in Ramakkalmedu near Nedumkandam. However, the authorities stopped supervising it after 60 percent of the […]
Solar Panels Are Starting to Die. Will We be Able to Recycle the E-Waste?
Solar photovoltaic (PV) panels convert sunlight into energy and continue to play an essential role in the fight to stop the climate crisis. As the pioneering panels of the early 2000s near the end of their 30-year electronic lives, however, they are at risk of becoming the world’s next big wave of e-waste. International Renewable […]
Solar Power Developers Association (SPDA) for postponement of the imposition of BCD on Solar Modules to prevent severe slowdown in 100 GW plan
New Delhi: Solar Power Developers Association (SPDA), a national association representing India’s upcoming solar power generators and developers, said that the Government must reconsider its decision of imposing Basic Custom Duty on Solar cells and modules. The Safeguard Duty on cells and modules has been extended by a year recently, hence setting additional tariff barriers […]
DB Schenker’s new Singapore warehouse Red Lion to promote sustainable development and environmental protection with 1,440 pv solar panels
This summer, DB Schenker successfully started operation of a globally leading regional hub for automated high-speed logistics. Worth 101 million euros, the Red Lion warehouse in Singapore is the single largest investment in any site globally in Schenker’s corporate history. Strategically located in the Airport Logistics Park of Singapore (ALPS) at Changi Airport, the site […]
Chevron Is Installing Solar Panels — To Produce Oil More Cheaply
In California’s sun-drenched Kern Valley, Chevron Corp. has found a way to use one of the state’s clean-energy programs to cut the cost of pumping oil, to the chagrin of some environmentalists. Since April, solar panels have been powering oil pumps at Chevron’s Lost Hills 7,981 barrel-a-day oil field, according to the company. The 29-megawatt […]
The Pandemic Made Me Love My Solar Panels
During the coronavirus lockdown, the light at the end of the tunnel for my family was reflected from the rooftop of our old Austrian farmhouse. For those six long weeks, a record run of clear, cool, and sun-soaked days helped us cope with the litany of dark news that upended global markets at the […]
Delhi’s cleaner air during lockdown may have helped produce more solar power: Study
“That means that reductions in air pollution happened very suddenly, making them easier to detect,” explained study first author Ian Marius Peters from Helmholtz-Institut Erlangen-Nurnberg for Renewable Energies in Germany Boston: Based on data collected in Delhi, scientists report that the reduction in air pollution due to lockdown measures enforced in the country may have […]