Tag Archives: panels
Suntech Update: Still Alive, but Badly Injured
Suntech, once the globe’s solar panel leader, recently declared insolvency. Yingli has replaced Suntech as the global solar panel leader. We are watching Suntech’s “ambiguous bankruptcy” as the company struggles to survive or transform. China’s Suntech is looking for more time to restate its full-year 2012 financials while revealing that its 2012 revenue halved to [...]
Out of this World: International Space Station Solar
Chris Hadfield, commander of the International Space Station (ISS), is noted for sharing some spectacular pictures of the place we call home. Browsing through his pictures – you can follow him at @Cmdr_Hadfield – you wouldn’t be hard pressed to find one recurring subject in his album: solar panels. Once upon a time, space stations and [...]
China: Getting Greener Across the Board
In recent years, China has been blasted for its failure to instate solar energy systems at an appropriate rate. It was easy for watch groups to condemn the nation since, after all, it has been the leading manufacturer of solar panels and other solar devices. The logic of the criticism was clear—if the country does [...]
How Many Solar Panels Do You Need?
How to calculate a quick, easy GUESStimate for sizing a PV system: “How much will it cost to power my XX,XXX square foot house?” “How many solar panels do I need to eliminate my electric bill?” We get questions like this every day from homeowners in the beginning stages of going solar. For all intensive [...]
In Focus: Solar Art
In the current issue of Artforum there is an article entitled, “Material Differences: Nikoloz Japardize On Georgian Architecture” and by Georgian they mean Eastern European Georgia and not dudes sodomizing other dudes while making them squeal like a pig Deliverance Georgia if you know what I mean. Since nothing exists in a vacuum the article delves [...]
Choosing the Right Solar Energy Installer in Costa Rica
The implementation of ICE’s Net Metering, Distributed Generation solar energy program has created a rapid increase for the demand of quality installed, solar energy systems amongst home and business owners in Costa Rica. Spurred by the country’s already high, rising cost of electricity, ICE’s progressive solar energy program encourages energy consumers to produce their own [...]
FUTUREWATCH: Solar Panels That Dissolve in Water
As the solar industry has been growing, so has its hazardous waste because of chemicals that are integral to making solar panels. But researchers have discovered a process that could change all this – at end of life, solar panels could simply be dissolved in water! That’s because they have found a way to replace [...]
Residential Solar: When Analyzed Properly, Returns are Great
One of the issues faced by consumers when considering going solar is that things are changing so frequently that it is hard for consumers to evaluate solar as an investment. Solar prices have fallen significantly over the past few years, but government and utility rebates and incentives have been in a perpetual state of change. These constant [...]
Are Solar PV Panels from China Kosher?
PV has grown dramatically since Bell Labs displayed the first demonstration unit in 1954. The International Energy Agency notes that the annual growth rate has averaged a mind-boggling 40% for the last two decades. Despite recently achieving the milestone of 100GW of worldwide installed capacity, growth continues – GlobalData estimates a 16.5% compound annual growth [...]