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WOW: 1% of Land Covered With Solar Could Power The World
Solar PV can meet 100% of electricity demand on just 1% of land by 2050, says the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). In 2010, they produced a report showing that a combination of energy efficiency and renewable energy can supply the world’s energy by 2050. But how much land would that take to make that huge jump feasible? And how would [...]
The 2013 World Future Energy Summit
First Solar is pleased to be a platinum sponsor and exhibitor at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) taking place in Abu Dhabi January 15-17. WFES is an exciting platform to demonstrate First Solar’s capabilities and build lasting relationships in a region that is rapidly embracing the full potential of clean energy. At the forefront of [...]
Grid Parity in the U.S: There’s A Map for That
With solar prices dropping in the U.S. and around the world, John Farrell noticed that the German solar boom was not flagging despite the slow, steady reduction in its subsidy. “The trajectory looked very good for solar to be something that would work, not only from a distributed energy and ownership standpoint, but it could [...]
Review: The 2012 Solar PV Industry
The difficulties that the global solar industry experienced in 2012 were both clear and expected. Continuing excess solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing capacity spurred a collapse in prices across the PV value chain, creating consistently negative margins and negative profitability for upstream PV manufacturers. This led to a large number of bankruptcies, insolvencies and acquisitions, but [...]
Latin America: The New Solar Hotbed?
High electricity costs (both wholesale and retail), rumors of government tenders, and significant price declines of photovoltaic equipment have attracted a rush of solar development in Latin America and the Caribbean. At the start of 2013, more than 10 gigawatts of large-scale projects have been announced in the region, but just 91 megawatts are currently [...]
Volkswagen’s Passat: Built with Solar
Volkswagen started getting power from the Volkswagen Chattanooga Solar Park yesterday, the biggest solar system installed by an automaker in the US. The Passat sedan will now be made using solar in the greenest auto manufacturing plant in the world, the only one to earn LEED-Platinum. It is also Tennessee’s biggest solar system. 33,600 solar panels made by [...]
U.S Army Announces Biggest Solar Project Yet
While the US government signed a contract for its biggest wind farm, the US Army dedicated its biggest solar PV project, which is also the world’s largest low concentration photovoltaic solar plant. The 4.1 megawatt solar farm is operating at Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Combined with a 375 kilowatt solar carport, solar will still only supply [...]
Will PV Module Prices Finally Stabilize?
Solar PV revenues and module prices are predicted to slightly stabilize in the second half of 2013 but not after more declines over the next several months, according to a market research report released this week from IHS. A new solar PV module shipment record of 11GW was reached in the fourth quarter according to [...]
Japan: The Land Of The Rising Sun?
So it seems like Japan is going to try and accomplish what former Prime Minister Koreyiko Takahasi was unable to achieve back in the 1930′s with his Keynesian experiment. Regardless of how current Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s efforts at reflation play out I do hope that he doesn’t meet the same fate as Mr. Takahasi who was [...]