Tag Archives: reports
L.A Dreaming? 20% Rooftop Solar By 2020
With sweeping views of LA’s ample solar friendly rooftop space, elected officials, business, health and environmental groups assembled on the top floor of LA City Hall to launch an unprecedented solar campaign. The goal? To get 20% of LA’s power from rooftop solar by 2020. This week’s press announcement highlighted a new report called Solar in the Southland, [...]
UK Solar Panel Quality: Higher than Expected
Several new pieces of research show the quality of solar panels in the UK is high. Higher than expected. 98% of panels “run to spec” according to Dr Alastair Buckley of the Sheffield Solar Farm Project. “They do what they say on the tin,” he says, using a popular British expression. In other words, ‘they [...]
The 10 Biggest U.S PV Plants
The world’s largest PV solar farm is the the massive Agua Caliente deployment in Yuma County, Arizona. First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR), the developer and panel supplier at Agua Caliente, just announced that the project has hit a peak generating capacity of 250 megawatts AC and is online and connected to the electrical grid. The project [...]
Even With Lower Incentives, German Solar Market Grows
A dramatic shift in the German solar market hasn’t slowed its growth. The world’s leading solar market skyrocketed because of a progressive feed-in-tariff program that paid solar system owners more for the power they produced than the retail power rate. The program has changed and the tariff has slipped below the retail rate. But home [...]
Gehrlicher Solar Builds Solar Park in Record Time
In just two and a half months, Gehrlicher Solar completed its Perleberg solar park on the grounds of the former Perleberg military airport in Brandenburg, Germany. The solar system has a nominal capacity of 35 MWp. The farm is expected to produce 33 million kilowatt hours of clean solar energy per year, which is enough [...]
The Insane Growth of the Chinese Solar Market
China’s solar market is undergoing a change that sees much more photovoltaics being installed for on-site generation purposes. The growth in the segment, now the largest segment of China’s photovoltaics market, comes as the number of the country’s overall solar installations are increasing sharply, perhaps slightly reducing pressure for lower prices for PV internationally. The [...]
The Future of Chinese Solar Companies
The whole solar panel industry has been in a tailspin as the massive solar glut takes toll of the whole industry. The industry downturn which started in 2011 has not stopped as solar panel prices have crashed to new all time lows with European demand pull in ending and inventories building up. While many of [...]
China Strikes Back Against U.S Energy Subsidies
The Global Green War had started with the US imposing duties on imports of Chinese made solar panels and cells. Subsequently dumping charges were also imposed on wind energy equipment made in China as well. China has not been able to do much against these duties as it exports almost 80-90% of its solar products. [...]
1 Gigawatt of Solar to the Americas
What is a gigawatt? One billion (109) watts. That’s the total capacity of all the solar panels Suntech has now delivered to customers throughout North and South America. That’s no small amount of energy: One gigawatt of solar panels is enough to power about 113,000 U.S. homes a year! We passed the 1 GW milestone [...]
SunPower Announces $325M in Residential Solar Projects from Citi and Credit Suisse
In a remarkably clear trend, SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWR) just announced $325 million in new commitments for residential solar lease projects from Citi and Credit Suisse. SunPower joins in the recent cash infusions from banks for firms such as SolarCity, SunRun, OneRoof, Clean Power Finance, and Borrego Solar totaling more than $600 million in what is [...]
GTM Research to Unveil New Solar Reports
Through its collaboration with the Solar Energy Industries Association(SEIA), GTM Research has created an unparalleled analysis of the U.S.solar industry in a report series titled U.S. SolarInsight.Together, SEIA and GTM Research will be releasing the first report fromthis partnership at Solar Power International, October 12-14, 2010 atthe Los Angeles Convention Center. The entire GTM Research [...]
The 18 Most Common Solar Questions Homeowners Ask
I went around and asked 18 employees to give me a question that they answer every single day with solar customers. Together as a company we probably answer these questions thousands of times a week, so I figured I’d bang out all the questions in individual helpful videos with straight-shooting answers. Here they are: 1. [...]