News & Articles on Solar Energy
While I have primarily worked with wind energy, I have long been a proponent of renewable energy in the broadest sense. This includes solar energy. My work in Canada, especially Ontario, stressed inclusion of solar energy because it had been previously overlooked. At one time Ontario was one of the leading jurisdictions in North America developing solar photovoltaics due in part to the programs I and others pushed. The political winds changed and these policies were abandoned and with it Ontario’s progress toward a renewable energy future.
Japan to draft guidelines for disposal of solar, wind power facilities
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The industry ministry have decided to draft guidelines on how to dispose of and recycle decommissioned solar and wind power facilities.
IBT: Canada Slaps Preliminary Anti-Dumping Tariffs On Chinese Solar PV Products: Australia’s Dumping Probe Taking Time
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Kalyan Kumar
Some Chinese Photo Voltaic modules producers have come at the receiving end of Canadian International Trade Tribunal, which slapped them preliminary anti-dumping and anti-subsidization tariffs.
Solar Lease or PPA? Buyer beware
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Tosh Szatow
On the surface, the solar lease or a solar PPA is bright and shiny, guaranteed to make you smile and soften those pesky energy bills and emissions. But buyer beware, every time we have looked under the hood, all is not as it seems.
Where’s the Solar? How Los Angeles Can Utilize All Those Empty Rooftops
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Tam Hunt
LA’s Department of Water & Power (LADWP), the biggest public utility in the country, has had a feed-in tariff program for a couple of years, with a goal of installing 150 megawatts of solar. However, the current program is coming to an end in early 2015 and LADWP is now contemplating the next phase of this important program. The time is now for some serious thinking about how to solarize LA.
SolarServer: PV in the UK: Over 125,000 homes went solar in 2014, overall installations reached 700 MW
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“These latest statistics show that the FiT solar PV market is seeing healthy growth with plenty of solar going up on domestic and commercial roofs as well as small solar farms,” comments David Pickup, the Solar Trade Association’s Business Analyst.
Renewables International: The Energiewende is not just solar
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Craig Morris
The Pew Charitable Trust makes the same mistake, essentially conflating throwing money at a problem with policy support. The main purpose of feed-in tariffs (offered for all renewable electricity, not just solar) was to bring down the cost. By calling FITs subsidies, the article falls into a trap – goal attainment (low solar prices) is now portrayed as a reduction of support.
The Hammelburg Story–The Beginning of Solar FITs
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Karl-friedrich Lenz
At the time, Hans-Josef Fell had high hopes. He thought in 1996 that Germany might be able to reach a whopping 80 MW a year if that principle of a feed-in tariff was extended to the whole country.
Investing in Solar Bonds with SolarShare
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Tim Conneally
We recently looked at Zooshare, an early-stage biogas cooperative selling bonds to get its facilities up and running to sell energy into the Ontario grid. Today, we’re going to look at a Toronto co-op selling bonds to let investors cash in on the feed-in-tariff solar boom. It’s called SolarShare.
Solar Power in Turkey Takes its First Steps on the World Stage
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Ozan Karaduman
Various legislative efforts have been made to encourage investors to make investments in power plants using renewable energy resources. The most important of these efforts has been the feed-in tariff (FIT) mechanism.
