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.
Thailand Solar PV 2015 Update
By
Thomas Chrometzka, Giz
According to the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) there were 1,520 MW of free-field installations (solar farms) and approximately 82 MW of solar rooftop installed combining for a total of 1,601.36 MW.
Ontario: A Lesson In Solar From A Northern Neighbor
By
John Farrell
Based on population, Ontario would be the 5th largest state if it were part of the U.S., but its installed solar capacity, 1,500 MW would rank it 3rd.
Solar bigger than nuclear for the first time in California
By
Bernard Chabot
New renewables–wind, solar, biomass, biogas, and geothermal– generated 2.6 times more electricity than nuclear in August 2015.
The US Federal Solar Tax Credit Extension: Can We Win if We Lose?
By
John Farrell
But the use of tax credits always had its drawbacks. Many potential solar owners were ineligible because they lacked sufficient tax liability (40% of Americans still don’t have enough annual tax liability to absorb it in one year), including cities, counties, and non-profit organizations.
You can now get ‘wind turbine syndrome’ from solar panels and batteries
By
Ketan Joshi
As I’ve expected for some time, there’s a new effort to create and propagate health fears around solar power, given the rapid decrease in costs, and the rising threat it poses to incumbent generators like coal and gas. It’s going to take precisely the same shape as the campaign around wind farms, and unless we think deeply about the necessary ingredients for this type of techno-panic to flourish, it’s going to last just as long, and cause just as much harm.
Scotland ‘actively seeking to encourage greater deployment of solar’
By
Peter Bennett
Despite the UK government making moves to scale back the level of support given to solar technology, Scotland remains committed to boosting the technology’s deployment according to its Energy Minister.
Solar twice as expensive in US as in Germany
By
Craig Morris
Here, we see that the price of a completely installed solar array has been and continues to be considerably cheaper in Germany than in the US. The gap seems to have been around two dollars all along. Now that the price in Germany has fallen to two dollars, solar is now twice as expensive in the US as it is in Germany.
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
By
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.
