SOLAR ENERGY NEWS HABERLERİ

Over the past decade, prices for solar panels and wind farms have reached all-time lows. As the saying goes though, the wind isn’t always blowing and the sun isn’t always shining. The question of how to “firm” renewables — that is, ensuring... 

Despite the positive renewable energy investment trends over the past decade, annual investments in renewable energy power alone need to double until 2050 to meet climate goals. To allocate enough capital to drive the world’s transition to a low-carbon... 

Energy storage is set to take an increasingly central role in the global economy, growing almost tenfold over the next decade and a half, new research suggests. The total energy storage market is expected to grow to $546 billion in annual revenue by 2035,... 

California’s Antelope Valley sits at the edge of the Mojave Desert. In recent years, the desert has seen a farming boom, solar farming that is. Antelope Valley is home to America’s largest solar facility, Solar Star, a sprawling 3200-acre, 579-megawatt... 

When a financial crisis begins to unfold, it’s hard to assess the impact until well after the fact. The dot-com crash that started in 2000 and the subprime mortgage crisis that started in 2007 played out over several years. The S&P 500 recorded... 

Greece has announced plans to install two PV projects at mining sites. The facilities are part of the national utility’s new strategy and in line with the country’s efforts to phase out coal. Greek national electric utility Public Power Corp (PPC)... 

The company behind the concept is planning to install the panels across the roofs of industrial buildings. Labelled as a ‘solar fabric’, this development will be seen across warehouses and distribution centres. Beyond the sheets, Solivus also has... 

Growing climate change fears and falling costs will drive the uptake of clean technologies this year. What does 2020 hold for the low-carbon economy? Every year, the clean energy analysts at BloombergNEF predict what will happen in energy, transport,... 

Iberdrola SA is working to build what it says will be Europe’s largest solar farm at a cost of 300 million euros ($337 million). The Spanish utility has started the process with the country’s Ecological Transition ministry to build a 590-megawatt... 

The global solar photovoltaic (PV) services market is expected to record a 16% growth between 2019 and 2030, according to Technavio. The research firm forecasts revenue generation within the market to reach $10.81 billion. The year over year growth rate... 

The future of solar panels may lie in coffee. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Solargiga Energy in China recently published the results of research in which they saw improved thermal stability of perovskite solar cells... 

After nearly two decades of strong annual growth, renewables around the world added as much net capacity in 2018 as they did in 2017, an unexpected flattening of growth trends that raises concerns about meeting long-term climate goals. Last year was the...