Solar Panel Installation

Borrego Solar awarded contract to supply US Department of Defence – PV

Aaron — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:26:33 +0000

The American General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded Borrego Solar Systems a contract that allows it to provide its solar installation services to federal agencies. The designer, installer, financier of grid-tied solar PV claims its installations are already in demand …

Cheap Natural Gas Won’t Kill Renewable Energy growth (3 Reasons Why)

Aaron — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:26:30 +0000

I’ll be the first to admit that cheap natural gas prices are one of the biggest short-term threats to deployment of renewable energy in the U.S. today. With a glut of gas dropping prices to historic lows, the competitiveness …

Solar energy still makes sense for poultry sector

Aaron — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:26:27 +0000

Investing in solar PV installations is a “no-brainer” for poultry producers, despite ongoing cuts in government support, according to NFU chief renewables adviser Jonathan Scurlock. “How would you like to invest about £1m in solar energy and get a return …

SmartTrak deploys tracking system for solar PV plants

Aaron — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:25:58 +0000

SmartTrak Solar, a manufacturer of solar tracking systems, has announced that it has successfully installed their indigenously developed tracking system for a grid connected project located near Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh. It is in discussions with several other developers to …

Europe Solar Utility sells 3.7MW of UK PV systems

Aaron — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:24:28 +0000

Europe Solar Utility sells 3.7MW of UK PV systems 21 Feb 2012 Photovoltaic (PV) project developer Europe Solar Utility (ESU) has completed the sale of 3.7MW of PV assets to Thames Water. The three facilities are located on land near …

Wind power and solar energy in Pakistan

Aaron — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:24:27 +0000

Samir Hoodbhoy was privileged to get his undergraduate education at Harvard University in the early ’60s when John F. Kennedy was President of the USA and the post World War II mindset was for reconstruction and addressing wrongs within the …

Eden Project installs UK’s first employee-owned solar plant

Aaron — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:24:24 +0000

A new 50 kilowatt PV array at the Eden Project has just become the UK’s first employee owned renewables installation. Ebico, the Witney-based social enterprise that is the UK’s only not-for-profit electricity supplier, lent money to a new company that …

CLIMATE SPECTATOR: Drifting solar flagships

Aaron — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:24:23 +0000

Climate Spectator It gave me little satisfaction to hear a prediction I made in April 2011 – that the selected Solar Flagship projects would fail to materialise – had proven correct (see page 35 of the Grattan Institute report, Learning …

Plans in place to integrate organic solar panels into building façades

Aaron — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:24:20 +0000

This new Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) solution will combine energy harvesting to reduce a building’s carbon footprint with a discrete, aesthetically pleasing, visual appearance. Heliatek’s award winning organic photovoltaic (OPV) technology is ideally suited to this application, because it is …

Legal Clash Over Solar Incentive Cuts In UK Heads To Supreme Court

Aaron — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:24:19 +0000

The U.K.’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is expected to formally file a Supreme Court appeal today challenging previous rulings that deemed its abrupt PV feed-in-tariff (FIT) cuts illegal. On Jan. 25, the U.K.’s Court of Appeal had …