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Solar electricity News for December 2012
The UK government has reduced the support for solar PV under the Renewables Obligation (RO) – the support mechanism for large renewables projects from 2013-2017 - by 20%.
19 December, 2012
The Fraunhofer Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE) is to receive project funding from the US government to develop “plug and play” PV technology as part of a national drive to make solar energy affordable.
19 December, 2012
German solar manufacturer Sunways Production is to reduce the production and development activities at its plant in Arnstadt, in an effort to bring the business back to breakeven point once more.
19 December, 2012
UK-based Photon Energy is aiming to claim its share of the African market for solar power, with an agreement to collaborate with Tanzanian company Comfix Engineering.
19 December, 2012
The price of solar PV systems is to keep on falling according to a joint report from the US government’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Berkeley’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL).
10 December, 2012
What were you all reading over the past month?
05 December, 2012
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has unveiled progress in its quest to increase the efficiency of solar technology – a so-called “solar energy funnel”, which uses elastic strain to increase the amount of solar energy which can be used to generate power.
05 December, 2012
Ontario-based solar PV manufacturer Heliene is to join forces with Italy’s Silfab in a manufacturing joint venture targeting the larger solar developers in Ontario, Canada, the companies have announced.
05 December, 2012
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04 December, 2012
Solar firms from the US and Germany are leading the field when it comes to installing utility-scale solar capacity, according to a list published by solar data company Wiki-Solar.
04 December, 2012
Forget Solyndra, Q-Cells and the rest. The fall of Sharp is equally as depressing.
04 December, 2012