Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Solar Power News

Solar Power News


Energy future is solar – Russian boffin - The Voice of Russia

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 04:46 AM PST


Energy future is solar – Russian boffin
The Voice of Russia
Russia is joining the US, the EU, Japan and China in drafting plans for huge solar power plants in orbit. According to Professor Vitali Melnikov, installations of this kind would be easily serviceable, non-polluting and incapable of giving rise to ...

Government solar subsidy appeal fails - HeatingandVentilation.net

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 04:38 AM PST


Government solar subsidy appeal fails
HeatingandVentilation.net
The Government has failed to overturn a High Court decision made in December which ruled that its plans to cut solar power subsidy payments were illegal. Today (25 January) the Court of Appeal unanimously rejected the Government's appeal, ...

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Government loses solar subsidy appeal - PlanningResource (subscription)

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 04:32 AM PST


Government loses solar subsidy appeal
PlanningResource (subscription)
By Bryan Johnston 25 January 2012 The Court of Appeal has rejected the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC's) appeal against a High Court ruling that it acted unlawfully in proposing to implement a cut to subsidy rates for solar power ...

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UK Gov't loses solar appeal but bigger issue looms over sector - Responding to Climate Change (press release) (blog)

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 04:06 AM PST


Responding to Climate Change (press release) (blog)

UK Gov't loses solar appeal but bigger issue looms over sector
Responding to Climate Change (press release) (blog)
By John Parnell The UK Government has lost its appeal this morning against a ruling that deemed its retrospective changes to solar power tariffs unlawful. While solar industry bosses have welcomed the decision, there are concerns over changes to other ...

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Government loses crucial stage in solar panels curb - Evening Standard

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 04:06 AM PST


Government loses crucial stage in solar panels curb
Evening Standard
The solar power industry was today celebrating a victory in the appeal against Government cuts to subsidies. The Court of Appeal rejected Energy Secretary Chris Huhne's claim he had the power to go ahead with the controversial scheme.

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SolarEdge Launches a New Line of North American Inverters with up to 98 ... - MarketWatch (press release)

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 04:01 AM PST


SolarEdge Launches a New Line of North American Inverters with up to 98 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
GRASS VALLEY, Calif., Jan 25, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- SolarEdge Technologies, a leading global provider of end-to-end solar power optimization systems and monitoring solutions, announced today the introduction of a new line of top efficiency, ...

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BrightSource Ashelim renewable energy tender cut by 30% - Globes

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 03:58 AM PST


BrightSource Ashelim renewable energy tender cut by 30%
Globes
This is the country's flagship tender in the renewable energy sector, through which three solar power stations will be built at an overall cost of $1.5-2 billion. The BrightSource and Alstom consortium, Megalim Solar Power Ltd., was the only party to ...

Newly developed Bisol monitoring system guarantees flawless PV system functioning - pv magazine (press release)

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 03:48 AM PST


Newly developed Bisol monitoring system guarantees flawless PV system functioning
pv magazine (press release)
Solar power plant is a reliable and low-maintenance system, however due to the PV system's exposure to the outdoor elements, electrical grid problems, component wear and tear or poor maintenance, faults in performance may occur.

S.D. leads state in solar power generation - U-T San Diego

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 03:43 AM PST


S.D. leads state in solar power generation
U-T San Diego
Among larger cities, Santa Rosa and Clovis stand out in terms of solar-power adoption, with about 10 installations, or 80 kilowatts of capacity, per 1000 residents. Kinman said some of the geographic imbalances can be traced to higher levels of ...

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KYOCERA provides solar power generating system Republic of Palau's ... - PV-Tech

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 03:37 AM PST


PV-Tech

KYOCERA provides solar power generating system Republic of Palau's ...
PV-Tech
1080 Kyocera 210W solar modules have been supplied to a solar power generating system at Palau international airport, installed on top of the shading structures in the parking lot. The design and implementation of the parking lot solar project was a ...

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