Today, June 20, is the summer solstice. Supposedly, we should see more sun today than on another other day of 2012. No doubt the perennially unpredictable...
Mike Scott writes how there is little doubt that the UK’s attempts over the last year to get a grip on its solar incentives programme were...
A renewable energy company has installed over 1,000 solar panels at a site in Warrington, in what it’s calling “the biggest roof-based solar PV project in...
Germany’s solar installations well and truly soaked in the sun over the weekend, working overtime to provide a peak of 22 gigawatts (GW) of electricity per...
The solar industry has breathed a unified sigh of relief, after it emerged that cuts to the feed-in tariff scheme were to be delayed until August...
The recent spate of innovative solar power projects show that the sector is well and truly on the up. And it doesn’t stop there. We’ve got...
One of the UK’s biggest solar power farms could be built in Suffolk, after a green energy company revealed plans for a 25 megawatt (MW) park...
Energy secretary Ed Davey has said that the Government may “tweak” the start date of the new, lower feed-in tariff (FiT) rate for solar panel owners,...
Two American companies—MidAmerican Solar and First Solar—have begun significant work on a 550 megawatt (MW) solar project that is planned to power some 160,000 Californian homes....
Some 650 megawatts (MW) of new solar capacity was installed in Germany in January and February – almost double the amount during the same period in...
The grid operators of UK and Denmark are examining the possibility of a power cable running between the two countries so that the pair could share...
A new infographic, created using Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) data, visualises the energy share of all the UK’s renewable technologies by quarter between...
After a less-than-convincing year in 2010, investment in UK renewable energy leapt 35% in 2011, with a total of £5.9 billion pumped into the sector, according...
The solar ambitions of Japan, home of the Kyoto protocol, have stepped up a gear after Kyocera Corporation announced plans to build a 70 megawatt plant...