The Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21 Century (REN21) released its annual Renewables Global Status Report (GSR) on Wednesday, announcing good news for the renewable energy market.
Having recently reporting full-year solar cell and module shipment guidance of between 2.7GW and 2.9GW, JA Solar is also increasing solar cell capacity from 2.5GW to 2.8GW to better match module capacity levels.
Uncertainty surrounding the switch to the CfDs (Contracts for Difference) support scheme for large-scale solar in the UK will make it difficult for smaller companies and new market entrants to compete there, according to speakers at the Doing Solar Business in the UK conference in Munich.
A DEK Solar existing customer, Nice Sun PV Co., Ltd, located in Zhangzhu, Yixing City, China has ordered several DEK Solar Apollo metallisation platforms to integrate into its existing DEK Solar PV 1200 lines to increase capacity of solar cell production. The deal was said to have been struck on the first day of SNEC 2014, held last month in Shanghai, China.
Brazil’s Mines and Energy Ministry (MEM) has announced Brazil’s third national renewables-only tender auction will be held on 10 October, with a strong focus on solar expected.
Investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency will fall well below what is required to head off dangerous global warming without a breakthrough in the Paris climate change talks next year, the International Energy Agency has warned.
Renewable energy lobbyist, the Europe-Ukrainian Energy Agency (EUEA), has hailed moves by the European Commission to speed up renewables deployment and reduce the bloc’s dependence on Russian gas.
The deployment of solar storage units in German is set to boom over the next few years in what has been hailed a “quiet revolution” for the PV industry.
