News

The installation price of residential PV systems in Germany is lower than the price in the US, according to the results of a survey conducted by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Spain’s National Energy Commission (CNE) has announced that electricity generated by solar PV accounted for 1.7% of the country’s energy demand in December 2012.

The Asia Pacific (APAC) region is forecast to grow to 13.5GW in 2013, representing a 50% year-on-year growth rate, according to the latest NPD Solarbuzz Q1’13 Asia Pacific Major PV Markets Quarterly report.

KiloWattsol, an independent French technical advisor for renewable energy, has introduced a new service whereby it provides PV system owners in Germany, France and Spain with a new monthly solar irradiation report on their PV installation.

Californian utility company Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) has accused solar net metering users of increasing energy rates for its customers.

Indian renewable energy business Astonfield Renewables has appointed B.K. Halder as the company’s Vice Chairman.

Panansonic has produced an advanced version of its hybrid HIT solar cell with a record conversion efficiency of 24.7%, 0.8% higher than before.

The third-party financing business model is dominating the booming US residential market, according to the latest report from GTM Research.

Today sees the launch of PV-Tech’s daily news bulletin. From today we will publish a daily news service bringing our readers a selection of the day’s top breaking stories, articles you may have missed and in depth pieces exploring aspects of the global solar industry.

Quanta Services has announced its subsidiary Quanta Power Generation has been awarded an EPC contract by Con Edison Development (CED) to develop two 20MW PV facilities.