For the past four months universities all over the world have been submitting proposals for the Solar Decathlon Europe (SDE) 2012 competition in Madrid, Spain. The inscription period has now closed with 33 teams out of 47 going through to the final selection stage.
The German government is looking to temper growth in solar panel installation in an attempt to protect consumers from rising costs. Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union fear that the escalating costs of solar power may lead to a fall in demand and undermine the acceptance of alternative energy.
Spain has made a decision to freeze the beginning of the country's €13.5 billion program to sell state-guaranteed power bonds until government debt-market volatility abates. Bank workers, who had begun calculating investor interest in the first tranche of bonds, will now have to wait until the yield stabilises on the country's debt.
Despite the deteriorating opportunities for ground-mounted solar parks in the Czech Republic, E.ON has commissioned a 4.2MWp solar park using 17,500 PV modules from Solarwatt. According to Solarwatt, the mono-crystalline modules were installed without a hitch in a construction period of only 10 weeks.
Having received UK Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) accreditation, aleo solar will be marketing its poly and mono-crystalline solar modules in the UK. The certification covers aleo modules S_16, S_17, S_18, S_19, S_24 and S_77. The company said it would be supporting installers with the design process through to after sales support services.
Evergreen Solar was awarded the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) certificate from the United Kingdom’s British Board of Agrément, demonstrating that the company’s ES-A series panels meet the requirements for solar projects under the Renewables Cash-Back-Scheme. The Cash-Back-Scheme, which started in the UK this past April, pays homeowners and communities that install low carbon electricity for the power they generate. Solar projects must use MSC certified panels that are installed by MCS accredited installers in order to qualify for the funding.
Sinosol has completed the grid connection of its 2.7MWp solar power plant in Engstingen-Haid, Germany. The company developed and constructed the power plant utilizing 12,400 Yingli solar modules and SMA central inverters.
