Brazil, where solar installations last year were less than 1 percent of those in world leader Germany, is developing policies that may boost rooftop panel sales to $3 billion within 20 years.    Homeowners and businesses in Brazil may now trade electricity generated during the day by rooftop solar systems to utilities in exchange [...]

  The EU must harness its energy, transport and agriculture policies to cut CO2 emissions – and improve its Emissions Trading System (ETS) – to make the economy more competitive and dramatically less dependent on fossil fuels by 2050, says a non-binding resolution adopted by the European Parliament on Thursday.    Parliament broadly supports the [...]

  Around 10,000 solar modules supply environmentally friendly power SCHOTT Solar AG and CANOPY SAS announce the successful completion of their Mediterranean solar energy project. A solar park that features approximately 10,000 photovoltaic modules from the German manufacturer was recently completed near Ucciani in central Corsica. SCHOTT Solar and Canopy developed the project in partnership [...]

  Concerning the discussion on the reduction of solar subsidies, the Federal Environmental Minister Norbert Röttgen (CDU) and the Federal Minister of Economics, Philipp Rösler (FDP), have now agreed on a compromise. Thus, the government has cut the subsidization for photovoltaic plants by up to 30 percent as of March 9. These cuts will mainly [...]

Solarplaza’s Top 10 on polycrystalline modules shows that the Dutch company Solland Solar produces modules with the highest efficiency. Solland Solar's polycrystalline module has a module efficiency of 16.00%, which is 0.3% more than the number two, Siliken.     Solland Solar has created the innovative Sunweb, which utilizes back-contact cell technology. The Sunweb back-contact [...]

This might change during the next few years – says Tomasz Slusarz, CEO of Solar PV Consulting – observing the policy and market situation on the global markets for the past 8 years and comparing it to the current situation in Russia, I am quite confident that cumulative solar installed capacity in Russia can reach above 1 or even 2 GW by 2020, and I could bid with anyone on that.