As the 17th annual Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) begins in South Africa this week, Soitec announced that it had built a CPV power plant as the flagship project for the Durban, South Africa site. The 500kW project will power the COP17 gathering, taking place [...]

The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has published its consultation document for the comprehensive review of solar feed-in tariffs. After weeks of speculation surrounding the UK government’s support for solar power, the new proposed rates and the timeline within which they will be implemented have finally been outlined. As was widely expected, [...]

In the new reported conducted by GTM Research and Bridge to India, The India Solar Market: Strategy, Players and Opportunities, researchers have concluded that over the next five years India will become one of the major players in the solar industry with the installation of more than 9GW between 2011 and 2016. Researchers cited the [...]

The Bundesnetzagentur, Germany’s Federal Network Agency, will cut the country’s solar feed-in tariff (FiT) by 15% in 2012. The subsidy reduction is more severe than the 12% forecasted by many industry insiders and was triggered by the 5.2GW of new capacity installed between October 2010 and September 2011. Under the German Government’s Renewables Act, the [...]

The South Australian government has announced a new renewable energy plan which outlines new regulations for future wind farms.   As well as banning the establishment of any new coal fired power stations, the plan will regulate placement of future wind farms.   Tabled by Premier Mike Rann, the plan outlines regulation to keep future [...]

Installed capacity in Italy is expected to reach 12.5GW by the end of the year, according to the chairman of the Italian Photovoltaic Industry Association (GIFI), Valerio Natalizia. However, at the same news conference, Natalizia also revealed that the industry’s growth rate will slow down considerably next year, with new installations expected to total between [...]

Bloomberg New Energy Finance forecasts that Australia’s carbon price will fall to $16 per tonne in 2015–16, as scheme participants seek least-cost abatement from the international carbon market. The Australian carbon price is predicted to decline from $25 per tonne in 2014-15 to $16 in 2015-16 with the start of the traded market, according to [...]

Provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, separately listed cities and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps: order to meet the needs of building a moderately prosperous society, and promote circulation of modern logistics in China sustained, rapid and coordinated development, according to “The People’s Republic of China National Economic and Social Development Five-Year Plan” and “the State Council [...]

Provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, separately listed cities and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, National Economic and Technological Development Zone: 2007, the national business system with a high sense of mission and sense of responsibility, hard work, to forge ahead, with the relevant departments to work together to achieve the absorption of foreign investment work better [...]

Today, the eleventh session of China’s more than half of the fair. Only 3 days, Anhui Province, more than 800 delegations, signed a 19.1 billion relief projects, only the green areas in Hubei province signed a 11 on more than 100 million yuan, to go to learn from Chongqing Hi-Tech Fair Organizing Committee sigh and [...]