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Solar energy - South Africa’s job creation powerhouse

Solar energy - South Africa’s job creation powerhouse

Apart from curbing South Africa’s gigantic carbon footprint and being a reliable and cost-effective source of power, solar energy will create thousands and thousands of much-needed jobs if the government plays its cards right.

Stock-Listed Solar PV Companies lost more than 30 billion dollars in 2011

17 Jan 12 - 15:23 CET
Stock-Listed Solar PV Companies lost more than 30 billion dollars in 2011

The year 2011 saw the industry’s stock-listed solar companies lose more than 30 billion dollars. This is based on Solarplaza’s Top 10 lists of the World’s Best-Performing PV Stocks and the World’s Biggest Stock-Listed Solar PV Companies (market ...

India: “Solar power to exceed government target”

13 Jan 12 - 12:59 CET
India: “Solar power to exceed government target”

Solar power generation in India can by far exceed the government’s target, believe experts in the sector. Rapidly decreasing prices of technology and innovative business models will contribute to the industry’s potential.

High-Tech Solar Inverter Industry in European Hands

11 Jan 12 - 12:09 CET
High-Tech Solar Inverter Industry in European Hands

Solarplaza’s Top 10 on most efficient string inverters (<5kW) contains seven companies from Germany. The other three companies in this Top 10 are Austrian, Dutch and Japanese. This is a big difference to the solar PV module industry which nowadays is ...

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Trina Denies Charge It Tried to Evade Duties on Solar Imports

BLOOMBERG - Trina Solar Ltd. (TRINAZ), a Chinese maker of crystalline silicon panels, denied charges by a competitor that it ...

Tepco Starts Solar Plant in Japan’s Yamanashi Prefecture

BLOOMBERG - Tokyo Electric Power Co. started operations at a 10-megawatt solar-power plant in Japan’s Yamanashi prefecture, near Tokyo, according ...

Suntech launches new PV products for Middle East market at WFES

SOLAR SERVER - On January 24th, 2012, Suntech Power (Wuxi, China) announced that it launched two new solar photovoltaic (PV) ...

Solar CEOs Predict Boom in China Will Ease Glut in 2012: Energy

BLOOMBERG - China may double its installations of solar panels this year, absorbing excess production that depressed prices and margins ...

Solar PV module prices to fall 4% in January

RENEWABLE ENERGY FOCUS - Solar photovoltaic (PV) module prices are expected to fall 4% in January after a 7% increase ...

Solar industry woes to hit Wacker Chemie margins

REUTERS - Wacker Chemie (WCHG.DE) expects margins at its cash-cow polysilicon unit to fall in the medium term, due to ...

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