Innovative Solar, Inc.,(ISI) the most innovative solar design team in the solar power industry, introduces Rapid Shutdown with Capacitor Discharge Systems, fully 690.12 compliant and requiring no modifications to the inverter. After having identified a need for a fully compliant rapid shutdown system for string inverters in the residential and commercial market, ISI introduced the […]
Muslim Leaders Deliver Islamic Climate Change Declaration as Paris Agreement Makes History
The Islamic Climate Change Declaration will be presented recently at the United Nations Headquarters to the President of the UN General Assembly, Mr Mogens Lykketoff. The occasion will also mark the official launch of the Global Muslim Climate Network as support for climate action within the world’s second largest faith group continues to grow. Today representatives […]
Atlantic Pioneer Gets To Work At Block Island
Today, the first US-built and operated offshore wind farm crew transfer vessel will be named at an official christening ceremony in Quonset Point, Rhode Island. Following the Christening the ‘Atlantic Pioneer’, owned and operated by Atlantic Wind Transfers, the commercial wind support services arm of Rhode Island Fast Ferry, will embark on the first phase […]
Simply Simple – Managing Personal Power Usage with Solar-Log™
When one produces their own PV power, they want to use it as effectively as possible. For this reason, plant operators are focusing more and more on self-consumption and energy storage. At the Intersolar 2016, SolareDatensysteme GmbH (SDS) will be presenting a wide range of possibilities for optimizing the consumption of self-produced power with the […]
Phoenix Solar strengthens its commitment to quality and sustainability management
Phoenix Solar AG, a leading international photovoltaic system integrator listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, has been awarded the ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 certificates for its enhanced quality and environmental management system.Due to increasing operating activities reflecting the strong growth and improved performance of the Phoenix Solar Group as a […]
Riding Solar Demand, Ecoppia Opens Mass Production Facility in India
Riding a wave of increased demand for their technology, Ecoppia – developer, designer, and producer of a pioneering robotic cleaning technology for utility-scale solar sites – today inked a deal to begin mass producing their E4 robots at a new, state-of-the-art facility near Chennai, India. With the rapid growth of the solar industry in India, […]
Wärtsilä enters solar energy business
Wärtsilä is entering the solar energy business by offering utility-scale solar photo-voltaic (PV) solutions. The new solutions include solar PV power plants of 10 MW and above, and hybrid power plants comprising solar PV plants and internal combustion engines. Both solutions are offered with full engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) delivery. Wärtsilä’s first solar project […]
Nanomaterial to drive new generation of solar cells
Physicists have discovered radical new properties in a nanomaterial, opening new possibilities for highly efficient thermophotovoltaic cells that could one day harvest heat in the dark and turn it into electricity. The research team from ANU/ARC Centre of Excellence CUDOS and the University of California Berkeley demonstrated a new artificial material, or metamaterial, that glows […]
UN Environment Programme Executive Director Statement on Paris Agreement Signing
UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Achim Steiner released the following statement on the occasion of the opening day for the signing of the Paris Agreement: “In Paris, the world’s nations agreed that climate change is a threat to planetary well-being. Having over 160 countries sign the Paris Agreement in New York on its opening […]
US-India Clean energy finance task force meets in America
The India-US Clean Energy Finance Task Force has met here to discuss ways for India to meet its ambitious energy targets for renewable energy by 2022. The Indian delegation included K S Popli, CMD of the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA) and Taranjit Singh Sandhu, Deputy Indian Ambassador to US. In addition to […]
