Three days ago, Vodafone Essar Ltd. revealed a new product in Mumbai, India meant to serve the millions of mobile subscribers living in rural parts of the country with limit access to electricity.
The International Medical Corps (IMC) received added support this week when Google.org decided to donate 3,000 solar chargers worth $216,000 to the IMC’s international relief efforts.
Two weeks before Copenhagen, India announces a national solar energy policy, with the ultimate goal of having 20,000 MW of solar energy installed by 2022.
Considering its sun-bleached location, you’d think it was only a matter of time before Algeria went solar. According to Algerian state media, the North African oil and gas producer has plans to build a plant for the manufacture of solar panels, in an effort to draw 5 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by [...]
India is set to announce a national solar energy plan this week, stemming from the solar energy mission detailed in the country’s 2008 National Action Plan on Climate Change.
Representatives of the German and Moroccan governments are scheduled to meet this week to discuss European investment in concentrated solar power and water desalinization in the North African country.
As recent events have suggested, solar developers and environmentalists haven’t always had a happy relationship. While environmentalists and advocates for the widespread adoption of solar power have yet to become bosom buddies (seems counterintuitive, doesn’t it?), a San Francisco building contractor by the name of Stephen Gold has shown that solar panels can be just [...]
The Indian state of Gujarat will soon be home to the world’s largest solar power complex, provided that it successfully acquires the thousands acres of land needed for the project by the end of the year. The $10 billion, 3,000-megawatt initiative will raise funding with the help of the Clinton Foundation and aims to develop [...]
Not content to sit idle as their Chinese rivals implement aggressive pricing strategies overseas, German solar manufacturers are fighting back by looking to a higher power. BSW (Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft, the German Solar Industry Association) has stated that it will decide whether or not to request regulatory action by the end of the year over what [...]
Thin-film solar manufacturer First Solar just signed an agreement with Chinese officials earlier today for what is currently considered the world’s largest photovoltaic power plant, a 2,000-megawatt solar farm in the Mongolian desert. The project is slated for completion in 2019 and represents just a small part of an 11,950-megawatt renewable energy park intended for [...]
