Photovoltaic news and pv jobs

Even shooting stars can fall

Global feed-in tariff overview

Chinese tiers draw together on price

Checked decline

Elusive profitability

Global market ebb and flow

Poised for (PV) takeoff

Sweeping innuendo, but limited tariffs

Outback applications

By:  Jonathan Gifford

Australia: A lot has been made about PV’s ability to cause utilities and grid administrators headaches. However, in the wide open spaces of Australia, these same utilities are starting to look to PV as being a valuable ally in...

Simmering slowly

Variety by unity

Green school at the tip of Manhattan

A new opportunity awaits

Big plans

Standardize and deliver

Second wind

Mapping the way forward

“Made in China”

Eindhoven leads thin film R&D

“It’s a real blood bath”

Silicon nitride in focus

Logistically speaking

By:  Shamsiah Ali-Oettinger

Logistics: From raw polysilicon to power generators: it takes a tremendous amount of effort to produce a high-quality PV module. Thus, it is rather embarrassing when it reaches the end customer cracked, scratched, broken or with...

Global opportunities

New hooks for Britain’s roofs

The next challenge for solar?

Power up

Advancing Li-ion

By:  Habib Ali/ Shamsiah Ali-Oettinger

Lithium-ion batteries: Whether for off-grid applications or for self-consumption micro-grid systems, lithium battery storage technologies have steadily expanded their application scope and efficiency. REAPsystems together with...

Energy storage supports island grids

Night shifts possible

Solar with fossil fuels: partner or competitor?

By:  Jennifer Kho

Hybrid utilities: Fossil fuels are usually considered a competitor to solar technologies, not a partner. But utilities in the U.S. are installing concentrated solar power technologies at their existing coal and natural gas power...

Consume it yourself

The substitution game

Controlling edge sharpness using Rz

Buy now, pay later

By:  Jonathan Gifford

Solar leasing: The success of solar leases in the U.S., a kind of residential solar power purchase agreement, continues to impress and a range of non-conventional financial products and initiatives are delivering significant...

Safety first