EPA announces coal power emissions rule
President Barack Obama’s long-awaited clean air rule would seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants by an average 30% of 2005 levels by 2030. Coal-power plants are likely to be the most heavily hit.
IEA publishes new reports on PV performance and reliability
The agency’s first three published reports focus on PV performance and the impact of PV module failure of both crystalline silicon and thin-film technologies.
Intersolar Europe: Storage technology in the spotlight
Interview: Markus Elsässer, CEO of Intersolar Europe organizer Solar Promotion, discusses the expected trends and highlights at this year’s event.
Failed export strategy killed Indian manufacturers
Solar manufacturers facing the imposition of AD duties on their goods in India claim Indian manufacturers were saddled with huge costs after investing in capacity for an export market that never materialized.
Solar power storage system sales set to soar in Germany
A “quiet revolution” is taking place in the country’s PV industry: a number of factors are coming together that will result in a boom in PV energy storage solutions, according to Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI).
Silence from Indian solar importers
None of the 39 solar companies presumed to have benefited by importing dumped goods disputed the claim. pv magazine emailed 39 companies with no response.
Europe on course to install just 10 GW of PV in 2014, finds NPD Solarbuzz
Figure represents an annual decline of 7% compared to last year, and sees Europe’s share of global PV demand fall to 22%.
US residential installations outstrip commercial for first time ever, finds SEIA
Reports from the first quarter of the year show that 1.33 GW of PV capacity was installed in the US, with the residential sector outperforming commercial.
Manufacturers will be quids-in from July
IHS says a record level of solar installations in the fourth quarter will start to benefit manufacturers from July onwards. The UK is predicted to overtake Germany and become the world’s fourth largest solar market in 2014.
Majority of Americans favor energy system overhaul, study finds
Survey in advance of next week’s EPA carbon regulations shows that 66% of Americans believe that power system modernization is a good idea.
