Forum Solarpraxis

Winfried Hoffmann, a well-known figure throughout the PV world, has created a learning curve for battery storage that predicts costs will fall much faster than many experts believe.

At the Off-Grid PV workshop on the second day of the Forum Solarpraxis conference in Berlin on Friday experts discussed the opportunities, obstacles and trends of the market.

Charge would strangle the growing self consumption market, say attendees at the 14th Forum Solarpraxis. Policy support is needed to drive solar and storage costs must come down say solar representatives.

Rumors gain strength as Wall Street Journal reports it’s almost a done deal. The Journal says Solarworld will purchase Bosch’s Arnstadt production facility.

CEO’s unanimous at 14th Forum Solarpraxis – We must not rely on politicians. Use of social media is cited as a means of bypassing politics to get the PV message direct to consumers.

Attendees at the 14th Forum Solarpraxis in Berlin have called for the role of renewables installations in stabilizing the electricity grid to be recognized. Grid representatives acknowledge possibilities but lament the lack of a political framework.

Increasing global opportunities and the advantages of falling PV prices took center stage at the 14th Forum Solarpraxis, which welcomed some 600 industry representatives to the two-day event.

Tobias Cossen, project manager, Renewable Energy Project Development Program for Sub-Saharan Africa, at the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), discusses the state of solar in Tanzania and Mozambique.

Chinese vertically integrated module manufacturer ZNSHINE SOLAR announces expansion of its global network and introduces newly developed power optimizing technologý at pre-Forum Solarpraxis press conference.