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Steve Andrews, SolarAid’s ceo, makes his acceptance speech
SolarAid has been selected as a Gold Award winner in the 2013 International Ashden Awards for its work building sustainable markets for small solar lights across East Africa.
Enphase Energy has announced a new initiative aimed to equip installers in the commercial solar market.
Segen has added the new black framed Hyundai 260w panels to its current range of Hyundai products.
Martifer Solar, a subsidiary of Martifer SGPS, has launched the Energy Portal, a new O&M platform developed to integrate all the monitoring systems of its customers’ PV plants.
Dr Thomas Hillig,VP module sales & marketing at Innotech Solar
Scandinavian module manufacturer Innotech Solar (ITS) has secured Krannich Solar as a partner. The company added ITS solar modules to its portfolio in May 2013.
The SOLiC 200 solar immersion controller is now for sale in the UK from renewable energy trade distributors, NuVision Energy.
Oxford Photovoltaics has been named the winner of the Innovation Award at the British Renewable Energy Awards ceremony, recently-held by the Renewable Energy Association (REA) in London.
320 Watt BenQ Sunforte modules have now arrived in the UK and are on their way to SunGift Trade, ready to arrive at the Exeter-based wholesaler’s warehouse by the end of this week.
Following completion of Lark Energy’s first phase of large scale solar projects, totalling 60MWp, the company reports that it has recently secured planning permission for a further 100MWp of solar farms.
David Grindley of Savills Energy
The announcement that the European Commission will impose provisional anti-dumping duties on wafers, solar cells and modules imported from China could be good news for the long-term future of the solar industry, says David Grindley of Savills Energy.
Innotech Solar’s Glava factory
Located in the Swedish village of Glava, the module factory of the Scandinavian-German manufacturer, Innotech Solar (ITS), is celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Latest Ofgem figures reveal that over the last year the south west has topped the ‘league table’ for households installing solar panels, with more than 15,000 confirmed installations and around 57 MW installed capacity. This compares to the next closest region, the south east with 13,000 followed by the east midlands with just over 12,000 installations.
Eco2Solar has secured a £0.7m order book to provide solar PV to 323 new homes and four large apartment blocks under its Preferred Supplier Agreement with Galliford Try’s housebuilding division Linden Homes.
The Solar Future is the UK’s leading solar PV conference. This year it will take place on 16th July at Central Hall, Westminster in London, and will be followed by the Energy Storage UK conference on 17th July, at the same venue.
Greenologic is launching the Power Reducer – a proportional controller that will automatically divert surplus energy from a solar PV array to the immersion tank before it is exported to the grid.
EJOT UK’s Building Fasteners Division is reporting strong interest in its UK specific solar fixing bracket – i-Clip, following the product’s preview at the Roofex Show in Birmingham, early in May.
The UK solar market is on course to deliver 1-1.5GW in 2013 driven by a dedicated government’s solar strategy targeting 20GW of solar by 2020. The UK’s solar ambition is underscored by a number of stable support mechanisms designed to encourage solar’s uptake in domestic and commercial segments, says organisers of the Solar Energy UK 2013.
Google has selected SolarAid to recieve a £500,000 Global Impact Award.
A new hybrid technology that integrates wind and solar power is being developed by SME McCamley Middle East Ltd with research input from the University of Bath’s Department of Mechanical Engineering.
The EU has formally imposed provisional anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese solar panels of 11.8 per cent starting from tomorrow (06 June).
Segen has announced a new partnership with solar panel manufacturer WINAICO in order to help reduce the impact of the EU anti-dumping tariffs on the Solar PV industry.
Head of Europe at Trina Solar, Ben Hill
Trina Solar has announced that it has recently supplied 10.5MW of PV modules to Prosolia Energía, for two agricultural projects in the UK.
SolarTech reports that it has secured over 25 megawatts of PV solar farm contracts cross the country in the first four months of 2013.
Germany-based 3D-Micromac will launch what it says is the “first production equipment worldwide that can conduct the integrated series-connection of a thin-film solar module on one single platform and in one single production step.”