Solar energy for 1bn people?

Grand solar energy plans -- such as turning the Sahara or the Mojave into giant, clean power plants -- are good at grabbing big headlines and big investments. But, for hundreds of millions of people around the world, the energy revolution lies with small-scale solar. Affordable, off-the-grid, renewable energy could help deliver what some 1.3 billion…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 13, 20130Comments

Policy

UK government: A study in how NOT to show love for solar

There's been plenty of squawking about the Obama Administration's spending on solar-energy development (ie, the overwrought hoopla surrounding the Solyndra "scandal"). But any missteps the US government has taken pale in comparison to what's been going on across the pond. Coming into office with the promise to build the "greenest government ever," Prime Minister David Cameron's…

ByThe Global ViewJanuary 25, 20120Comments

Smart Cities

Cleantech funding hit new heights in ’08

It's official: 2008, while being generally miserable for many business ventures, was a banner year for cleantech. The Cleantech Group reports that worldwide cleantech investments last year soared to a record high of $8.4 billion (US). It was the sector's seventh consecutive year of investment growth. Whether that trend can continue into an eighth straight year in…

ByThe Global ViewJanuary 7, 20091Comment

Energy

Solar powered Prius – pie in the sky?

Over the holiday period Greenbang caught the 'Best of Top Gear' programme on BBC, which featured crash-tastic presenter Richard Hammond out in Toyota City in Japan test driving the car manufacturers latest prototype vehicle - a single seater scooter/car hybrid that looked just a bit too much like a, err, wheelchair, albeit one that can…

ByThe Global ViewJanuary 5, 20090Comments

Energy

China to build 1GW solar power plant

Plans have been unveiled for a giant 1GW solar power station in Qaidam Basin desert region of north western China. China Technology Development Group and Qinghai New Energy Group have signed an agreement with the local government of the Qinghai Haixi region to build the solar power station, which will have an initial power generating capacity…

ByThe Global ViewJanuary 5, 20090Comments

Cities

Dark clouds forecast by solar cell maker

we've all been anxiously watching the cleantech and renewable energy sector for signs of the impact of the recession and global financial crisis and there was some bad news today when the world's largest solar cell manufacturer Q-Cells cut its profit forecast and gave a gloomy forecast going into next year. Q-Cells said the grim economic…

ByThe Global ViewDecember 9, 20080Comments

Energy

California OKs solar thermal contract

Solar thermal is the way to go, says California's Public Utilities Commission. Commissioners this week approved a contract between Southern California Edison and eSolar, a firm that plans to build solar thermal energy facilities that could generate up to 245 megawatts of electricity. Under the 20-year contract, inked earlier this year, Southern California Edison will purchase…

ByThe Global ViewDecember 5, 20080Comments

Energy

Sharp sets up $1.05bn solar power venture in Italy

Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer Sharp and Italy's largest power company, Enel SpA, are to invest $1.05bn in a solar power joint venture that will have a total generating capacity of 189MW for Southern Italy by 2012. A number of photovoltaic power plants will be set up mainly in southern Italy and will utilize thin-film solar cells,…

ByThe Global ViewNovember 28, 20080Comments

Smart Cities

Computer modeling could boost solar efficiency

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say computer simulations could help design a next-generation solar cell that's up to 50 percent more efficient that today's versions. The team says a combination of computer modeling and various advanced chip-making techniques make it possible for light to bounce around longer inside the silicon of a solar…

ByThe Global ViewNovember 25, 20080Comments

Energy

Dead heat for Spanish cemetery

The Spanish city of Santa Coloma de Gramanet, near Barcelona, has come up with a pretty unusual way of generating renewable power - by installing solar panels on top of mausoleums at the local cemetery. Reports say the project cost just over £600,000 and the 462 solar panels will create enough energy to power 60 homes…

ByThe Global ViewNovember 25, 20080Comments

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Solar energy for 1bn people?

UK government: A study in how NOT to show love for solar

Cleantech funding hit new heights in ’08

Solar powered Prius – pie in the sky?

China to build 1GW solar power plant

Dark clouds forecast by solar cell maker

California OKs solar thermal contract

Sharp sets up $1.05bn solar power venture in Italy

Computer modeling could boost solar efficiency

Dead heat for Spanish cemetery

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