The South Pacific territory of Tokelau is set to become the first territory to have its electricity provided entirely by photovoltaics. The archipelago is a dependent territory of New Zealand. The Tokelau installations could set an example right across the South Pacific......[More]

Exchanges where companies and investors can buy and sell renewable energy credits has helped to boost solar in states such as New Jersey. And the idea has now enticed a San Francisco, venture capital-backed startup, Clean Power Finance, to adopt the model to launch a ne......[More]

China’s Ministry of Commerce said Friday that protectionist measures will harm the European solar energy industry and the two sides should resolve the dispute through negotiations. The move came after a report revealed that Germany’s SolarWorld and other European solar ......[More]

A technology that would enable low-cost, high efficiency solar cells to be made from virtually any semiconductor material has been developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy""s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of C......[More]

The Financial Times have reported that Solar World filed an anti-dumping complaint accusing Chinese manufactures of selling photovoltaic cells below cost, the EU commission will have 45 days from the date of filing to decide whether to start an investigation. According ......[More]

Following the lead of several US solar panel makers, European solar makers are set to launch a complaint with the European Commission accusing China’s solar panel makers of selling solar PV cells below cost in the European Union. Germany’s SolarWorld, which rode point o......[More]