by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Solar News Stream
It is interesting to note that the market in Europe hasn’t waited for lower prices to develop while prices started to go down significantly in 2023 and especially after summer (see above), the lead time to develop utility-scale PV plants is in general about more than...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Solar News Stream
From a post on LinkedIn by Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Nat Bullard: Instructive example from Greg Nemet’s excellent book “How Solar Energy Became Cheap” (2019): “A megawatt-hour of PV electricity in 1957, for its first commercial use,...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Solar News Stream
During the Hail Stress Sequence, sample modules are struck by a 50mm lab-manufactured ice ball at terminal velocity (32 meters per second) in 11 different locations at a zero-degree angle. PVEL adds that the simulated hail strikes deliver an impact energy of 31.4...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Solar News Stream
G-Store, founded in 2007, was placed into administration on 2 February 2024 with Newscorp outlets reporting that the company’s sole director had been diagnosed with cancer. Melbourne-headquartered solar company G-Store Pty Ltd has collapsed. The administrator said the...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Solar News Stream
I talked to my electrician, who I’ve used for many years. But he’s clearly influenced by the conservative media’s take on all this climate stuff. He was pooh-poohing heat pumps: “Natural gas is great. If you get a heat pump, the grid’s going to collapse!” Going from...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Solar News Stream
EU energy policy chief Kadri SimsonSimson ruled out cutting off imports, which she said could compromise the EU’s ability to install enough solar energy capacity to meet climate targets“There are different proposals how we can support our industry, but clearly...
