Green Energy
- Solar Energy Dominates First Quarter With 74 Percent Of New Electric Capacity
Solar energy was clearly the top choice when it came to new, electric generating capacity installed during this year’s first quarter.Power generated from the sun accounted for 74 percent of that new capacity, according to aquarterly report produced...
- Where Is Your State In The Solar Race?
Solar households now represent almost 1.7 GW of installed capacity says Professor Ray Wills, chief adviser to the Sustainable Energy Association (SEA). The impressive tally, gained from data up until the end of March sourced...
- One Million Up For Germany!
Germany's Millionth Solar Power System Installed 21 years after an ambitious program was launched in Germany to promote the uptake of solar, the nation's 1 millionth solar panel array has been installed. According to the German Solar Industry...
- Can Solar Panels Help Solve California's Drought
Article originally parished in www.bloomberg.com, on april 17th 2015. From a distance, they almost look like a massive mosaic swimming-pool cover. They are photovoltaic panels, half-millimeter thick silicon wafers that are erected over reservoirs. Their...
- Japan Gives Final Approval To 10% Tariff Cut For Solar Power
Article published on www.bloomberg.com on March 29, 2013 By Chisaki Watanabe Japan gave final approval to a recommendation to cut the tariff for solar power by 10 percent for the year starting April 1 to 37.8 yen (40 cents) per kilowatt hour for...
Green Energy
Japan on the road of renewable energies
Article published on www.bloomberg.com/news on March, 15th 2013
By Chisaki Watanabe
Japan Adds 1,178 Megawatts of Mostly Solar Energy in Nine Months
Japan added 1,178 megawatts of mostly solar clean-energy capacity in the nine months to the end of December as the country curbs its reliance on nuclear power.
Japan added 1,119 megawatts of solar to the 4,800 megawatts already installed, according to data released by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on March 13. Wind rose 34 megawatts and biomass 22 megawatts, according to the government figures.
The country began an incentive program for clean energy in July to boost use of renewables after the 2011 Fukushima atomic disaster. The ministry approved applications for above-market rates for clean energy worth 5,236 megawatts until the end of December, including 3,857 megawatts of non-residential solar.
The northern island of Hokkaido accounts for 26 percent of approved applications by capacity for solar plants 1 megawatt or larger, the most among Japan’s 47 prefectures, the data showed.
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- Solar Energy Dominates First Quarter With 74 Percent Of New Electric Capacity
Solar energy was clearly the top choice when it came to new, electric generating capacity installed during this year’s first quarter.Power generated from the sun accounted for 74 percent of that new capacity, according to aquarterly report produced...
- Where Is Your State In The Solar Race?
Solar households now represent almost 1.7 GW of installed capacity says Professor Ray Wills, chief adviser to the Sustainable Energy Association (SEA). The impressive tally, gained from data up until the end of March sourced...
- One Million Up For Germany!
Germany's Millionth Solar Power System Installed 21 years after an ambitious program was launched in Germany to promote the uptake of solar, the nation's 1 millionth solar panel array has been installed. According to the German Solar Industry...
- Can Solar Panels Help Solve California's Drought
Article originally parished in www.bloomberg.com, on april 17th 2015. From a distance, they almost look like a massive mosaic swimming-pool cover. They are photovoltaic panels, half-millimeter thick silicon wafers that are erected over reservoirs. Their...
- Japan Gives Final Approval To 10% Tariff Cut For Solar Power
Article published on www.bloomberg.com on March 29, 2013 By Chisaki Watanabe Japan gave final approval to a recommendation to cut the tariff for solar power by 10 percent for the year starting April 1 to 37.8 yen (40 cents) per kilowatt hour for...