JOHANNESBURG – Of all renewable energy sources, solar has the biggest potential in South Africa. That is because the host of the COP17 climate change conference in Durban has one of the highest and the most stable solar radiations in the world. “The variable is around 3%. That means that on a good day, solar [...]

New York City’s garbage never looked so good. Solar firms are already lining up for a piece of the city’s landfills, after Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced last week that some 250 acres would be opened for sun-powered installations. The move gives New York a chance to shine in the emerging solar space, and to compete [...]

Google’s product portfolio has now expanded from search engine power to solar power. The company has invested $168 million in a Mojave Desert facility that will become the world’s largest solar power tower plant. The site is located on 3,600 acres of land in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California. According to gizmag, “the Ivanpah [...]

Solar panel installations may surge in the next two years as the cost of generating electricity from the sun rivals coal-fueled plants, industry executives and analysts said. Large photovoltaic projects will cost $1.45 a watt to build by 2020, half the current price, Bloomberg New Energy Finance estimated today. The London-based research company says solar [...]

Tata Steel has said it is investing around £10m in a trio of Welsh research projects working to commercialise emerging low carbon building technologies, such as paint on solar cells that could turn homes, offices and factories into mini power stations. Tata yesterday cut the ribbon on the £6.5m Sustainable Building Envelope Centre at Shotton [...]

The world is in desperate need of a clean source of energy and a shift towards Solar seems to be the best solution, says Hari Kiran Chereddi, Managing Director, Sujana Energy Solar is the colour and mood of the moment. Solar has today become an important part of Going Green movements and has moved towards [...]

A new solar energy capture technology is able to generate electricity from light and heat at the same time, producing double the efficiency of existing solar panels, according to new reports on August 2, 2010. Current solar panels, called photovoltaic cells, become less efficient as heat increases, whereas this new technique becomes more efficient as [...]

EASTERN Cape businesses have been urged to move quickly and grasp opportunities provided by a leading-edge, power-saving project in Nelson Mandela Bay. The message came from Central Energy Fund (CEF) executive Jabu Shabalala and followed an announcement that a R10-million pilot project to install the first of a planned 100000 solar-powered water heaters is only [...]