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Nevada’s principal utility, NV Energy, was growing its residential electricity sales at a rate of about 5% a year until 2007. Mike Salisbury isn’t sure what caused that to change, though the most likely cause is a combination of slow economic growth, efficiency programs (which resulted in less need for electricity) and the introduction of rooftop solar. Salisbury believes that

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Tesla Motors announced big plans earlier this year. Though the agreement is not public, Panasonic is also involved: it plans to manufacture and supply cylindrical lithium-ion cells Tesla uses to build battery packs to power electric cars. Specifically, said Sebastian Blanco of Autoblog Green in June, batteries from Tesla’s announced Gigafactory will power the concept vehicle Tesla Model 3, a

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If you are using Neware BTS3000 series instument and didn’t upgrade to network edition(which means you are still using the COM port version). The main differences between Neware COM port version and network version are: 1. The software of the COM port version won’t be upgraded any more(the latested version is TC5.4 and it will stay there forever); While the

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Analysts from UBS and Citigroup, two of the world’s largest investment banks, believe the growth of solar power, in combination with advances in batteries and electric cars, will cause a huge disruption in the energy industry. UBS believes centralised fossil fuel generation  will become “extinct” sooner than most people realise. Citigroup predicts renewables will replace coal and gas in power

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Is the renewables glass half-full or half-empty? That’s the central question that appears to run through the International Energy Agency (IEA’s) new comprehensive market report on the state of renewable energy in the world. The answer is complex. Renewables have made “tremendous progress”, notes the IEA, but growth “falls short of global climate change objectives”. Karel Beckman reports.   The

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Utilities in Europe and North America “have to change their business model, whether they like it or not”, says the International Energy Agency (IEA). At the same time, the IEA is very critical about the plans of several European countries to set up capacity schemes which the large European enegy companies are pleading for. “We should try energy-only solutions first

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The one major German solar panel manufacturer that survived a plunge in prices triggered by competition from China said it shipped near-record modules this month and seeks to keep selling at that level. Solarworld AG (SWVK) delivered the most modules in the company’s history in July and expects similar amounts this month, Chief Executive Officer Frank Asbeck said today. Bonn-based

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The one major German solar panel manufacturer that survived a plunge in prices triggered by competition from China said it shipped near-record modules this month and seeks to keep selling at that level. Solarworld AG (SWVK) delivered the most modules in the company’s history in July and expects similar amounts this month, Chief Executive Officer Frank Asbeck said today. Bonn-based

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Solar manufacturers are set to ship a record number of panels this year, with the largest makers expected to deliver 52 percent more panels between them than 2013. Hanwha SolarOne Co. saw “robust” volumes in the first half while maintaining its aim to sell as many as 1.6 gigawatts of panels this year, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the

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Hitachi High-Technologies Corp. (8036) and Etrion Corp. (ETX) will build two solar-power stations in Japan as they embark on a plan to develop 300 megawatts of capacity in the country by 2017. Construction of a 24.7-megawatt plant in the northern prefecture of Iwate and a 9.3-megawatt station in Ibaraki, northeast of Tokyo, is scheduled to begin this year, the companies

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