Feed The Grid

The future still looks unpromising, though, for the companies in a market where profit margins teeter on being non-existent and recent government policy changes on solar feed-in tariff are set to demotivate the country's solar PV industry. Plans for Resuming ...

CUXHAVEN, Germany — The massive cost of constructing offshore wind farms presents the industry with its greatest challenge and makes government involvement essential, German members of the industry told a New Bedford trade delegation Monday.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - April 22, 2013) - P2 Solar, Inc. (the "Company") (OTCBB:PTOS) announces the construction of a state of the art solar rooftop PV system for Canada Ticket, Inc., at their office and warehouse complex based in British Columbia in Langley.

That's at odds with Leader Resources President Charles Edey who tells Bayshore Broadcasting News that British Columbia has brought in a feed-in tariff program to promote wind developments in that province. Thompson believes paying municipalities to ...

In his Poetics, the Greek philosopher Aristotle draws a distinction between Tragedies and Epics: he states that while Tragedies are confined to one revolution of the sun (i.e. one year), Epics can be of unlimited duration. In light of the seemingly unending saga of cuts and retroactive changes that have plagued Spain's renewable electricity sector since the fall of 2008, it can now be said that

The National Trust has announced it is to install a 300kW biomass boiler at Ickworth House which will supply all of its heating needs.

Solar has the potential to reinvent the way the world powers itself. Already a $100 billion industry, solar must be considered a key element in the world's response to climate change and the global need to reduce fossil fuel consumption. Global trade issues, however, threaten the ability of the solar industry to make a major contribution to the most pressing issue of our time

The government recently reduced the solar feed-in tariff—the guaranteed price utilities must pay to approved solar projects for a period of 20 years under Japanese law—by 10%, to 37.8 yen ($0.39) per kilowatt-hour for projects approved starting in the year ...

There is something unique in the policy being enforced by the Philippines Department of Energy (DOE) when it comes to renewable energy projects - it is setting high risk investment terrain for developers.

AS the cost of living continues to bite, Queenslanders have spent a staggering amount of money on solar system installations in the past two years.

To address this, the Japanese parliament approved legislation in 2011 for the creation of a national Feed-In Tariff (FIT) scheme. The Japanese government introduced FITs in June 2012. Utilities will now pay ¥42/kWh for solar power, which is twice the tariff ...

"Of course the Government will ensure we put in place a fair and reasonable arrangement around feed-in tariffs, we know how important it is for business in Tasmania," he said. The Tasmanian Greens want solar energy feed-in rates maintained for two years ...

The true cost to consumers of subsidies to solar energy has been 'somewhat exaggerated' , according to energy researchers.        

The brightest places on Earth for renewable energy often have less to do with the weather and more to do with policy support.