Chinese Air Pollution Dimmed Sunlight Enough To Impact Solar Panels
Using a record of solar radiation measurements around China going back to the late 1950s, researchers from ETH Zurich found that China's coal-driven air pollution is significantly reducing the output of solar panels by dimming the Sun. Ars Technica reports: The researchers found that, over the entire record between about 1960
China's air pollution is so bad that solar panels don't work anymore
Solar power is one of the great hopes for clean energy, but in order for solar panels to work, they can't be where the sun doesn't shine. That's why China's efforts to...
Fast Company 2019-07-12
A Solar-Powered Future Is Finally Upon Us
The world's solar future continues to brighten, further and faster than seemed possible only a few years ago. As the price of all types of solar technology goes on falling,...
Truth Dig 2019-07-15
Under new rules for selling solar power, is it still worth it?
Householders keen to install solar panels are weighing up their options after the government unveiled new plans for the way people will be paid for supplying renewable energy. The scheme, which will be launched in January next year, works in a different way to its predecessor – and is likely be less lucrative. With solar photovoltaic (PV) panels – the most popular domestic...
China's investment in renewable energy nosedived by 39% in the first half of 2019 compared with a year earlier as the government's plans to phase out set prices for electricity in favor of market-based systems spooked plant developers. The country saw $28.8 billion invested in new solar and wind projects in the first six months of 2019 in what marks the lowest half-year figure...
How Chinese solar panels could power the future in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, July 4 (Xinhua) -- The Sarti family is no different from a typical family of five living in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires, except for one significant difference: they recently became the first household in the city to supply the local electricity grid with energy produced at home. Earlier this year the Sartis decided to install 12 Chinese-made solar panels....
People Daily
Feature: How Chinese solar panels could power the future in Argentina
Lidl invests €1m in solar panels at Newbridge centre
Lidl has welcomed a grant of planning from Kildare County Council for the installation of energy-saving solar panels at its distribution centre in Newbridge, which is currently under construction. This installation will see an investment of €1 million at this site, adding to the €1m already committed by Lidl to solar power...