The end of the moratorium on photovoltaic tariffs, which was decided on last December, is approaching. Yesterday, the Prime Minister announced that manufacturers wishing to build plants on the ground or on larger areas of panels will have to answer calls for tenders. Individuals and small projects will see their tariff reduced by 20% in [...]

Morocco was invited as a guest of honour to the ‘Renewable Energy Exhibition’ in Lyon, the global leader in Energy conventions that gathers hundreds of professionals from the sectors of energy and construction worldwide. A large delegation has travelled to Lyon for the event, including senior officials from the Ministry of Energy, Mines, Water and [...]

The Welsh government has recently embarked on a search to find contractors for the construction of a substantial plan to exploit solar energy in the country. The first phase of the development is said to be worth up to £100 million over the four-year framework agreement. Works will include everything from the fitting of photovoltaic [...]

This project was supposed to be a key element of the national development of renewable energy. Following this announcement, a call for tenders was launched mid-2009. The results were initially expected in the summer. But they were never released. The tender was for the construction by 2011 of a combined capacity exceeding 300 MW. In [...]

Construction for the 12 million euro (16.70 million dollar) project should begin in autumn 2011. For the time being, the construction permit has not been approved by the department of Tarn prefecture because the land is still subject to mining laws. Once started, work should only last nine months. The finished solar power plant will [...]

Subventions on electricity production from solar energy have decreased. The main goal is to slow down the solar panels installation. France backtracks on renewable energies promotion.Renewable energies aren’t popular in France any more, especially for wind and solar energies. After regulations and constraints were applied on wind energy last spring to prevent the territory from [...]

Turkey is home to an ideal climate for wind and solar energy investments, with an average of more than seven hours of sunshine a day and bordering the Aegean, Black and Mediterranean seas. Turkey’s demand for electricity is increasing steadily and Turkish policymakers are eager to decrease the country’s dependence on foreign nations for the gas [...]

The UK’s Energy Technologies Institute is calling on organisations to help solve the energy storage problem of how to keep the lights on with intermittent renewable energy sources.As the country becomes more reliant on solar power and wind, there will be greater need to store energy produced by those means for times of peak demand [...]

Italy’s largest utility Enel last week opened a solar plant, named upon the famous mathematician of Syracuse, Archimedes, boasting new technology that could help Italy partially catch up with more advanced solar markets like Spain. The plant, the first Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) start-up in Italy, located in Siciliy, has a capacity of 5 megawatts [...]

The draft National Renewable Energy Plan of the Ministry of Industry plans to maintain the goal of renewables providing 22.7% of final energy consumption in 2020. To do this, it will be necessary to produce less solar energy and offshore wind than what was planned in the energy mix that was designed in April. Spain [...]