Our friends at Solarbuzz.com released their June report today, showing that solar prices have fallen another significant amount in the last month. The progress will need to continue for several more months for solar to get competitive with fossil fuel energy without large governmental support. Industrial PV solar prices fell 1.1% to (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Europe’
Solar price slide accelerates in June, new record low in Europe
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009Price of solar continues to fall in May, record low reached in Europe
Monday, May 4th, 2009
Solarbuzz.com reported this morning that prices for solar modules fell another few pennies per watt. As supply has fully caught up with demand in 2009, prices are skidding down. But since fossil fuel prices remain substantially lower due to the global recession, the price of solar remains relatively high and will take many more months of decreases before grid parity becomes (more…)
Guest post: EU energy policy and the financial crisis
Friday, December 19th, 2008
Below is SET’s first guest post – from our European partners over at Leonardo Energy, a Global web-based Community for Sustainable Energy Professionals. The author, Hans de Keulenaer, is the programme manager of “Electricity & Energy” at the European Copper Institute. Please enjoy our first of many guest posts at SET:
EU energy policy and the financial crisis
The financial crisis will not deter Europe on its course towards a low carbon economy, but it may slow it down. (more…)