Tag: solar panels

• Saturday, August 17th 2019 - 07:29 UTC

  WTO agrees to a Beijing request for a dispute channel on solar channels and US tariffs

  

  The World Trade Organization agreed on Thursday to China's request to create a dispute panel tasked with judging whether US tariffs on solar panels violate international trade rules. The trade restrictions were imposed by Donald Trump's administration last year, part of a raft of measures initiated by Washington that have triggered a tit-for-tat tariff war between the world's top two economies.

• Friday, October 28th 2016 - 12:23 UTC

  Renewable energy overtakes coal in electricity generation capacity; half a million solar panels installed every day

  

  The International Energy Agency said in its latest report that last year the world's capacity to generate electricity from renewable sources has now overtaken coal, and renewable accounted for more than half of the increase in power capacity.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2013 - 02:23 UTC

  EU and China reach an ‘amicable solution’ on solar panel imports

  

  The European Commission says it has reached “an amicable solution” with Beijing in a row over imports of Chinese solar panels. Both sides have agreed a minimum price for the panels, EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said.

• Friday, July 20th 2012 - 07:59 UTC

  US solar companies can compete with China with a bit of innovation

  

  The US solar industry is undergoing some serious growing pains, with bankruptcies and mergers a necessary part of that process; meanwhile, competition from Chinese solar panels has many believing that American solar simply cannot compete. Not so.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2011 - 23:54 UTC

  Solar energy conference in Chile brings together world experts

  

  Chile, a country where the demand for energy has skyrocketed over the past decade, experts are gathering to discuss another answer to Latin America’s increasing energy needs: solar power.

• Wednesday, June 15th 2011 - 21:53 UTC

  French giant oil group Total invests heavily in solar energy

  

  French oil and gas giant Total completed its 1.3 billion US dollars tender offer to buy a controlling 60% stake in SunPower, a California provider of solar power systems, the two companies announced Wednesday.