Tag: solar panels

• Sunday, November 10th 2024 - 15:09 UTC

  Better wool quality from grazing sheep among solar panels, shows experience in Australian green farm

  

  Sheep grazing close to a solar farm among its panels seems to even improve the quality of wool, a new study has found. The study is based on the results of a second round of wool testing at the Wellington solar farm, in New South Wales, which has shared its site with 1,700 merino sheep for the past three years.

• Monday, June 17th 2024 - 19:58 UTC

  Argentina to remove solar panels Tuesday, weather permitting

  

  Argentina's Navy will remove the solar panels mistakenly placed in Chilean territory after President Gabriel Boric Font warned that his country would take action if Buenos Aires failed to comply at the earliest time possible.

• Monday, June 17th 2024 - 10:23 UTC

  Argentina installs solar panels in Chilean territory by mistake

  

  Argentina's Ambassador to Santiago Jorge Faurie admitted his country had made a mistake when solar panels were placed three meters into Chilean territory in Tierra del Fuego, which triggered a diplomatic incident between the two countries.

• 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.