Renewable Energy News

Here’s a different type of solar road idea. A new light-emitting cement “charged” by the power of the sun could light up roads at night, all night and for many, many years – no batteries or solar cells required.

While glow-in-the-dark materials certainly aren’t new; they are mostly made with plastic and degrade in just a few years through the action of the sun’s ultra-violet rays.

8.9 million megawatt hours of electricity was generated or displaced by small scale renewable sources such as rooftop solar power systems in Australia during 2015.

According to a recent report from the nation’s Clean Energy Regulator, 188, 902 small scale systems were installed last year. While this was lower than 2014, average small-scale solar panel system capacity increased to 4.9 kilowatts from 4.4 kilowatts in 2014. This is almost double the average system capacity compared to 2011.

JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq:JASO) has announced it has commenced solar panel production at the company’s newest module manufacturing facility in Xingtai, Hebei province, China.

Located in Xingtai City, the facility has an annual production capacity of 1.5 GW. The new factory features fully automated assembly lines and will produce 60- and 72-cell modules; mostly using JA Solar’s high-efficiency PERCIUM cells.

Burgeoning solar projects offer opportunities for out-of-work rig hands, roustabouts and pipe fitters.

A few years ago, Sean and Stormy Fravel were riding the oil and gas boom like so many others in West Texas. But when their jobs disappeared along with $100-a-barrel oil prices, they turned to a new type of energy occupation: solar power.

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