Earthbook – The earth goes online
How can the controversial issues of global warming, environmental and wildlife conservation and renewable energy come together in a...
Decentralized Battery Storage as a Solution
Storage systems can help increase self-consumption and relieve the power distribution grid with decentralized systems offering numerous advantages.
Why Photovoltaics in 3 1/2 Minutes
A short film about how we benefit from photovoltaics supplying the worldwide energy demand.
Off-grid systems for India
Workers who earn only a few Euros a day and managers who stay in hotels for a couple hundred Euros...
BRE – the UK’s best kept sustainable secret
After a recent inspirational visit to the BRE Innovation Park in Watford, UK, I thought that the PV industry would...
PV Farms Instead of Power Outages
In January, Norbert Röttgen (Federal Minister for the Environment) remarked that “the more solar energy there is, the greater the...
Photovoltaics in the Crosshairs – The Real Reasons behind the Planned Cuts in Germany
The air is getting thinner for the major players of the conventional energy industry in Germany – their once stable...
"At the Playground with Radiation Detectors"
Makiko Hayashi-Witolla is a native Japanese living in Luxembourg. She learns firsthand about the effects that the March 2011 tsunami...
Hollywood A-listers join the solar revolution
Over recent years, it appears that many celebrities are jumping on the eco-bandwagon. As going green becomes more chic, celebrities...
Development of Solar Power will only Marginally Increase Electricity Prices
Günther Cramer, SMA Chairman of the Supervisory Board, on the construction of PV plants in 2011, the discussion surrounding further...