Photovoltaic not only produces savings in the energy consumption part of your utility bill. Peak shaving is a term that begins to listen and that helps to understand another way through which the photovoltaic is able to allow us to save in utility bills. While everyone understands that installing solar panels on your roof can […]
Solar panels on bus stops and other renewable stories
The largest solar plants in the world, PV panels in bus stop in London and other news on Renewable Energy In this post we wanted to bring you the latest and most important news in the field of solar and wind energy. In the first part we will talk about two different projects that give […]
Solar energy cheaper
Solar energy is converted into one of the cheapest and is positioned to exercise hegemony in price in the coming years A report this week by Fraunhofer ISE, the largest research institute of solar energy in the world, delves into the study of the cost of solar energy in different regions of the world. The […]
II Solar Spanish Forum: Illusion despite the worst self-consumption law in the world
The Spanish solar sector claims a fair law for the development of self-consumption and the return of legal certainty Chronicle Tienda-Solar. On 3 and 4 November it took place in Madrid the second Spanish Solar Forum organized by UNEF, photovoltaic association. They were two days of debates in which the sector has been able to share […]
It has been created a Calculator that will tell the photovoltaic producers what exact revenue they will collect
PRESS RELEASE. The calculator comes to solve the chaos generated after the Electricity Reform, translating to detail the interpretation by the Ministerial Order IET 1045/2014 for each PV system. The mysterious invention of the Valencian company Tienda Solar, Broken down into a detailed remuneration report per year from the beginning to the end of the […]
Renewable at war with utilities
A few days ago we had breakfast with that renewable associations raised the ‘Fabra report’ to the CNMC to put pressure on utilities. The disagreements that come from far, have gone from a previous state of “cold war” to the current open conflict. Everything starts with the growth of renewable energy in Spain when grabbing […]
UNSTOPPABLE SOLAR POWER GROWS WORLDWIDE
2014 closed with 177 GW of photovoltaic power installed worldwide. This year alone 38.7 GW were installed, confirming the trend of unstoppable growth in the last 10 years. To give us an idea, 38.7 GW is more than 120 million photovoltaic solar panels installed only in 2014. More than 300,000 photovoltaic panels are installed every […]
PWM or MPPT solar controller
It is the device found in every solar power system that ensures batteries can be load based on the power generated by photovoltaic solar panels. That is, it is connected between the solar panels and batteries and controls charging thereof. Therefore it is also called the solar controller or solar charger. In any installation containing […]
How a domestic solar power installation works
Learn easily how a solar kit works To understand how solar energy works as a domestic first explain traditional electrical installation works. In any of our houses in the city, the electric company gives us access to your mains, after passing through the meter for electricity supply us with very defined characteristics, AC power (AC) […]