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Ikea to Sell Home Solar Panels in All British Stores Within a Year
2013-09-30 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The Swedish furniture retailer Ikea will begin selling residential solar panels in its 17 UK stores within the next 10 months. The basic package's $9,500 price tag will include 18 panels, installation, design consultation, energy monitoring, and maintenance. With energy savings and current green energy subsidies in the UK, consumers should typically earn as much as $1,244 per year and break even within about seven years, Ikea said. Great Britain's heavily subsidized green energy market is smaller...
SEIA Offers Industry Proposal to End U.S-China Solar Dispute
2013-09-30 17:05:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
With no end in sight to the ongoing solar trade dispute between the United States and China, the Solar Energy Industries Association is offering an industry compromise between the U.S. and Chinese solar industries, which could serve as the centerpiece for a fair, negotiated settlement of outstanding issues, benefit end users, and encourage the proliferation of solar energy in the United States and globally. read more
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Ikea to sell solar panels in UK stores
2013-09-30 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Ikea is to sell solar panels at its British stores for the first time in an attempt to tap growth in the heavily subsidised green energy market. The world's biggest furniture retailer, best known for cheap basics such as its Billy bookcases and Ektorp sofas, plans to offer solar panel packages at all of its 17 British stores within the next 10 months. Ikea said the move follows a successful pilot project at its Lakeside store to the east of London, which sells one photovoltaic (PV) system almost...
China to offer tax breaks to solar power manufacturers
2013-09-30 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China's Ministry of Finance announced it will offer tax breaks to manufacturers of solar power products on Sunday, as China moves to support an industry still struggling to deal with massive overcapacity and weak demand. The ministry said in a short statement on its website that producers of solar power products will receive immediate refunds of 50 percent of value-added taxes. The National Development and Reform Commission provided subsidies for solar power stations in late August. "China's bloated...
Solar power's moment under the Indian sun
2013-09-30 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just said that humans are the largest contributors to climate change. Developing nations have for long been accused of emitting greenhouse gases, and with this, pressure on India to reduce emissions is going to mount further. But the country is, in a small way, doing its mite. Solar is today what IT was a decade ago. From Punjab, and Gujarat to Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, state governments are betting their shirts on solar power. Over the last...
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