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Solar energy articles from the PES, renewable energy magazine and website.
Fight is on to retain key members of staff as competition increases
Gavin Brown, Reward Information Consultant at global management consultancy Hay Group, tells PES why companies are worried about retaining talent in the renewable energy sector with an increasing number of managers in the renewable energy sector worrying about holding on to their best talent...
While other areas in our national economies are battening down the hatches and having to rethink their reward levels, the renewable energy sector is still enjoying the benefits of being in its relative infancy and so HR departments are having to deal with a very different problem - the need to increase reward for their best staff. A recent survey carried out by Hay Group showed that the reward packages on offer in the renewable energy sector were defying the rest of the
Solar / PV roundtable
PES is proud to present our first roundtable interview, in which the great and good of the solar/PV community debate and discuss the burning issues of the moment. We're delighted to have secured access to some of the sector's foremost thinkers, and are sure you'll be engaged and illuminated by what they've got to say.
Contributors:
Paula Mints
Director, Energy Practice, Navigant Consulting
Evelyn Butler
Director, Business Strategy & Analysis, Energy Sector, Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
Carsten Busch
Industry Segment Manager Solar / Head of Profit Center
PV power-shift – will Europe’s FiT cuts play into America’s hands?
As the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus once memorably observed: "Everything is in a state of flux." If a modern-day proof of this axiom were required, we need look no further than the renewable energy industry where it looks like a paradigm shift - involving the US and Europe - is about to take place ...
From the outset the industry has always been controversial - a sector led as much by political machinations as it is from the economic effects of supply and demand. Coupled with seemingly ever-increasing global requirements for low carbon energy sources and fears surrounding damage to the environment caused by over-consumption of fossil fuels, governments in the developed world have made proactive efforts on behalf of the renewable energy industr
Spanish rendezvous for great and good of PV industry
All eyes in the industry will shortly be on the 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition taking place from 6-10 September at the Feria Valencia fairground in Spain. Here PES presents its exclusive preview of the event which could not have come at a more crucial time for the industry.
This year's PV Industry Exhibition will spread over eight large exhibition halls at the Feria Valencia fairground, covering an exhibition area of 80,000 sq m.
Following requests, the exhibition area has been further extended this year compared to 65,000 sq m in Hamburg last year, to accommodate more than 950 exhibitors from around the world. Manufacturers and suppliers of PV production equipment and materials will account for some 40 per cent whi
Producing 100 per cent of the energy while expending 50 per cent less silicon and energy
Sustainability is at the heart of how business is carried out at Sovello, the German-based company, Romy Haase-Dotschko their spokesman says. Now one of the world's largest module manufactures, their STRING RIBBON wafers are produced through an economically and ecologically-balanced production process. "That's how we preserve our environment over the long term," he adds ...
Romy goes on: "It‘s what makes the effectiveness of our modules stand out. It comes from a high level of efficiency and the world's shortest energy payback time compared to products of its kind made by other manufacturers (1.25 years based on our own value creation).
"At our location, we have already produced more than a million modules. Our
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