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- Solyndra Proves Creative Solar Designs Are a Hit With Investors
- An innovative rooftop solar design for that looks like a cross between a row of fluorescent tube lights and a traditional solar panel, made by a startup called Solyndra, is receiving an avalance of support from private investors, and marks what may be a big industry trend for the future....
- Blog posts 2009-01-02
- BrightSource and Edison Bring Back Big Solar
- Big Solar didn't stay away for very long. While the recession had a dampening effect on plans for large installations of wind, solar and other alternative energy forms, including pushing back groundbreaking on T. Boone Picken's wind farm and likely delaying the world's largest solar panel installation, solar thermal startup...
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- Many Solar Companies Won't Survive the Recession
- It's hard to imagine a solar panel manufacturer having to use every available inch of their warehouse and production facility, clearing space to stack unsold panels all the way to the roof. But that's the picture a new Lux Research report is painting. Demand for solar panels is expected to...
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- First Solar and Fotowatio Reap the Recession's Benefits
- The beginning of 2009 is proving an active and not at all disappointing period for solar power, with changes will no doubt shape the industry's future. This Monday, that meant the takeover of swathes of the utility-scale market for solar panels by First Solar and the Spanish company Fotowatio. ...
- Blog posts 2009-03-03
- Sharp Widens the Market for Solar Panels
- Solar panels tend to be demanding devices. They're a certain shape rectangular, need to be put on roofs on particular configurations and have to face the sun at specific angles. So not only does it take a professional installer to place them, they also just don't make sense for some...
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Why Arizona's Solar-Powered Train Won't Work
- Another day, another proposal for a multi-billion dollar rail line in the United States. An Arizona company called Solar Bullet wants to build a 220 mile-per-hour train from Tucson to Phoenix, a journey of about 115 miles. Aside from the whopping $27 billion price tag for just the first phase,...
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Schools Line Up to Install Solar Panels
- Schools in our society seem to be perennially cash-strapped, unable to spend extra on frills even if they might make the educational experience better. So it's somewhat surprising that more and more schools are lining up for solar power, some in multi-million dollar deals. The most recent...
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Suntech Signs Up For Huge Chinese Solar Projects
- Suntech, which likes to bill itself as the "world's largest crystalline silicon photovoltaic manufacturer," has raised its already ambitious sights to a new high. According to a company press release sent out this morning, it plans to build a set of four projects in China totaling 1.8 gigawatts of electricity,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- SunRun Gears Up For National Expansion With Funding
- Solar panel installation and servicing is a good business to be in right now, especially if you've got a head start. SunRun has that start in California, and is looking to secure it in other states with a new $18 million investment led by Accel Partners, a prominent venture firm....
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Solar Panel Inventories Begin Taking Their Toll
- Warnings that an over-supply of solar panels will hurt the solar industry, repeated by industry watchers for the past several months, have finally been fully realized with a massive $217 million second quarter loss for LDK Solar, one of the most prominent silicon wafer manufacturers. The loss was double what...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Spray-On Solar? Don't Bet On It Yet
- The latest "cool" solar story is out and making the rounds. This time, it's solar cells that you can spray on to any surface, like just like spray-can paint. Innovalight The University of Texas at Austin, Tex. says it could have this new technology out in three to five...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- On Rooftops, A Newly Attractive Form of Solar Power
- It may not be attractive to your pocketbook, but at least it'll look slick: Dow Chemical has unveiled a new solar rooftop shingle that converts the sun's rays to electricity. The shingles work just like solar panels, but without the bulky and ugly mounting systems used to attach panels to...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
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- First Solar's Utility Contracts Pass Production Capacity
- Thin-film solar panel maker First Solar now has a second giant utility contract totaling 550 megawatts, a deal it announced today with the utility Southern California Edison. Together with the 550MW installation on California's Carrizo Plain that First Solar inherited when it bought Optisolar, the company now...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- First Solar Snags Rival Solyndra's Top Scientist
- Top panel maker First Solar just scored an important prestige hire, according to Greentech Media, luring away the chief scientist of Solyndra, a large startup with a different technology but similar market. The researcher, Markus Beck, helped create Solyndra's distinctive tube-shaped solar arrays. Both First Solar and...
- Blog posts 2009-01-16
- Report: Solar Costs Are Falling
- Costs for solar installations for houses and large buildings are falling, and the trend is expected to continue. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has a new report out this morning detailing the reduction between 2007 and 2008, as well as providing some interesting and sometimes surprising data points. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- PG&E Agrees to Grab Headlines With Space Solar Deal
- Today's hot news story is one that surely inspired cackles of glee at the marketing department for Pacific Gas & Electric, the utility that is taking all comers in hopes of meeting a potential requirement of 33 percent renewable energy by 2020. I mention marketing and not, say, business development,...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Global Solar Hits a New Efficiency Milestone
- Efficiency announcements come with a kind of calming regularity from thin-film solar panel companies, spurred not so much these days by internecine conflict as the desire to prove they're still viable competitors to silicon-based panels. The latest to trot out numbers is Global Solar, which has reached 15.4 percent efficiency...
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- Does JA Solar's Bounce Mark a Bottom For the Solar Sector?
- Following a reported loss yesterday of more than three times what analysts were estimating, JA Solar shot up almost 25 percent today on a lone analyst's upgrade from "Neutral" to "Buy", Forbes reports. The analyst, John Hardy of Broadpoint, thinks that the dismal demand levels that led to JA's loss...
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Week in Renewables: Neglected Nuclear, Falling Winds, Solar Redemption
- Should, or should not nuclear energy be considered a renewable? That's more of a long-running question than a news item from this week, but Department of Energy head Steven Chu did take the opportunity last Friday to again throw his weight behind nukes, saying that the government...
- Blog posts 2009-09-27
- Smaller Solar Farms Ease, Speed Development
- Utility scale solar power plants generally follow one maxim: Bigger is better. Many of the plants being planned -- but not yet built -- range from hundreds of megawatts in size up to multiple gigawatts, covering massive swathes of land to equal the output of coal plants. ...
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
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