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- 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
- Optisolar is Dead For Now — Who's Next?
- Optisolar, a company that likely scored in the top five list of most promising thin-film startups for many solar industry watchers, appears to be out for the count. Having sold its project portfolio to First Solar, it has now closed its factories and settled back in hopes of attracting a...
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
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- Xantrex(TM) Receives US$1.9 Million Order for Solar Inverters From OptiSolar
- Xantrex Technology Inc. (TSX: XTX) announced today it has received an order valued at approximately US$1.9 million from OptiSolar, Inc. This initial order from OptiSolar is for Xantrex's 500 kilowatt kW medium voltage commercial solar grid-tie inverters (GT500MV). The Xantrex GT500MV solar inverters will be deployed at the Sarnia Ontario...
- Research articles 2008-06-09
- First Solar Buys OptiSolar's Power Projects in Major Coup
- Greentech Media submits: By Ucilia Wang First Solar FSLR is spending $400 million to scoop up the solar energy projects being developed by OptiSolar, which has had trouble raising money to carry out the projects and recently fired half of its staff. by Greentech Media
- External links 2009-03-03
- Roundup: The New Coda, Texas Kills Solar Bill, First Solar Investigated and More
- Coda unveils cheaper electric car -- Cheap, when it comes to electric cars, is a highly subjective label. At a price of $45,000, the Coda, an all-electric car by an eponymous company owned by Miles Electric with a range of about 100 miles, will be half the price of a...
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Energy Roundup: Total Stalls Oil Sands Project, Exxon's $129 Billion Plan, and More
- Total suspends Canadian oil sands pilot project -- Coaxing oil out of the Canadian oil sands is getting a bit too expensive for some of the world's largest energy companies. Totalrecently suspended one of its pilot projects because it did not hit the expected 10,000 barrels of oil a day production mark. Paris-based...
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Game Changer in Solar Energy: PG&E Inks Deal
- Trader Mark submits: We have quite the huge announcement from Sunpower SPWR, Optisolar and PG&E PCG after hours. This is a long term game changer if the utilities themselves decide to go solar as opposed to individual and corporations. Sadly our Congress still sits on their hands on the renewable...
- External links 2008-08-15
- With Help from California, Solar Gets Fired Up
- Kelvin Schulle submits: My home state of California has been in the solar industry's spotlight in recent years. Our Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, adopted a well-publicized plan to embrace renewable energy in the sunshine state. Based on this plan the State's 20% electricity has to come from renewable sources by 2013....
- External links 2008-08-18
- Clean Tech Roundup: New Funding for SolarReserve, SoloPower, Poet
- [Via StrategyEye]: SolarReserve, a heliostatic solar thermal provider based in Santa Monica, Calif., has raised $140 million in a second funding round by Citi Alternative Investments, Sustainable Development Investments, Good Energies, US Renewables Group, PCG Clean Energy & Technology Fund, Nimes Capital and Credit Suisse. SolarReserve says it will use...
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- NRG and eSolar Join a Growing List of Utility-Scale Solar Projects
- Plans to create massive solar farms in southwestern states are multiplying, with companies that were tiny startups only a year or two ago promising to supply electricity for tens of thousands of homes and businesses. The latest, announced yesterday, is NRG Energy, a New Jersey-based utility, making a deal for...
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- San Jose's Cleantech Officer on Renewables, Recession and the Stimulus
- While San Francisco's mayor Gavin Newsom gets plenty of attention -- often national -- for his renewable energy initiatives, an equally large city just to the south, San Jose, has been outspoken in its own quiet way. What that means is that it often aims its message at businesses, rather...
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- The Cleantech Crunch Is On
- The cleantech crunch is on. And a few juicy tidbits are coming to light.Optisolar - Crunched. Several 9 figures into it, what do we find? The only thing of real value are the development deals in a post subsidy boom year. Is it a "financial market" issue? Only if manufacturing...
- External links 2009-03-29
- Iberdrola Renewables and Sempra Generation Each Planning 300MW of Clean Energy
- Another 600 megawatts of power from the sun and wind could be coursing through power lines by next year, if the plans of two major companies, Iberdrola Renewables and Sempra Generation, are successful in their plans. Iberdrola is suffering through a rough patch, having just told investors that its...
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Solar Development to Speed Up Next Year
- The United States government has finally decided to help lift some of the bureaucratic hassles involved with renewable energy, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced yesterday. The Bureau of Land Management, historically a somewhat obscure regulator, will work to expedite approval for over a dozen major solar projects on...
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- 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
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