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Will the Sun Set on Canadian Solar's Market Strategy?
The Company: Canadian Solar, a seller of solar-cell and photovoltaic-module products for residential and commercial applications, principally in Europe. The Filing: Form F-3 Registration Statement filed on July 14 with the SEC. The Finding: Canadian Solar said Monday that it shipped about 47 megawatts of solar...
Tags: Strategy, Sun Microsystems Inc., SEC, Photovoltaics, Financing, Working Capital, mW, Canadian Solar, Manufacturing, Managerial Accounting, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, David Phillips
Blog posts 2008-07-15
Solar Industry Attacks Fossil Fuel Lobbies Head On, Launches Bill of Rights
The kick off speech for the Solar Power International 2009 convention on Tuesday could have been mistaken for a UC Berkeley plaza circa the '60s . In a rallying speech Rhone Resch, President and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association SEIA, attacked the oil and coal lobbies...
Tags: Industry, coal, Fossil Fuel
News items 2009-10-27
Report: The dark side of solar
Solar cells may generate clean green electricity but manufacturing them involves a witches brew of toxic chemicals that could harm the environment if millions of solar panels end up in landfills, according to a report issued Wednesday by the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. The California environmental group is calling for...
News items 2009-08-07
GT Solar Not Immune to Solar Cycles
The Company: GT Solar International, a global provider of ingot casting furnaces and solar-grade silicon reactors. The Filing: Form S-1/A Registration Statement filed on July 23 with the SEC. The Finding: GT Solar Holdings, LLC, sold 30.3 million shares of its stake in GT...
Tags: Silicon, Photovoltaics, Kilogram, Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Sales Strategy, Hardware, Sales, David Phillips
Blog posts 2008-07-25
Rising Oil Prices Eclipse Weak Solar Industry Fundamentals
As crude oil futures cross the $72 a barrel mark, advocates of solar energy are trumpeting an industry turnaround across the photovoltaic supply chain. But judging from comments by chief executive Tom Zarrella of GT Solar, a supplier of fabrication equipment, a rebound in customer demand is unlikely to occur...
Tags: Value Chain, Photovoltaics, Kilogram, Customer, Eclipse, Manufacturing, Channel Management, Marketing, David Phillips
Blog posts 2009-06-16
Solar Breaks Oil Price Dependence
Dr. Duru submits: On July 13, 2008, I worried that skepticism in the high price of oil, as demonstrated by the surge in short interest in USO, would translate into a further sell-off for solar stocks. While oil topped at that time, solar stocks experienced a resurgence. Earnings news...
Tags: Energy, Ascent Solar Technologies Inc., Energy Conversion Devices Inc., Evergreen Solar Inc., First Solar Inc., SunPower Corp., MEMC Electronic Materials Inc.
External links 2008-09-01
Solar Tax Credit Hooks Another Major Utility
The solar investment tax credit is turning out to be the bait the industry needs to keep money flowing in an economy running short on investors willing to fund renewable energy projects. When the federal tax incentives package was passed last October, which included the solar investment...
Tags: Renewable Energy, PG&E Corp., Solar Energy, Tax Credit, Utility, mW, Investment Tax Credit, Taxes, Personal Finance, Telecom & Utilities, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Kirsten Korosec
Blog posts 2009-02-26
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...
Tags: Solar Panel, Roof, Solar Energy, The Dow Chemical Co., Costs, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2009-10-07
Dow Unveils Solar Shingles
Dow Chemical has unveiled a residential roof shingle in the form of a solar panel designed to be integrated into asphalt-tiled roofs. Jane Palmieri, managing director of Dow's Solar Solutions unit, said the Powerhouse thin-film shingle slashes installation costs because it can installed by a roofer who is already building...
Tags: The Dow Chemical Co., Solar Panel
News items 2009-10-07
Solar in the Developing World: Potential and Pessimism
Amongst the seminars with titles like "The Real Value of Distributed Generation," and "Innovations in Inverters and System Controllers," at Solar Power International, one stood out as perhaps having a little more interest to the general reader: "Solar Opportunities in the Developing World." As anyone who has ever looked into...
Tags: Photovoltaics, Solar Energy, Electricity
News items 2009-10-28
China Solar Panel Maker Sets First U.S. Plant
By Adam Aston President Barack Obama at the Nellis Air Force Base solar power site, with Col. Howard Belote and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) John Locher-Pool/Getty Images China's Suntech Power Holdings STP is no newcomer to the U.S. Last May, President Barack Obama toured the U.S.'s largest solar...
Tags: U.S., Solar Panel
News items 2009-11-16
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...
Tags: mW, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2009-02-24
Water Use by Solar Projects Intensifies
The West's water wars are likely to intensify with Pacific Gas and Electric's announcement Monday that the utility will buy 500 megawatts of electricity from two solar power plant projects to be built in the California desert. The Genesis Solar Energy Project would consume an estimated 536 million gallons of...
Tags: California, Developer, California Energy Commission, Abengoa S.A.
News items 2009-10-27
China's solar making gains in West
In an effort to boost market share, China's largest solar panel manufacturer, Suntech, is selling solar panels in the United States at below the cost of materials, assembly and shipping, Shi Zhengrong, the company's chief executive and founder, told the Times. Solar companies in the West, meanwhile, are facing a...
Tags: U.S., Solar Panel
News items 2009-08-27
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....
Tags: Risk, Solar Panel, Investor, Solyndra, Greentech Media, Financial Accounting, Finance, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2009-01-02
Solar power may speed up cell phone revolution
KAMPALA/HONG KONG - Watching his sons kick around a makeshift ball made from tightly bound plastic bags, Ugandan handyman Jackson Mawa marvels at the way business has improved since he bought a solar-powered mobile phone. "I am self-employed. Sometimes people call me and they find my cell phone is off....
Tags: Phone, Cell Phone
News items 2009-10-14
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