Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry
Triple Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Germany will add up to three gigawatts (GW) of solar power capacity this year due to a strong demand in the last part of this year, the head of Germany’s Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft (BSW-Solar) solar industry association announced. Germany is the world leader in photovoltaic (PV) solar panel power, with 5.3 GW installed. The world total [...]
CrunchGear (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sanyo is in the news today, and again it's about the company's green tech power. The company today announced [JP] it will do everything to become Japan's top player in the domestic solar industry by 2012 and eventually one of the top three solar companies on a global level. At the same time, the Nikkei reports [registration required, paid subscription] that Sanyo has succeeded...
Environmental Leader (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
The U.S. solar industry has a bright 2010 ahead of it, with demand on the rise and old factories being converted to solar production. For instance, an idled silicon plant in New York has come online to produce materials for solar cells. Partly driving the uptick in the solar industry is the U.S. federal government’s fast-tracking of [...]
Safehaven (Free subscription) | yesterday
After years of over promising and under delivering, the solar Industry is finally starting to show some interesting developments which have the potential to make solar power as cheap as fossil fuel on a cost-per-watt basis within five years.
P2P Foundation (Free subscription) | yesterday
Via Wired Science, an excerpt on the One Block Off the Grid project: “While researchers have struggled for half a century to push down the cost of solar photovoltaic modules, an innovative web service is creating communities of customers who pay less for solar panels through collective bargaining with installers. One Block Off the Grid collects groups [...]
staffjam | 25/11/2009
After years of over promising and under delivering, the solar Industry is finally starting to show some interesting developments which have the potential to make solar power as cheap as fossil fuel on a cost-per-watt basis within five years. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Getting us to that state, called grid parity,
greenbuildingsNYC (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
The tentative greening of Greater Buffalo was a favorite subject of mine in my early days at gbNYC, mostly because I'm a sucker for underdogs and any good news -- be it about the ultra-moribund Buffalo Bills or an attempt to remake the city as a solar manufacturing hub -- about Greater Buffalo always kind of counts as a man-bites-dog story. The just-reopened Globe Specialty Metals plant in...
SmallCapVoice (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Nov. 24, 2009 (Business Wire) — GWS Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: GWSC) an alternative energy company developing and marketing solar and wind-powered renewable energy products and solutions, announced today that it would begin distribution of the Solaranda(TM) Solar Shade Structure. “The Solaranda is innovative, creative, and just the solution to give the solar...
Solar Energy News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GWS Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: GWSC) an alternative energy company developing and marketing solar and wind-powered renewable energy products and solutions, announced today that it would begin distribution of the Solaranda™ Solar Shade Structure. “The Solaranda is innovative, creative, and just the solution to give the solar...
Environmental Leader (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Already the world leader in solar, Germany expects a record in terms of new solar added this year. And now, with the UK set to adopt a national feed-in tariff, some predict heady growth for solar on the island commonwealth. Germany is expected to add a record 2.5-3 gigawatts of solar capacity this year, said BSW, [...]
Solar Energy News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
TEMPE, Ariz.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq:FSLR), today announced the sale of the 21 megawatt (MW) AC solar energy project it has developed and constructed in Blythe, Calif., to NRG Energy, Inc. Located in Riverside County about 200 miles east of Los Angeles, the Blythe project is California's first and largest utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) solar generation...
Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
First Solar Sells California Solar Power Project to NRG TEMPE, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq:FSLR), today announced the sale of the 21 megawatt (MW) AC solar energy project it has developed and constructed in Blythe, Calif., to NRG Energy, Inc. [...]
alarm:clock (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Cries for recovery in the solar industry should only get stronger as LDK Solar (LDK:NYSE) reported much improved revenues and profits today. The multicrystalline solar wafer manufacturer also reported improved gross margins and operating margins, more signs that the company, and most likely the industry, is distancing itself from the disastrous quarters earlier in...
SeekingAlpha Energy Stocks (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Gregory Pepin submits: LDK Solar ( LDK ), a well known Chinese Solar Company, invested (since summer 2007) in a very ambitious plan that almost cost them their future: Build an in-house Poly Plant to build the polysilicon needs for their Wafer Production. Why that plan? Well, Polysilicon is a major cost component of a Wafer and at the time of the project decision (that the market warmly...
alarm:clock (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
First Solar Sells Largest Photovoltaic Power Plant In California In a move that will generate more cash for the company, First Solar (FSLR:NASDAQ) announced today the sale of their 21MW photovoltaic solar project in Blythe, California to NRG Energy (NRG:NYSE). Terms of the deal were disclosed. Located about 200 miles east of Los Angeles, the Blythe Solar Project will be NRG Energy’s first working...
