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10 Greentech Startups Vying for Cash on the East Coast
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What do 10 young companies building technologies as varied as fuel cells, solar manufacturing, battery subscription services, and coal gasification technology all have in common? They’re all finalists for the Ignite Clean Energy business plan competition in Massachusetts, and on Tuesday they will be competing for ...1 day ago -
Applied Materials Buying Advent Solar Assets, Cheap
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Chip equipment maker Applied Materials announced this afternoon that it is acquiring 7-year-old startup Advent Solar. Applied’s solar acquisition investments now total more than $1 billion , including $330 million for Italy’s Baccini and $483 million for Swiss solar wafer equipment company HCT Shaping Systems. ...4 days ago -
Solar Concerns Turn from Credit Crunch to Price Plunge
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One year ago, two key trends dominated the solar industry: economic uncertainty and scarce credit. If solar companies were to survive, they needed to scramble to adapt their strategies to both. Today, the economy is more stable and credit is freer, and so the industry faces two different trends. The first — a supply ...5 days ago -
Solar Concerns Turn from Credit Crunch to Price Plunge
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One year ago, two key trends dominated the solar industry: economic uncertainty and scarce credit. If solar companies were to survive, they needed to scramble to adapt their strategies to both. Today, the economy is more stable and credit is freer, and so the industry faces two different trends. The first — a supply ...5 days ago -
Eastern Washington Goes Solar
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The days of coal being used as the main power source in Upper Kittitas County are coming to an end, thanks to plans for a large solar installation just four miles northeast of the Cle Elum city limits. It’s to be built on 580 acres of logged timberland.The Teanaway Solar Reserve was proposed by businessman [...]This ...5 days ago -
First Solar Buys Ausra Solar Project; PG&E Power Purchase Deal Is Off
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Ausra, the solar thermal startup backed by Kleiner Perkins and Khosla Ventures, said today it is selling its Carrizo Energy Solar Farm project, a proposed 177MW project still under development, to industry giant First Solar. Sale of the project, which is in San Luis Obispo, Calif., represents part of a major strategy ...6 days ago -
First Solar Buys Ausra Solar Project; PG&E Power Purchase Deal Is Off
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Ausra, the solar thermal startup backed by Kleiner Perkins and Khosla Ventures, said today it is selling its Carrizo Energy Solar Farm project, a proposed 177MW project still under development, to industry giant First Solar. Sale of the project, which is in San Luis Obispo, Calif., represents part of a major strategy ...6 days ago -
Why Solar Power Needs a Manufacturing Revolution, Not Just New Materials
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“Inventing disruptive manufacturing innovations is every bit as hard as inventing new materials,” says Frank van Mierlo, President and co-founder of 1366 Technologies. Solar power, if it’s going to compete on cost with coal and other fossil fuels, needs both. It’s on that premise that 1366, a developer of new ...1 week ago -
Why Solar Power Needs a Manufacturing Revolution, Not Just New Materials
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“Inventing disruptive manufacturing innovations is every bit as hard as inventing new materials,” says Frank van Mierlo, President and co-founder of 1366 Technologies. Solar power, if it’s going to compete on cost with coal and other fossil fuels, needs both. It’s on that premise that 1366, a developer of new ...1 week ago -
Taking a Tip from Floor Tiles: Solarmation Makes Concentrating Solar More Modular
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Concentrating photovoltaic technologies, which magnify sunlight and direct it onto solar cells, hold potential to increase the efficiency of a solar-power system. But several analysts — including Jenny Chase, head of solar research at New Energy Finance — say that CPV is likely to be more expensive than ...1 week ago -
Taking a Tip from Floor Tiles: Solarmation Makes Concentrating Solar More Modular
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Concentrating photovoltaic technologies, which magnify sunlight and direct it onto solar cells, hold potential to increase the efficiency of a solar-power system. But several analysts — including Jenny Chase, head of solar research at New Energy Finance — say that CPV is likely to be more expensive than ...1 week ago -
Protect Your Family From Energy Failure
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Home owners are precise being afraid about how their energy costs module increase.They are due to process every year without an end in sight. How broad strength electricity be decade or note years from now? Not exclusive are our energy needs crescendo at a unceasing pace, but supplying the underway domestic energy ...1 week ago -
GE Puts Wind Converter to Work for Solar
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As utilities start to build large solar projects and solar power makes up an increasingly larger portion of the electricity mix, integrating this energy into the grid will be a challenge. Solar, like wind, is intermittent — power from the sun fluctuates when clouds pass overhead and wind doesn’t blow consistently. ...1 week ago -
Rooftop Solar Isn’t Just for Photovoltaics Anymore
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Think of rooftop solar and you likely envision photovoltaic panels. But a group of solar startups are working to put concentrating solar-thermal systems – more commonly seen in large solar projects in the desert – on roofs too. One such startup, San Jose, Calif.-based Chromasun , unveiled its first collector at ...1 week ago -
Turnkey Thin-Film Solar Gear Is a Misnomer: Masdar PV CEO
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Companies like Applied Materials and Oerlikon are building businesses out of selling so-called “turnkey” (ready to use) thin-film solar manufacturing equipment to would-be solar developers. The idea is that instead of developing the technology itself, a solar maker can just buy the gear and start churning out ...1 week ago -
First Solar Adds to Solar Investors’ Concerns
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Its looking like the solar industry may be heading back into a not-so-sunny period, at least as far as corporate earnings are concerned.First, SunPower indicated last week that its 2009 revenue would be weaker than many investors had expected, sparking a selloff that has since stripped 24 percent from the stock’s ...1 week ago -
First Solar Adds to Solar Investors’ Concerns
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Its looking like the solar industry may be heading back into a not-so-sunny period, at least as far as corporate earnings are concerned. First, SunPower indicated last week that its 2009 revenue would be weaker than many investors had expected, sparking a selloff that has since stripped 24 percent from the ...1 week ago -
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Renewables to Overtake Energy Incumbents Within Decade
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is no stranger to controversy. The environmental lawyer and president of the Waterkeeper Alliance served jail time in 2001 for trespassing after joining a protest at a U.S. Navy training facility in Puerto Rico , and wrote an article in Rolling Stone claiming the 2004 U.S. presidential election ...1 week ago -
PHOTOS: What’s Hot At Solar Power International 2009
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The good thing about the Solar Power International show is that every year it’s packed with companies showing off the latest solar tech advances, like prototypes of cutting edge thin film material and lightening quick robots that can stack solar panels. That’s also the difficult part: the massive three-room show ...2 weeks ago -
Solar Industry Attacks Fossil Fuel Lobbies Head On, Launches Bill of Rights
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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 for actively discrediting the ...2 weeks ago
