Spain Forges Ahead with Low Cost Solar Research
June 10th, 2012 | by Tina Casey
Despite its economic travails, Spain has continued to ramp up its position as a global solar power leader. In the
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Solar Energy Companies Look to Capital Markets for Long-term Financing
February 17th, 2012 | by Andrew
Utilities and independent power producers with ready access to the US bond market are ramping up their project development and ownership activities, and that may open up opportunities for other industry participants to follow suit. Recent developments indicate that institutional investors may have an appetite for solar energy bonds, as well.
Clean Links: Solar, Wind, EV, & Policy News
February 6th, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan
Other than our 60+ stories from the past week, here are a few more noteworthy ones worth a look or
Solar News (10 Stories)
January 25th, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan
Some recent solar energy news we haven’t hit yet: 1. Agendas for the 7th Annual Photovoltaics Summit and 4th Annual Concentrating Solar Thermal Power,
CIGS Thin Film Solar PV Starts 2012 Off on the Good Foot with Solar Frontier-EDF Supply Contract
January 18th, 2012 | by Andrew
2012 may well shape up as a pivotal year for CIGS thin film solar PV technology. Japan's Solar Frontier, the world's largest manufacturer of thin-film CIGS solar PV modules, has closed a deal to supply EDF Energies Nouvelles' enXco with as much as 150-MWp of CIGS modules for use in the latter's 100+ MW Catalina Solar Project in Kern County, California
Cleantech Venture Investments Up 13% in 2011 — Solar the Leader
January 10th, 2012 | by Stephen Lacey
As emerging clean technology companies reach stages of growth that require enormous amounts of deployment capital, investment figures for 2011 reflect that market dynamic. Last year, global corporate and venture capital investments in cleantech grew 13% over 2010, reaching almost $9 billion, according to preliminary figures released from the Cleantech Group. Most of those investments are going to companies that have already picked up one or more rounds of funding, with 85% of dollars flowing into Series B rounds or later. The most stunning increase in activity last year was in mergers and acquisitions, which grew by 154% in 2011. Because it’s often more attractive for cleantech companies to merge with a mature corporate parent rather than go public, the amount of exits in M&A have shot up dramatically.
New Thin-Film Solar Module Efficiency Record Set
December 5th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
Yes, it’s that time again — another solar power efficiency record has been set! The category: thin-film solar module
Ascent Solar’s Flexible CIGS Solar Panels One of TIME’s 50 Best Inventions of 2011
November 25th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
Ascent Solar Technologies develops innovative, lightweight, flexible, thin-film solar photovoltaic modules (that’s a mouthful, I know — read it again). Ascent’s
New Flexible Solar Cell on Plastic Efficiency Record
June 1st, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
Solar records are broken left and right. We can't cover them all, of course, but try to cover the big ones. Recently, researchers ar Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, set a pretty big one. They increased the solar cell efficiency record of flexible solar cells made of copper indium gallium (di)selenide (aka CIGS) from 17.6% to 18.7%, a pretty significant increase
Cleantech Group: Solar Startups See Venture Capital Fall in 2Q
July 2nd, 2009 | by Jennifer Kho
Solar venture investments hit a three-year low in the second quarter, the Cleantech Group said Wednesday. According to Brian Fan,
Cleantech Investment Slowdown Predicted in 2009
January 7th, 2009 | by Jennifer Kho
At first glance, the latest numbers from the Cleantech Group look like terrific news. After all, they conclude that 2008 was
World’s Largest CIGS Thin-Film Solar Array Goes Live
December 4th, 2008 | by Timothy B. Hurst
On occasion, we will write headlines praising developments in things like the ‘the world’s first tidal power turbine‘ or ‘the
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