March 21st, 2012 | by Stephen Lacey
With panel prices hitting record lows and performance of projects steadily improving, solar photovoltaics have become increasingly attractive to large investors.
March 14th, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan
Some more top cleantech news from the past couple days for you, other than our dozens of stories: 1.
February 17th, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan
Yep, after one full year chock-full of Solyndra investigations, no wrongdoings have been found. (Sound familiar — ahem, “climategate“).
February 17th, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan
Fred Upton (R-MI), House Energy and Commerce Chairman, was one of the leading Republicans who ‘led’ us down the ‘this
February 10th, 2012 | by Silvio Marcacci
An independent review of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) loan guarantee program (LGP) finds that the program is working, but recommends several strategies to better protect government investments from failure.
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
January 26th, 2012 | by Stephen Lacey
What’s the only thing worse than turning a Congressional investigation into a months-long political circus? The leaders of that investigation not having a firm grasp of the policies they’re supposed to be examining. California Republican Darrell Issa chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, one of the top bodies responsible for looking into the loan guarantee to the now-bankrupt solar manufacturer Solyndra. So you’d think that Mr. Issa would, after almost four months of investigation, be able to distinguish the extraordinary differences between a tax credit and a loan guarantee
January 19th, 2012 | by Stephen Lacey
The Koch-funded political advocacy organization Americans for Prosperity is unleashing another multi-million campaign to play up the Solyndra bankruptcy in key election states. After the release of 180,000 pages of documents and months of a heavily-politicized Congressional investigation that included testimony from Energy Secretary Steven Chu, there is still no evidence that the loan guarantee issued to the now-bankrupt solar company Solyndra was a political favor, or that any official in the Administration did anything illegal.
December 30th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
OK, I’m doing my top 10 list now. Following up on AWEA’s top 10 wind energy stories and SEIA’s
December 14th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
Some more good cleantech stories of the pastw week or so: 1. The City 2.0 Wins 2012 TED Prize.
December 1st, 2011 | by Andrew
SolarCity and BoA-Merrill Lynch announced that they have agreed to terms on financing SolarStrong, a billion-plus dollar SolarCity project - the largest in US history - that could double the number of residential solar installations in the US by installing solar power systems on privatized US military housing communities across the country.
November 22nd, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
The global supply of polysilicon is hurtling towards 500,000 tons by 2014, almost doubling today’s supply within 2 years, from
November 20th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
I was holding out on writing yet another Solyndra story, but looks like I’m giving in. Steven Chu, the U.S.
November 13th, 2011 | by Andrew
The NY Times' reporting on the California Solar Valley Ranch project and clean energy subsidies is so full of holes that NRG has issued a point-by-point rebuttal. The NYT article is symptomatic of the ugly, protracted decline of mainstream journalism in the
October 22nd, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
The Obama administration had set a goal, for the public good, of cutting solar costs to $1 a watt installed by 2016. The reason that the Obama Department of Energy invested a half million in backing some of the private VC loans (which totaled $1 billion) to Solyndra was that the company had a way to bring down the cost of solar. The unique solar panel they made was key to this effort. Note that the Solyndra roof (pictured) is quite different from the typical solar roof. That difference is key. Solyndra wasn't just another solar panel manufacturer, making just another thing that could be more cheaply made in China
