Clean energy experts speaking at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance annual conference being held in New York believe that yieldcos are on track to become a $100 billion market — not bad, considering that yieldcos are a clean-energy financing model that didn’t exist three years ago. Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) … [continued]
Some top clean electricity reading for your Tuesday (& more?) pleasure: Solar America’s Top Solar Cities Rankings Might Surprise You (Also: Top 10 Cities For Solar Power) Vivint Solar Employee Sent to ‘Casual’ Roundtable Meeting Gets a Shock Colorado Utility To Bring Solar Power To Low-Income Families Yingli Solar Profits Rise 53.4% in 2014, Ships Over 3.3 … [continued]
During Modi’s recent visit to Paris, India and France signed a memorandum of understanding to expand cooperation in the fields of solar and other renewable energies. The memorandum was signed between the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and France’s Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy. France is eyeing major cooperation with … [continued]
From solar eclipse to solar leader: new report on global utility scale solar investment highlights US investors NRG Energy, MidAmerican.
Originally published on Solar Love. One of the top solar energy companies in the world, SunPower, is close to completing what will be the “world’s largest solar power plant” in Southern California, according to recent reports. The 579 megawatt (MW) Solar Star project is now mostly online, and is on … [continued]
American solar PV manufacturer SunPower has posted impressive growth in its 2014 fourth quarter earnings report, up nearly double to $1,164.2 million. And unlike competitor (and possible future yieldco partner) First Solar, SunPower’s shares have maintained the bump they saw following the yieldco announcement through its earnings reporting. SunPower announced its 2014 fourth … [continued]
American solar PV manufacturer First Solar announced its 2014 fourth quarter financial earnings Tuesday, and despite revealing an increase in net sales of $119 million, the company still saw its shares fall 1% in after-hours trading. Which all goes to show what any business or finance major will tell you — … [continued]
Two of the largest solar energy companies in the world, First Solar and SunPower Corporation, are partnering up to form a joint yieldCo vehicle, according to a press release just sent to CleanTechnica. The two companies are apparently still in the advanced stages of negotiations, so the deal isn’t set … [continued]
Maybe one of the most interesting things Sunverge Energy CEO and co-founder Ken Munson told me when I sat down to interview him was Sunverge’s philosophy of serving the needs of the grid and those of the energy consumer at the same time. “Many energy storage technologies are single purpose. … [continued]
Support our troops: while Keystone fans obsess over 35 oil jobs, 120 solar jobs are already waiting for military veterans in a new solar training program.
