We don’t put a ton of attention on the environmental concerns of solar power, because the environmental downsides really don’t compare to the environmental benefits of switching from coal or nuclear to solar. Nonetheless, solar does have its impacts.
GE just made a number of huge solar power announcements….
First Solar, which broke the $1.00 a Watt price barrier last year, is currently the low cost leader in being able to produce (non-silicon based) thin film at $0.76 cents a Watt, and they have been rewarded with contracts from major utilities such as PG&E for solar thin film installations … [continued]
Last week, Enbridge and First Solar announced that the Sarnia Solar Project, an 80-megawatt (MW) solar project in Ontario, Canada was fully installed and commercially operating. Sarnia Solar Project is now the largest operating photovoltaic facility in the world. The project includes about 1.3 million thin film solar panels from First … [continued]
[social_buttons] Solar energy giant First Solar closed a major deal to acquire NextLight Renewable Power, LLC for $297 million this week.
First Solar seems to have an ability to get solar projects past the environmental reviews and actually built. Over Christmas, it got its first 21MW Blythe pilot project solar thin film project up and running in California and this month it will break ground on another 30MW plant courtesy of … [continued]
Wow! Ted Turner’s newest renewable investment firm; Southern Turner Renewable Energy has wasted no time in signing its first solar plant, a 30 MW thin film PV project they just contracted from First Solar, within months after opening their doors for business. Construction will start this month. [social_buttons] The brand … [continued]
Obama said just the other day that “the nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy,” and I got into a little discussion about the rivalry between Obama and the President of China, Hu Jintao, on this topic. I thought I would … [continued]
First Solar’s utility-scale PV plant has now been up and running, in Blythe, California, for its first full month. Once it got a go-ahead in the summer It only took three months to build.
One of the solar industry’s corporate giants, First Solar, announced recently that it expects sales for fiscal year 2010 to reach between $2.7 billion and $2.9 billion. This is about $300 to $500 million more than Wall Street expectations. Despite the current economic situation, and a major recent let-down in … [continued]
