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Opportunity for FREE training: PV Technical Sales Certification Pathway, Austin 10/30
Oct 27th
ImagineSolar is offering a PV Sales and Marketing (4)-hour workshop Saturday, 10/30 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at JATC, 4000 Caven Rd. (google it for directions. Basically, just south of Ben White Blvd. just east of I-35)
This class is the first in our new PV Technical Sales Certification Pathway course series. Here is the offer: John Hoffner, host of KOOP “Shades of Green” Thursday 10/28 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. is GIVING AWAY FREE PASSES to this class to ANYONE WHO CALLS IN DURING THE PROGRAM!!! (Normally this class is $199.00 !!!) As many know, John and Michael Kuhn, President and CEO More >
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Loading ...GTM Research: 2010 Global PV Demand Analysis and Forecast
Aug 10th
Shayle Kann kann@gtmresearch.com
MAY 19, 2010
2010 Global PV Demand Analysis and Forecast
Between 2000 and 2009, global PV demand grew at an average annual rate of 51 percent, rising from 170 MW to 7,059 MW. Despite this impressive rate of growth, the past two years have witnessed a fundamental and difficult market shift for manufacturers. Previously, burgeoning European feed-in tariff markets enabled global demand to exceed available supply, driving up feedstock prices and attracting new entrants across the value chain. But the combination of an ensuing rapid capacity build-out and the financial crisis of 2008 and early 2009 shifted market power downstream More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Solar Power Surge Prompts TEP to Seek Changes to SunShare Rebate Program
Jul 19th
TUCSON, Ariz., Jul 14, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — A surge in the popularity of solar energy systems has prompted Tucson Electric Power (TEP) to propose new, lower subsidies for residential customers who install photovoltaic (PV) arrays.
Nearly 1,100 local homeowners have reserved TEP SunShare rebates for PV systems this year, exceeding the total number of residential solar power systems completed over the previous nine years combined. Local businesses also have rushed to invest in solar power systems, draining the funds designated for up-front commercial incentives in 2010.
In response to this unprecedented demand, TEP has asked the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) to More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Yingli Completes 400-MW Production Expansion
Jul 8th
Published: July 8, 2010
Baoding, China — Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited announced that its latest 400-megawatt (MW) capacity expansion has been completed and is producing panels.
“Given the higher cell efficiency of the Yingli Solar Panda Module, we expect to help our customers further reduce their balance-of-system cost.”– Liansheng Miao, Chairman and CEO, Yingli Green Energy
The new solar PV manufacturing lines include a 300-MW PANDA monocrystalline silicon based production capacity at the company’s Baoding headquarters, and a 100-MW multicrystalline silicon based production capacity in Haikou, Hainan Province.
“We expect these latest production lines to reach full capacity by the More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Pike: Solar To Hit Grid Parity by 2013
Jul 2nd
Published: July 1, 2010
Colorado, United States — The solar energy market has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past two years, driven by a new abundance of polysilicon, the effects of the worldwide financial crisis, and the plunging price of solar modules.
Between 2010 and 2013, Pike Research forecasts that solar demand will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24%.As a result of these factors, the solar industry has shifted from supply-constrained to demand-driven, and a few strong companies have been able to improve their revenues and market share based on a low cost per watt combined More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Jigar Shah (Founder, Sun Edison): “The Solar Industry Controls Its Own Destiny”
Jun 30th
ERIC WESOFF: JUNE 30, 2010
Jigar Shah, solar visionary, speaks on a variety of controversial topics including energy storage, DC-to-DC chips, and trackers.
Jigar Shah, CEO of the Carbon War Room and Founder of Sun Edison, spoke at Camstar’sSummit on Solar Quality event today in Santa Clara, California. I managed to chat with him before he delivered his keynote.
He was adamant. “The solar industry controls its own destiny.” The industry thinks its “controlled by subsidies or the price of silicon,” but in his view, it’s held back more by timidity than by those external factors. Shah went on to claim, “We are going to be at 100,000 More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...DuPont Opens North American PV Research Facility
Jun 15th
Published: June 15, 2010
Delaware, United States — DuPont opened a North American photovoltaic applications lab at its Chestnut Run facility in Wilmington, Delaware this week to support materials development for solar photovoltaic energy market. DuPont expects its photovoltaic sales to grow over 50 percent this year, and to exceed US $2 billion by 2014.
“DuPont is responding to the demand by collaborating with customers, governments and other stakeholders to deliver high-performance innovation that addresses head-on energy challenges today and into the future.”– Ellen Kullman, Chair & CEO, DuPont
The lab will accelerate introduction of new photovoltaic materials and engineering innovations by More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The Future of Residential Solar Energy
Jun 14th
Posted on June 7, 2010
As I’ve watched the residential solar energy market for the past year I’ve often wondered where it is heading. Who will emerge as the dominant players? Will the panel manufacturers ultimately control the industry or will those on the leasing and finance side? How will rebates look in years to come? Will the federal and local governments continue to support residential solar energy?
I’m not enough of a clairvoyant to be able to predict who will dominate the market, but I will say that there is some pretty amazing progress being made. Here are my favorite advances which I More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Adam Capital (Clean Energy Asset Finance), Solar Solutions Close $500k Renewable Energy Loan Agreement
Apr 30th
April 29, 2010
Adam Capital offers collateralized loans between $250,000 and $3 million to commercial scale renewable energy developers of Solar, solar Thermal, Wind, Waste to Energy, and Biofules. SONOMA, Calif.,
Adam Capital Clean Energy Asset Finance, the leading collateral-based lender serving distributive commercial renewable energy developers, today announced the closing of a $500,000 loan with Arizona-based Solar Solutions. Solar Solutions plans to use the loan to install approximately 100 kW of residential solar systems in the Phoenix area.
“The agreement with Solar Solutions is a prime example of Adam Capital’s unique lending model of securing a renewable energy loan primarily by More > (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...SolarBridge gets $15 million venture investment (#Austin #PV #MicroInverter)
Apr 26th
SolarBridge gets $15 million venture investment
Austin-based SolarBridge Technologies has raised $15 million to build out operations for its first product launch.
Rho Ventures and Battery Ventures made the investment. SolarBridge has raised a total of $27 million.
SolarBridge develops technology to make solar panels more efficient. It is one of about two dozen companies that has received money from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. The fund invested $1.5 million in the company in March.
Founded in 2004 using technology licensed from the University of Illinois, SolarBridge plans to launch its first product by the end of More >
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