There’s been a run on adult diapers as the equity analyst crowd gets ready for what may be the most anticipated solar IPO in recent memory. GT Solar, a New Hampshire-based manufacturer of production equipment for wafer and panel makers (they’re a manufacturer’s manufacturer), is set to debut on the NASDAQ sometime this week, more [...]
I moderated a solar thermal panel at Intersolar on Wednesday with three major players in the rapidly emerging solar thermal market – Ausra’s Glen Davis, Acciona’s Gilbert Cohen and Josef Eichhamer of Solar Millennium.
All of the firms that were on the panel have major contracts to provide power, are building or have built numerous power [...]
Continuing where we left off yesterday, here’s more of the chatter coming out of this year’s Intersolar conference in San Francisco:
From the really big valuation department…Optisolar allegedly received a $132 million funding round last quarter at an $850 million pre-money valuation according to several anonymous VCs. Optisolar manufactures PV modules and builds large-scale solar farms [...]
I’m sitting in the hallway outside the fifth floor bathroom in the InterContinental trying to come up with a creative answer to this question. In about three and half hours I’m scheduled to talk at and moderate a panel on residential solar finance along with reps from Akeena, SunRun, SolarCity and SunPower, and I’m still [...]
Greentech Media hosted an enormously successful all-day seminar on Concentrated Solar Power Markets and Technologies yesterday at Intersolar in San Francisco. Daniel Englander reported on it here. Over 300 people attended the seminar.
But as informative and compelling as the speakers were at the podium and on the panels – sometimes the more interesting conversations occur [...]
Dr. Fred Morse believes the single biggest obstacle to the widespread deployment of CSP technology is the U.S. Congress. According to Dr. Morse, the American Southwest has a bigger energy potential than both hydro power in the Pacific Northwest and the oil under West Texas. This is a much more refined argument than the oft-repeated [...]
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