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’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 [...]
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 [...]
Greentech Media is coming live to you all week from Intersolar North America in San Francisco. We’re kicking off the week with a day long conference on concentrating solar technologies and markets, featuring industry leaders like Dr. Fred Morse from Abengoa, Travis Bradford, Hal LaFlash from PG&E, and Robert Morgan from Ausra. On Wednesday we’re [...]
Applied Materials has struck again. This morning, the company announced that it will build a 40-megawatt solar panel factory for Moncada Energy in Sicily.
Moncada is a wind park developer, but it’s not the first novel buyer of Applied’s SunFab manufacturing lines for making thin film solar panels. A few weeks ago, the oil-rich sultanate of [...]
We’ll always have South Korea.
So goes the constant refrain from PV module manufacturers who’ve looked in the crystal ball and seen a future of dry markets in the U.S. and Spain. The current thinking is that Congress’s failure to renew the solar investment tax credit will significantly dampen demand in the U.S., Spain’s inability to [...]
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