Suniva, a high-efficiency solar cell maker and one of GTM’s Top Ten Startups, has inked a $500 million cell supply deal with module maker Solon AG. The four year deal runs from 2009 to 2012 and matches up well with the expansion plans Suniva’s announced over the last couple months. In June, Suniva announced it [...]
Trilogy by Shea Homes, a builder within the mega-sized property developer Shea Homes, will give home buyers in select communities in California, Arizona, Washington and Florida free solar systems on their homes through August 31. After that, homeowners can buy the 3-kilowatt systems as an upgrade.
The solar systems, from BP Solar, can reduce power bills [...]
Sometimes, in the heat of battle, you miss a few details. While reviewing the carnage from last week’s GT Solar IPO, I came across a Boston Globe piece that briefly mentioned something a lot of people overlooked. “GT Solar didn’t need money,” the article read, “choosing to go public only so private investors who bankrolled [...]
Fremont, California-based Solyndra is a secretive solar company. As secretive as you can be when you have 400+ employees, are looking for a valuation of greater than a billon dollars, and occupy a 183,000 square foot building on the side of a major highway. (I’ve verified those valuation claims from a number of Silicon Valley [...]
Intel makes its third solar investment in the last month.
Intel Capital continued its surge in the solar market with this morning’s announcement of a $12.5 million investment in precursor chemical company, Voltaix. Founded in 1986, Voltaix makes electronic chemicals and gases used in semiconductor manufacturing and CVD precursors such as germane, used in the production [...]
The new home of Other World Computing, a large computer dealer in Woodstock Illinois, is about as green as you can get.
The building, which will ultimately aim for LEED platinum certification, sports a geothermal heating and cooling system, a reflective roof and a system from Sunlight Direct that pumps sunlight from a reflector dish [...]
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The new home of Other World Computing, a large computer dealer in Woodstock Illinois, is about as green as you can get. The building, which will ...
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