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Clarification: China-US Solar Trade Claim
According to a bulletin from CASM, The Department of Commerce "will begin collecting duties back 90 days on Chinese imports" if it finds duties are warranted. The CASM statement said that CASM lauded "the U.S. Department of Commerce for taking expedited action against a massive, evasive surge of Chinese solar cell and panel imports ahead [...]
A Look Inside the Solar Industry at Schiller Automation
Solar energy has grown “from a cottage industry to a mature industry in less than a decade,” said Schiller LLC Managing Director Mark Willingham. Schiller Automation, a 30-year-old, 260-employee manufacturing firm, based near Stuttgart, Germany, seized the opportunity early in solar’s focus on solar module and cell man manufacturing. The firm combined expertise in high [...]
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Aims at 33 Percent Renewables by 2020
California’s 46 publicly owned utilities manage about a quarter of the state’s power. Of them, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), the state’s (and the nation’s) largest public utility with about nine percent to 12 percent of California’s generation, has been thought the bad boy for making lots of promises about developing [...]
First Solar on the Future of Photovoltaics: Part 1
First Solar is the largest solar module firm by market capitalization, the largest thin-film solar firm, and one of the largest solar firms by capacity, shipments, and certainly by cumulative profits. The company is in the cross hairs of every other solar firm and continues to set the bar in terms of solar panel value [...]
Who Reigns Supreme in Residential Solar?
In 2010, the market value of all residential solar installed in the U.S. was just shy of $ 1.8 billion. Once tallied, the 2011 dollar amount will be substantially larger. According to data collected by GTM Research, there are well over 2,000 experienced residential installers fighting for a piece of this $ 2-billion-plus pie. This [...]
Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy Holding Forms Renewables Unit
MidAmerican Energy Holding Company, the Midwestern utility subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, announced today it will form a branch dedicated exclusively to the development of renewable energy. The renewables platform will, unlike four of MidAmerican’s five other highly regulated platforms (two utilities and two gas pipelines), offer MidAmerican the opportunity it has only had [...]
Guest Post: Price Is Not the Only Issue in a Solar Trade Discussion
Background: On December 20, 2011, Jigar Shah, President, Coalition of Affordable Solar Energy (CASE) and founder of SunEdison, publicly asked Gordon Brinser, President of SolarWorld Industries Americas and the Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing (CASM) to withdraw its petition to the U.S. ITC/DOC against Chinese solar imports for dumping solar panels in the U.S. below [...]
Autodesk: A Hollywood Happy Ending for Renewables and Greentech Innovation?
The last 16 Academy Award winners in the Visual Effects category use Autodesk design tools, acccording to the company. Autodesk describes its multiple visualizing tools as “digital prototyping software.” The software allows users to create three-dimensional virtual realities in which to challenge and perfect their designs. “It lets people design, visualize and simulate their ideas,” [...]
Ten Years of Texas Electric Utility Deregulation
Texas has the oldest and most successful deregulated electricity marketplace in the U.S. A decade ago, deregulation was rolled out by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) in the wake of California’s $ 45 billion partial deregulation fiasco. By 2008, 80 percent of Texas registered voters favored a competitive electricity market, and, by 2010, [...]
What Are Romney and Gingrich’s Plans for Energy in the US?
Although the GOP presidential primary race remains fluid, the front-runners are now Newt Gingrich, fresh from a victory in South Carolina, and Mitt Romney, the second-place finisher in Iowa and South Carolina and first-place finisher in New Hampshire. Barring a brokered convention, one of these gentlemen will likely be the GOP candidate with a chance [...]
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