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Green Job Moves at Flextronics, Amonix, SolarCity and the US Government
Aneesh Chopra, the nation's first Chief Technology Officer, resigned his office last week. Chopra was a champion of merging America's IT prowess with the health care and energy sectors. He also brought a focus on the cybersecurity sector. He had spoken about accelerating the smart grid through innovation enabled by open standards. His office was [...]
Report: Solar Trade Barriers Threaten Over 60,000 American Jobs
The Brattle Group has issued an economic analysis on the impact of a 100 percent tariff on PV cells imported from China. Keep in mind that the study was commissioned by CASE, the Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy — the group that opposes the tariffs sought by SolarWorld and its anti-dumping claims with the Department [...]
California’s Grid System Operator Confronts the Prospect of 33 Percent Renewables by 2020
Building enough new solar and wind capacity to meet California’s 33 percent renewables by 2020 mandate will not be easy — but reliably getting the electricity generated by those resources to the places where it will be consumed may be even tougher. That is the responsibility of the California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO). The [...]
Guest Post: US Shows China Writing on the PV Tariff Wall
The Department of Commerce Finding · The U.S. Dept. of Commerce on Jan. 27, 2012 makes a critical circumstances finding on Chinese solar cells/panels. · The finding was based on import data from Suntech Power and Trina Solar [Editor's note: see Trina response here] for the three-month periods of October to December 2011 vs. July [...]
Silverado Power’s Different Approach to Building Solar
Silverado Power believes its approach to development can avoid the controversies impeding the advance of renewables in Southern California. In response to those controversies, major renewable energy projects got some not-so-great news from Los Angeles County’s Board of Supervisors in the last week of January. The Supervisors’ decisions threaten California Governor Jerry Brown’s ambition to [...]
Ira Ehrenpreis on the State of the Cleantech Industry
PALM SPRINGS, California — Reporting from the Clean-Tech Investor Summit. Ira Ehrenpreis is the cleantech partner at VC-investment firm Technology Partners. For the eighth year in a row, Ehrenpreis is serving as the Conference Chairman of the Clean-Tech Investor Summit today and tomorrow in Palm Springs, Ca. He has been investing in cleantech since long [...]
One Solar-Wind Hybrid Goes Down, Another Goes Up
Element Power’s proposed Wildflower Renewable Energy Farm, which would be composed of 150 megawatts of wind and 100 megawatts of solar, got dealt a significant setback on January 24 when the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously rejected the company’s application for new meteorological (met) towers. Without met tower data, Element Power is unlikely [...]
First Solar on the Future of Photovoltaics: Part 2
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 [...]
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 [...]
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