All Entries Tagged With: "2011"
US Solar 2011 Year in Review in One Graphic
Amazon.com Widgets GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA)® just released U.S. Solar Market Insight: 2011 Year-in-Review, the industry's leading resource for data and analysis on solar markets in the U.S. This quarter's report analyzes the United States' record solar growth in 2011, as well as what lies ahead for the market in [...]
Top Ten U.S. Solar Stats from 2011
Today, GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA)® release U.S. Solar Market Insight: 2011 Year-in-Review, the industry's leading resource for data and analysis on solar markets in the U.S. This quarter's report analyzes the U.S.'s record solar growth in 2011, as well as what lies ahead for the market in 2012 and beyond. Below, [...]
SunPower Rules Commercial Solar Market in 2011
SunPower kept its spot as the top commercial solar installer in the United States last year, but saw SolarCity increase its own share to nip at its lead. It's a rivalry worthy of a lawsuit over allegedly stolen customer data. Over the course of 2010 and 2011, more than 1.1 gigawatts of commercial solar was [...]
Polysilicon Prices Hit Record Low in 2011; Will Head Even Lower, Enabling $0.70/W PV in 2012
GTM Research publishes the Polysilicon 2012-2016: Supply, Demand & Implications for the Global PV Industry report, a comprehensive analysis on global polysilicon markets, including the technologies, business strategies and economic roadmap for the industry. To learn more, click here. In 2011, the solar industry saw global oversupply drive PV prices to record lows, with crystalline silicon (c-Si) module [...]
2011 Saw Greentech M&A Double, IPOs Dry Up
Far more green technology companies cashed out by being sold to a corporate buyer than via entry to the public markets last year. That’s the gist of Cleantech Group’s preliminary 2011 green technology investment figures, which showed that corporations spent $ 41.2 billion on greentech M&A last year, up 153 percent from 2010. That doesn’t [...]
Biggest Solar Venture Capital Deals of 2011
In a difficult year for solar, venture capital investors continue to invest in the sector — although the activity has shifted away from early stage to the late stage follow-up rounds seen below. Here are the six heftiest rounds in solar in 2011. BrightSource Energy (Oakland, Calif.) raised a $ 201 million Round E for [...]
2011: The Return of the Solar Shakeout
Editors Note: Ace GTM Research solar analyst Shyam Mehta posted this analysis in July of last year. His production and demand numbers turned out to be a bit low, but conceptually Shyam was right on target. As Mehta said, "In summary, the unrelenting, prolonged shakeout that was originally predicted for 2009 seems increasingly likely to [...]
Solar Power Year in Review 2011
Please forgive us the journalistic conceit of collecting these year-end trends — it's a necessary evil we all put ourselves through. In solar, this year is a bit more nerve-wracking than last. Here are ten trends in a particularly dynamic and pivotal year that will echo into 2012. In no particular order: Solar PV [...]
Top Ten GTM Articles of 2011
By the time the end of 2011 rolls around, Greentech Media will have published close to 2,000 articles for the year. Here's a list of articles with the highest numbers of unique page views. You can click on the image to read the original article. We'll start with number 10 and work our way up [...]
Solyndra Executive Bonuses Kept Coming in 2011
While Solyndra burned, the executives fiddled — and kept feeding themselves healthy bonuses. Dana Hull of the San Jose Mercury News read the 277-page Solyndra bankruptcy documents so you wouldn't have to. She uncovered the fact that Solyndra bankruptcy law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher earned $ 616,838 this summer — including $ 275,000 on [...]
