All Entries Tagged With: "Energy"
Obama Visits Largest Solar Plant in US and Talks Energy
Amazon.com Widgets Yesterday, we covered President Obama's visit to the largest operational solar photovoltaic plant in the U.S.– the 55-megawatt (DC) Sempra Copper Mountain solar facility in Boulder City, Nev., about 40 miles southeast of Las Vegas. Construction at the 380-acre desert site began in January of 2010 with about 350 construction workers installing almost [...]
Update: CPV Startup Energy Innovations’ Assets Acquired in One Lot
Heritage Global Partners, an auction house, just sent notice to potential bidders: Please be advised the Seller of the Energy Innovations Auction has accepted a bulk sale offer for the entire inventory. As a result, we will not be having an online auction tomorrow, March 20. Last month, Energy Innovations CEO Joe Budano told Greentech [...]
CPV Startup Energy Innovations Auctioning Non-Core Assets
Last month, sources close to Energy Innovations told GTM that the firm would be acquired by a strategic investor in the next few weeks and that some form of debtor protection might have to be taken prior to the envisioned sale. There would seem to be far less to acquire once this auction takes place. [...]
Texans Saving Energy and Cash in Net-Zero Homes
Sustainable Homes of Texas President Darrel McMaster calls the house he built last year in the Texas hill country outside San Antonio “the greenest house in America” because it received the highest verified green building standard score ever given by the National Association of Home Builders. After rebates, the cost of that green score was [...]
CPV Startup Energy Innovations Seeking Strategic Acquirer
We've long maintained that concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) solar is a niche product, albeit with some potentially large niches — notably, high DNI areas with limited water resources. But scaling-up and raising money from skittish VCs for solar startups has become particularly challenging in this post-Solyndra era. (Although a few CPV firms have received funding of [...]
Solar Frontier Ships CIS Thin-Film Solar Panels to Energy Giant NRG
Solar Frontier delivered 13.2 megawatts of its CIS thin film solar modules to NRG Solar this month. That single 13.2 megawatt shipment equals or eclipses what Nanosolar or Soltecture, CIGS aspirants, shipped in all of 2011. NRG, one of the world's largest solar developers, is overseeing the construction of the 250-megawatt California Valley Solar Ranch [...]
What Are the Santorum, Romney and Gingrich Plans for Energy in the US?
Last month we published an article on the energy policies of Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, the clear front-runners in the GOP at that time. But the Republican presidential primary race remains fluid, and Rick Santorum had a strong night with a sweep of Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri. Barring a brokered convention, one of these [...]
What Does a Renewable Energy Developer Owe the Community?
From the moment a renewable energy developer selects a site for a utility-scale solar or wind project, be it Nantucket Sound or the Mojave Desert, the conflict begins. A site with a rich renewable resource offers a developer the prospect of doing well by doing good, of opening up a front in the fight against [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
