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Low Concentration PV Deployments From SunPower and Skyline Solar
One of the busiest booths at the 2011 Solar Power International show in Dallas last year was SunPower's unveiling of its low-concentration PV product. The efficiency-leading solar firm actually began as a concentrator company back in 1985. SunPower just announced the first commercial deployment of its C7 low-concentration PV tracker. SunPower, Salt River Project and [...]
More Funding for a Different Focus on CPV From REhnu
Here's a quick funding update from a non-conventional early-stage CPV firm. According to an SEC fiing, Rehnu just collected close to $ 1 million in funding from undisclosed investors. REhnu (pronounced “renew”) is a relatively new name in the concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) world. They're early stage and have a slightly different twist on the architecture [...]
GlobalWatt Evicted From Empty Michigan Solar Factory
Here's another for the list: GlobalWatt. 2006: Company founded in San Jose, California — Yogesh Rane, Director of Emerging Markets; CEO, Sanjeev Chitre June 2009: GlobalWatt considering locating a $ 189 million, 400 full-time-employee solar panel factory in Corpus Christi, Texas providing the city’s Business and Job Development Group coughs up $ 2.8 million in [...]
Jigar Shah Responds: From 1,000 Solar Rooftops to One Trading Desk
Last week we published an article from Hari Chandra Polavarapu, the Managing Director of Solar/Cleantech Research at AURIGA, in response to Jigar Shah's letter to CASM, the Coalition of American Solar Manufacturers. At issue is the claim by CASM that China is dumping solar panels in the U.S. below cost and that Chinese solar firms [...]
GreenVolts, CPV Aspirant, Gets $20M From ABB in a $35M Solar VC Round
GreenVolts, a concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) supplier, came to the solar market with a lot of promise a few years ago — only to recede soon afterward. The startup had signed a multi-megawatt power purchase agreement (PPA) with PG&E in 2008, one of the more sizable CPV projects at the time. But GreenVolts had some troubles [...]
India’s Solar IPP Azure Power Collects $13.6M From Germany’s DEG
In light of the slowdown of the European solar markets due to economic uncertainty and declining feed-in tariffs, the global solar industry is training its gaze on other growth markets. Despite an uncertain policy outlook, the U.S. market will almost double to 1.7 gigawatts in 2011. The domestic China market is only a few hundred [...]
Black Silicon From Sionyx Raises PV Efficiency
A process known as black silicon can improve the infrared sensitivity of silicon and silicon-based photonics. MIT spun out a company called Sionyx to apply their laser-based black silicon process to imaging and solar. The firm just announced results that demonstrate a 0.3% (absolute) efficiency improvement over standard solar cells. Sionyx was founded in 2006 [...]
Amargosa Farm Road Switches From CSP to PV
The planned 500-megawatt Amargosa Farm Road solar project in Nye County, Nevada has been converted to photovoltaic (PV) technology. The change comes as a result of the firm solarhybrid’s acquisition of Solar Millennium’s 2.25-gigawatt project portfolio in the American Southwest. Originally designed as a concentrating solar power (CSP) project, the Amargosa Farm Road plant is [...]
Clean Power Finance, Now a PPA Firm, Gets a $75M Fund From Google
A few months ago we broke the news that Clean Power Finance was becoming a residential PPA provider. The firm just received a $ 75 million fund from Google to pursue that goal and finance residential solar projects. Google has invested more than $ 850 million in renewable energy and comes fresh off of creating [...]
Elegant On-Site Solar Power From ZeroBase
ZeroBase Energy builds a portable, small-scale solar-powered energy hub that offers an alternative to diesel generators for a variety of applications and environments. Henry Gentenaar, the co-founder and CMO of ZeroBase, along with his partner Zach Lyman, the CTO, have spent some time out of the U.S. with little access to power, diesel or otherwise, [...]
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