All Entries Tagged With: "Power"
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 [...]
Hoku Solar’s Factory to Get Its Power Disconnected
Hoku (Nasdaq:HOKU), in a case of questionable timing, is looking to open up a long-threatened $ 400 million polysilicon plant in Pocatello, Idaho. That's if it doesn't get its electricity turned off by the power company first — or if the essentially Chinese company doesn't have tariffs levied on its product when it ships polysilicon [...]
Hoku Solar’s Factory to Get Its Power Disconnected
Hoku (Nasdaq:HOKU), in a case of questionable timing, is looking to open up a long-threatened $ 400 million polysilicon plant in Pocatello, Idaho. That's if it doesn't get its electricity turned off by the power company first — or if the essentially Chinese company doesn't have tariffs levied on its product when it ships polysilicon [...]
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 [...]
Clean Power Finance Channels $1 Million Into Solar Every Day
At the end of 2010, Clean Power Finance (CPF) CEO Nat Kreamer and a group of the biggest names in greentech venture capital, including Kleiner Perkins and Google, decided to take the company to the next level. CPF was founded in 2007 as an online tool to connect solar buyers and sellers with financial products [...]
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 [...]
Mainstream Media Discovers Solar Power and Moore’s Law
An odd convergence occured yesterday when a fossil fuel CEO, a few media pundits, and some industry folk referenced Moore's law reaching solar technology amidst the mainstreaming of the solar industry. Although it's nice to see a nod to solar in The New York Times, it's kind of old news. Apparently writing from an office [...]
Guest Post: Solar Power International 2011 Review
SPI 2011 lived up to the reputation of its host city, Dallas, Texas. It was bigger than any previous SPI, as everything in the Lone Star State is reputed to be. After riding the SPI Dallas rollercoaster for three days and nights, it was apparent that: Module and technology companies aren’t going down without a [...]
How Does a Solar Power Plant Developer Win Over the Community?
Many people in California’s Antelope Valley, one of the state’s sunniest places, have a slightly different take on solar energy compared to renewable energy advocates in energy-hungry cities. As they watch solar power plant developers gobble up the wide open spaces on their high desert floor, they wonder why people in San Francisco and Los [...]
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 [...]
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