All Entries Tagged With: "Solar"
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
First Solar on the Future of Photovoltaics: Part 1
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 [...]
Who Reigns Supreme in Residential Solar?
In 2010, the market value of all residential solar installed in the U.S. was just shy of $ 1.8 billion. Once tallied, the 2011 dollar amount will be substantially larger. According to data collected by GTM Research, there are well over 2,000 experienced residential installers fighting for a piece of this $ 2-billion-plus pie. This [...]
Guest Post: Price Is Not the Only Issue in a Solar Trade Discussion
Background: On December 20, 2011, Jigar Shah, President, Coalition of Affordable Solar Energy (CASE) and founder of SunEdison, publicly asked Gordon Brinser, President of SolarWorld Industries Americas and the Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing (CASM) to withdraw its petition to the U.S. ITC/DOC against Chinese solar imports for dumping solar panels in the U.S. below [...]
Layoffs at CIGS Solar Hopeful MiaSolé
MiaSolé, the Kleiner Perkins- and Vantage Point-backed CIGS solar company, has laid off 30 percent of its workforce, according to sources close to the company. A company spokesperson has verified that there have been layoffs, but did not specify the extent of the reduction-in-force. We understand that many of the layoffs have occurred in engineering [...]
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 [...]
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