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Solar: The Solution To The US Housing Crisis?
There is an article on Bloomberg about Sumitomo’s warning that a solar bubble is forming in Japan: As Goldman Sachs and billionaire Masayoshi Son lead a swarm of investors exploiting Japan’s solar power subsidies, the world’s biggest, Sumitomo Corp. is betting on wind. Sumitomo’s focus is in part a response to a rush into solar projects that’s [...]
40% of U.S Pipeline is “Small Solar”
Favorable incentives and financing models continue to fuel interest in small solar projects, with installations at schools, municipal buildings, hospitals and retail stores now accounting for 40% of the US pipeline, reports NPD Solarbuzz. More than 1,300 projects under way are between 50 kilowatts (kW) and 500 kW in capacity with a cumulative PV generation [...]
India’s Power Grid Failure: What Happened?
This is the first part of a two part piece by Raj Prabhu of Mercom Capital addressing the recent blackouts in India. This first part examines technical, regulatory and political dimensions of the problem, and the second part will deal with proposed solutions. The massive grid failure in India last week affected over 600 million [...]
2014: The Year of the Solar Recovery?
Jeffries analyst has said that the solar industry which has been facing huge losses and a spate of bankruptcies can only hope to recover in 2014 with volume going down in 2013 . Pichel who is one of the oldest of the solar industry analysts predicts solar panel prices of 60-65c/watt by end 2012 and sees [...]
Chinese Conglomerates Stronger After Industry Crisis
While thousands of small solar companies in the world have gone / are going bust on account of massive industry oversupply and crashed solar panel prices, huge state owned Chinese conglomerates / quasi government companies are strengthening their position in the industry. There have been large number of bankruptcies in the West including such stalwarts [...]
Profiting from the Current Solar Crisis
The U.S imposition of anti-dumping and countervailing duties on China-made solar cells has brought out unintended beneficiaries and losers. I had explained in an earlier post that US-based polysilicon factories and solar equipment makers will be hurt due to this decision. They will probably face Chinese government duties on imports of polysilicon and equipment where [...]
The Energy Crisis in Pakistan
Pakistan, a country battling many political and economical issues, is currently facing around 6 GW of power shortage that is gradually choking the country’s energy system. The main reason behind the huge shortfall of energy is decades of mismanagement of the industry that ignored the economic and population growth in the country, leaving a huge [...]