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GE Research Achieves CdTe PV Efficiency Record
Rather quietly, GE Research has bested First Solar for the cadmium telluride PV cell efficiency record. Clocking in at 18.3 percent, the new record edges First Solar’s previous mark by a full 1 percent. First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR) hit 17.3 percent about a year ago. Presumably, this record was set using the PrimeStar Solar technology acquired [...]
GE Exec: Developing World has the Greentech Opportunities
According to Mark Vachon, a 29 year GE veteran and the leader of ecomagination, the best opportunities for greentech are in the developing world and not in the US. GE has adopted a business strategy that has invested $5 billion in clean tech research and development and generated $106 billion in revenues through 2011. Ecomagination [...]
GE Teams with Paypal on EV Charging App
The question of how electric vehicle drivers will pay for charging outside of their home or immediate network has many answers. At the moment, it doesn’t really matter, as most charging happens at home, and many companies that have installed a charger for their employees pick up the tab. But if EVs and plug-in hybrids [...]
Vestas: Going Down Like Homie The Clown?
Vestas, the Danish producer of wind turbines which used to lord over the wind energy market has seen its fortunes crater with the advent of big Chinese wind turbine companies. The story of Vestas has been going downhill for a long time now with repeated revenue warnings, job losses and management changes. However like other [...]
GE Halts Colorado PV Solar Mega Plant
General Electric announced that it is halting construction at its planned PV manufacturing plant in Aurora, Col. The company was building a 400 megawatt PV manufacturing plant at the site, where they would manufacture cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaics. But falling PV module prices made the technology less economically viable. The news comes within a [...]
The Big Tunas Get It: GE, Buffett, Google, Apple go the Clean Energy Route
Google is backing it. So is Warren Buffett, America’s most-watched investor. GE, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers, is too. Each of these corporate icons is placing big bets and hundreds of millions of dollars on a future powered by wind and solar power. Apple just joined them, announcing plans to power its main U.S. [...]
GE Inks Another Wind Deal in Europe
GE (NYSE: GE) recently announced that a consortium including Spanish energy services company Tamoin Energías Renovables just signed the largest single GE wind turbine maintenance agreement in all of Europe with Iberdola Renovables SA of Madrid. This contract would cover servicing 310 GE turbines in Spain. While the agreement is for three years, there’s an [...]
The Top Corporate Climate Innovators
GE, Alcoa, Johnson Controls, Ford, Intel and Hess are leaders in the innovation of clean-tech solutions and products, mitigation of climate change-related risks and management of carbon emissions, according to a rating by risk analysis company Maplecroft. The Maplecroft Climate Innovation Indexes (CIIs) studied 360 large, multinational U.S. companies and how they adapt to climate-change [...]
Appliance Standards: Saving $1 Trillion by 2035
There is a great debate amongst utilities about how to get customers, large and small, to cut peak load. There are carrot approaches, such as rebates, and then there are sticks, like mandatory commercial critical peak pricing. Another approach, which is more long-term and not discussed as often, is increasing appliance and equipment standards for [...]