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GE Energy Doubled Solar Investments in Past Year to $1.4 Billion
GE Energy Financial Services has announced another renewable energy investment. While presenting at the Infocast Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit in San Diego, General Electric Company’s investing arm boasted it had doubled its commitment to solar power in the last year with its $1.4 billion investment in the sector. “We started last year with [...]
GE Jumps Into Solar Sales $GE
As GE prepares to open its new solar thin-film manufacturing facility in Denver, the company is marketing its product to the most likely of buyers—its wind customers. Invenergy announced plans last week to install 23 megawatts of GE’s new thin-film solar panels at a 210-megawatt wind farm it operates in Illinois. “Wind and solar are [...]
Will First Solar Get Gobbled Up? $FSLR
Recently Businessweek speculated that now would be the best time to purchase First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR). The organization looked at First Solar’s precipitous fall in value and observed that a company like General Electric or Siemens AG would be likely suitors for the company. The company made a number of interesting moves in 2011, but [...]
The Quietest Wind Turbine in the World
An Australian company called Renewable Energy Solutions Australia Holdings Ltd. (RESA) has created what it says is a super quiet and efficient wind energy turbine. Suggestively called Eco Whisper, the wind turbine employs 30 smaller ones capped with a specially designed cowl ring that keeps them silent in most meteorological conditions. A cone shape allows [...]
The 5 Most Efficient Solar Panels Under Development
Undoubtedly, there has been a shift in the general consciousness towards using the non-conventional sources of energy. Solar energy comes high on the list of such sources because it is available in infinite quantities. Research is on to make solar panels that are more efficient to save space, cost and to improve energy utilization. Here [...]
Will GE Gobble Up First Solar? $GE $FSLR
Much like the notion of albino alligators living in the New York City sewers, the urban legend of General Electric (or some other large conglomerate) acquiring First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR) is a recurring meme. The idea bordered on outlandish when the company’s stock was trading at a 52-week high of $175.45 with a market cap [...]
Does GE Need to License it’s Wind Patent Portfolio? $GE
General Electric Company (GE) has vastly outpaced all of their competitors in intellectual property (IP) protection in many industries, but particularly wind turbines. The chart below reflects data from our efforts in analyzing the landscape of issued patents and pending applications from the horizontal axis, utility-scale wind sector and indicates just how far ahead they [...]
The Demand Side of Solar
Solar energy’s critics love to discuss reasons photovoltaic (PV) solar energy is a bad investment. Some go so far as to say that solar power does not even work, others talk about an oversupply of PV modules on the world market, and tell us that this “glut” proves solar will fail as an industry and [...]
GE Wants Rooftop Solar @ $4/Watt by 2012 $GE
General Electric’s (NYSE: GE) been increasing its focus on solar and how to bring costs down. While the new thin-film photovoltaic production facility it’s opening in Colorado is a major step toward doing so, it’s by far just one of many. Through other efforts, supported in part by $3.5 million in SunShot Initiative awards, GE’s [...]