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China’s Solar Growth: Holy Cow!
China is upping its solar target once again, after having done so several times in past couple of years. Last year, China raised the target to an eye-popping 21 gigawatts (GW) by 2015, and the new target of 35 GW is 67% higher than that. That means, in just 3 years, China will have added [...]
WOW: China’s Clean Energy Output Increases 48%
Bloomberg reports that China has increased its clean energy output from October 2011 to October 2012 by 48 percent. The country now generates 92.1 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of clean energy. China’s State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC) issued a statement last week that clean energy sources, including hydro and nuclear plants, equals 20.4 percent of electricity. [...]
In Focus: Dupont’s Solar Quality Standards
Solar installations were removed from twenty-four San Diego Unified School District campuses after corrosion was discovered that threatened the possibility of electrical issues that could lead to fires. The 4.3-megawatt installation was built in 2005-06 by Solar Integrated Technologies (SIT). SIT was acquired by Energy Conversion Devices (ECD) (PINK:ENERQ) in 2009. ECD’s Uni-Solar manufactured the [...]
Hedge Funds Increase Green Stocks Short Selling
Bloomberg reports that short selling in green stocks has been increasing and is nearlyfour times the short selling in the S&P. In November, 17% of shares in the 35 stocks that make up the Wilderhill New Energy Index are soldshort, up from 16% last month and 15% in September. That compares withthe 4.4% short ratio [...]
U.S. Navy to Increase Use of Solar Power
Like their military brethren in the U.S. Army, American’s naval forces are looking to go from navy to green. According to green resources, the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast in Jacksonville, FLhas plans to upgrade and install solar energy systems at 11 naval basesthroughout Texas, Florida and Mississippi, thanks to a $69.3 million infunding from the [...]
U.S. Solar Industry to Increase 114% by End of 2010
In a recent report released by the Solar Energy Industries Association, the solar market in the United States is estimated to increase 114 percent overlast year’s figure. This market growth will result in more than 1gigawatt of added capacity, accounting for 314 megawatts from projectsthat were brought on line during the first half of the [...]
How to Increase Cleantech Adoption in the US
A couple months ago, I was listening to Stephen Lacey’s podcast Inside Renewable Energy. The show was called ‘The Next Great Global Industry’. I listened to the round-table discussion that featured experts from the around the world discussing what’s happening in their region incleantech. While doing so, it became very clear that the US is fallingbehind [...]
State RPS Policies Will Create 250% Increase In Renewable Energy
State renewable portfolio standards (RPS) will be the most criticaldriver determining the pace of U.S. renewables growth, according to a new IHS EmergingEnergy Research market study. IHS estimates thatcumulative renewables demand across all states with binding RPS policies will grow from an expected 137 TWh in 2010 to 479 TWh by 2025 – anincrease of [...]
Solarfun To Increase Capacity To 900MW $SOLF
Solarfunjust announced that it will increase its module capacity to 900Mw byAugust of this year in order to keep up with increased demand fromcustomers. As part of this effort, the company also announced that ithas purchased a 25MW cell production line from SemiconductorManufacturing International Corporation. The purchase, along withSolarfun’s own previously announced expansion efforts, will [...]