Tag Archives: play
Pure-Play Utility PV Developers: How to Compete in the U.S. Market?
It’s no revelation that First Solar and SunPower dominate the utility PV market in the U.S. today; one of the two companies has been involved in everyone of the 11 largest operating projects in the country. But they arenot nearly alone in the market. Rather, there are 55 different projectdevelopers with at least one signed [...]
Texas could be USA’s next big renewable energy play
Shelby Ruff, regional director of Business Development, Solar Community, San Antonio is among more than 50 Texas business and government leaders speaking at Texas Renewables 2010, Texas’ premier business-to-businessmeeting for anyone in or wanting to be in the Texas renewable energyindustry. The conference takes place November 7-10 in SanAntonio and is organized by Texas Renewable [...]
Plug and Play Solar/Wind From Clarian Technologies
Clarian Technologies, the Seattle-based clean energy startup led by Chad Maglaque, aims to bring affordable solar and wind energy to homes across America based on a simple yet revolutionary design principle. Clarian’s solar panels and wind generators don’t require inverters,those pricey units needed to convert direct current (DC) to the ACcurrent that feeds into your [...]
Play With Our Solar Cost Calculator!
Hey. I’m Annie, GetSolar’s summer intern. As one would hope for anintern here, I like solar panels and playing with numbers. As a result, I think our betacalculator might be the coolest thing since sliced bread. Let meshow you how it works. If you start at the top left hand corner and submit your Customer [...]
7 Solar Inventions That Will Change How You Play
Small solar panel toys aren’t just for geeks with calculators andcalculator watches anymore. With the rapid development of new, cheapermeans of producing efficient photovoltaics, solar-powered devices arebecoming a bigger part of our everyday lives. In the next few yearswe’re likely to see solar power energize even more of our gadgets andtoys, some big, some small.Image [...]
Arizona’s Great Power Play: Plan B
As I wrote here recently,the hasty demise of anti-solar House Bill 2701 raised more questionsthan it answered. One of those questions is: Why did Arizona’s Speakerof the House, Representative Kirk Adams (R), say that HB2060 wasevidence that he and his colleagues support solar power and are“send[ing] a clear message to global industries: we want you [...]
Immelt: Government has to play a ‘key role’ in clean energy investments
This is a Wonk Room repost. WR has been reporting from the Clinton Global Initiative conference this week. Earlier this year, the American Society for Civil Engineers roundly panned America’s disintegrating infrastructure, giving it an overall D grade and estimating that “it would take a $2.2 trillion investment… over the next five years to bring [...]