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Does The Solar Industry Need A Credit Rating System?
Will solar projects get financing more easily if they have something similar to a credit rating? With the solar industry booming, you’d never know that less than 5% of the 6500 banks and lending institutions in this country are actively involved in financing solar projects. 16 leaders in the solar industry are coming together in the truSolarTM Working [...]
In Focus: Solar 2.0
One hundred gigawatts of solar PV is installed on the global grid. That first 100 gigawatts has brought the solar industry to this curious point. The solar industry is living through the denouement of a market jacked up on incentives and the associated manufacturing overcapacity and painful consolidation. Entrepreneurs are witnessing the collapse of a [...]
Exciting Next Level Solar Technologies
As the world begins to transition from fossil fuel energy to more sustainable forms of power, interest in solar panels has grown exponentially. New solar panel technologies currently under development will make it easier and more cost-efficient to use on new homes, as well as for retrofitting older homes to solar power. Understanding Solar Panels [...]
DOE Treasury Throws $150M at Clean Energy Manufacturing
In an effort to spur more U.S.-based solar, wind and other clean energy manufacturing, the Department of Energy and the Treasury Department teamed up to offer $150 million in tax credits. Under the offer, announced today, Feb. 7, the Treasury Department is allocating credits to the Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits program that weren’t previously [...]
The History of Solar Power
I’ll bet when you think of electric solar panels you think that this is a new technology, well it isn’t. Solar panels have been used and developed in the 1700’s in France. They took a while to catch on to the masses and even now they are slow to grasp the general public because of [...]
The Solar Powered iPhone: Coming Soon?
Forbes just posted an article about a patent Apple was granted yesterday that paves the way for a solar powered iPhone in which the solar cells will also double as touch screen sensors: Most of us have used or at least seen solar power calculators. Why not use solar power to augment the battery in [...]
Community Solar Grows Up
Community solar is capturing attention across the US as a way to get clean energy to everyone, including people who rent and whose roofs are too shaded for solar. A paper, “Community Shared Solar: Diverse Approaches for a Common Goal,” illustrates how three utilities are giving customers access to community solar in Florida, Colorado Springs and Tucson. Most community solar installations [...]
1366 Technologies Kerfless PV Wafer Fab
Against the headwind of a chaotic solar market, 1366 Technologies of Lexington, Mass., a startup with VC funding and a DOE loan guarantee, just opened a $6 million, 25-megawatt wafer fabrication facility that could eventually employ 100 people. The company’s technology falls in the “kerfless wafer” category, a technology of special interest for outgoing DOE [...]
Stion Shines at the Superbowl
Stion, the thin-film photovoltaic manufacturer, which has rushed out of startup operations and into the big leagues over the past few months is upping its visibility at the Super Bowl this weekend with Solar Alternatives. The two companies have built a solar canopy at the Kingswood Playground in New Orleans as part of the Big [...]