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1 Gigawatt of Solar to the Americas
What is a gigawatt? One billion (109) watts. That’s the total capacity of all the solar panels Suntech has now delivered to customers throughout North and South America. That’s no small amount of energy: One gigawatt of solar panels is enough to power about 113,000 U.S. homes a year! We passed the 1 GW milestone [...]
SunPower Announces $325M in Residential Solar Projects from Citi and Credit Suisse
In a remarkably clear trend, SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWR) just announced $325 million in new commitments for residential solar lease projects from Citi and Credit Suisse. SunPower joins in the recent cash infusions from banks for firms such as SolarCity, SunRun, OneRoof, Clean Power Finance, and Borrego Solar totaling more than $600 million in what is [...]
GTM Research to Unveil New Solar Reports
Through its collaboration with the Solar Energy Industries Association(SEIA), GTM Research has created an unparalleled analysis of the U.S.solar industry in a report series titled U.S. SolarInsight.Together, SEIA and GTM Research will be releasing the first report fromthis partnership at Solar Power International, October 12-14, 2010 atthe Los Angeles Convention Center. The entire GTM Research [...]
Imec reports large-area silicon solar cells with high efficiency
At the 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Valencia,Spain), imec presents several large-area silicon solar cells with aconversion efficiency above 19 percent. Two types of cells wererealized namely with Ag-screenprinted contacts and plated Cu-contacts.Efficiencies of cells with screenprinted contacts were up to 19.1percent, whereas 19.4 percent was obtained with Cu-plated contacts. These high efficiencies were [...]
Canadian Solar Reports Mixed Results $CSIQ
I’ve been on vacation for a few days so didn’t get this out Thursdaynight, but Canadian Solar (CSIQ) reported mixed Q1 results. The company posted a non GAAP EPS of $0.03, 4 cents lower than the analyst estimate of $0.07 on revenue of $336.9 million, vs estimate of $330.97 million. Those numbers are big increase [...]
SEPA Reports On Solar Fact-Finding Mission To Japan
The Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) and utility partners have returned from a fact-finding mission to Japan. During the trip, SEPA observedthat Japan appears to have embraced solar at the consumer, manufacturing and national policy levels. Many of the participants describedtheir renewed sense that the U.S. is also on the right track, withgrowing utility integration [...]
India Reports Record Year for Renewable Energy
Much has been made of the renewableenergy juggernauts that are China and the United States. Often lost in the conversation, though, is India which has had a record year for clean energy installations in 2009-2010. According to the Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Indiaadded 2.33 gigawatts of grid-connected renewable power between March2009 and [...]
Hoku Scientific Reports Mixed Results $HOKU
HokuScientific (HOKU) reported earnings results after the bell and traders aren’t impressed. While the company matched analyst estimates with a .03/share loss, theymissed badly on revenues reporting just $776K vs the analyst estimate of $1.4 million. Granted, it’s a big improvement over the 112K theyreported in the year ago quarter, but when you miss that badly, [...]
SunPower Reports Earnings Results
SunPower(SPWRA) reported mixed results after the bell today missing analyst estimates on the EPS side (reporting .05 vs estimate of .08), but matched the revenuenumber at $347 million. Compared to the year ago quarter, the resultslook darn good because that was a terrible quarter in which the companyreported a loss for the first time in [...]