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Clean Power Finance Moves Big Numbers Into PV With Vivint Solar Deal

Clean Power Finance Moves Big Numbers Into PV With Vivint Solar Deal

Herman K. Trabish: February 7, 2012

CPF’s money and Vivint’s customers could mean 150K rooftop solar installs a year.

Can Microinverters and Optimizers Work in Large Solar PV Installations?

Can Microinverters and Optimizers Work in Large Solar PV Installations?

Eric Wesoff: December 28, 2011

Can distributed electronics for solar move past residential to small and medium commercial, or is SMA right?

Solar Power Year in Review 2011

Solar Power Year in Review 2011

Eric Wesoff: December 23, 2011

There must be a pony in here somewhere.

The Race to Scale in Solar Electronics: Tigo Banks $18M

The Race to Scale in Solar Electronics: Tigo Banks $18M

Eric Wesoff: December 12, 2011

Are panel optimizers more than a niche?

Microinverter Wars: Enecsys and Enphase Go Trans-Atlantic

Microinverter Wars: Enecsys and Enphase Go Trans-Atlantic

Jeff St. John: December 6, 2011

Enphase starts selling in France and environs, and Enecsys gets into Ontario’s FIT while staking out German turf. 

The Ghost of Solyndra Is Fading

The Ghost of Solyndra Is Fading

Eric Wesoff: November 23, 2011

No bidders for the company; ex-employees get “trade adjustment assistance”; Chu testifies; Congress moves on to its next scandal. Soon Solyndra’s tale will be told only as a bedtime horror story at Fox News.

SEIA’s Resch: US Will Be a 10 GW Solar Market in 2015, 1603 Will Be Extended, and More

SEIA’s Resch: US Will Be a 10 GW Solar Market in 2015, 1603 Will Be Extended, and More

Eric Wesoff: November 16, 2011

There’s a good chance that the 1603 tax grant will be extended. And SolarWorld is filing a trade claim in the EU, as well.

GTM Research on the US Solar State of the Union

GTM Research on the US Solar State of the Union

Eric Wesoff: November 16, 2011

The US is becoming a much larger force in the global PV market. Expect a 1.7 GW total in 2011.

Silver Spring’s Maui-Oklahoma Sunshot

Silver Spring’s Maui-Oklahoma Sunshot

Jeff St. John: November 16, 2011

Silver Spring Networks’ dream of networking solar inverters is coming true in Hawaii—and in Oklahoma to boot.

Update: SolarEdge Closes $37M Round for PV Electronics and Hints at IPO Registration

Update: SolarEdge Closes $37M Round for PV Electronics and Hints at IPO Registration

Eric Wesoff: October 24, 2011

Venture capital investing in solar firms is alive and well.

eIQ: “The Biggest Action in Solar Is in Distributed Electronics”

eIQ: “The Biggest Action in Solar Is in Distributed Electronics”

Eric Wesoff: October 18, 2011

eIQ doesn’t rely on the standard value propositions for distributed electronics. They just lower the cost of balance of system.

SPI: The Rise of the AC Module With SunPower and SolarBridge

SPI: The Rise of the AC Module With SunPower and SolarBridge

Eric Wesoff: October 18, 2011

“An AC module is as good as the microinverter it is attached to.” Alliances between SunPower and SolarBridge, Canadian and Array Power, Enphase and ?

Enphase Ships Its One-Millionth Microinverter

Enphase Ships Its One-Millionth Microinverter

Eric Wesoff: October 12, 2011

Enphase, 1,000,000. Everyone else, zero. For now.

SPI Themes: The Rise of Solar Balance-of-System and PV Electronics

SPI Themes: The Rise of Solar Balance-of-System and PV Electronics

Eric Wesoff: October 11, 2011

Azuray, ArrayPower, Involar, and many other new names are charging into the panel-level solar electronics market.