The PV inverter market, once short of innovation, has seen a surge of investment in the last few years. Spurred by startup advances, established firms like SMA, Satcon, and National Semiconductor are developing new distributed PV electronics technologies in-house or through acquisition. This Special Report from Greentech Media, sponsored by Enphase Energy, takes a look at the state of innovation in the inverter market, VC investment activity, and the emerging leaders in the $2.4 billion PV inverter market.
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The solar firm was founded in 2006 with A round funding from Kleiner Perkins and claims its process could increase the efficiency of conventional amorphous silicon PV by up to 150 percent.
The start of the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference prompted announcements of new products, deals and partnerships
The solar thermal energy developer decided to bow out of an area that may receive the national monument designation, which would prevent other solar companies from continuing their projects also.
The thin-film solar cell maker says its products have a top efficiency of 15.45 percent, and it is branching out of the “dinosaur glass module” market to get a slice of the building materials market.
The solar thermal equipment maker, which shifted its business model over the past year, plans to announce solar thermal projects in the next few months.
A spat over licensing and labor couldn’t be resolved by state lawmakers when they considered a bill to expand the net metering program for solar and wind energy system owners.
The software developer plans to launch software to help developers engineering solar farms. The move is a departure from the business of providing tools for managing energy output and detecting problems at solar power plants.
This excerpt from GTM Research’s upcoming report United States Downstream PV Market: Opportunity, Strategy and Policy takes a look at the Cash Grant program.
Robert Gillette, who will replace Michael Ahearn come Oct. 1, is set to get $5 million sign-on bonus and much more in stock and options.
The Swiss factory equipment maker has lined up its first U.S. customer, who plans to build an initial 90-megawatt plant in an idled Ford assembly plant near Detroit.
CEO Michael Ahearn says First Solar plans to carry out an ‘IP transfer’ by training Chinese companies how to engineer solar power projects.
The Engineering firm will build and help finance three power plants totaling 440 megawatts in the California desert.
The CIGS thin-film solar maker has posted two white papers about its technology and products, and it has named some of its customers who have inked $4.1 billion of contracts.
The solar thin-film company has signed a preliminary agreement for the project in Inner Mongolia. It appears to be the first non-Chinese equipment maker to announce such a large-scale power plant.
UPDATED: The California startup CEO Conrad Burke talks about its manufacturing plans and the six customers who plan to make cells with Innovalight’s silicon ink technology.
As detailed in GTM Research’s recently published report PV Manufacturing in the United States, momentum for new plant construction is building rapidly, but will this be a short-term fad or a more sustained trend?
The California CIGS thin-film company breaks ground on its second factory complex, which will be partly financed by the federal $535 million loan.
The Germany company, which makes centralized inverters, is betting on a technology that’s finding a greater acceptance in the solar energy market.
The fast-growing company has snagged an aerospace exec to replace current CEO Mike Ahearn.
Nanosolar says its has a big announcement next week. Could it be the long-awaited message about commercial production?
The company, which recently emerged from stealth, has a new slant on the distributed electronics angle.