Smart Grid Market in China, Japan and South Korea to Hit $19 Billion by 2016

Smart Grid Market in China, Japan and South Korea to Hit $19 Billion by 2016

STAFF: May 23, 2012

New report from GTM Research pinpoints the strategies for engaging Asia’s top smart grid markets.

SunRun’s $60M Round Leads a Small Streak of Solar VC Funding

SunRun’s $60M Round Leads a Small Streak of Solar VC Funding

Eric Wesoff: May 23, 2012

Solar firms SoloPower, SunRun, Solantro, SolFocus, and Gen 110 win funding from the VC community.

Is Net Energy Metering for Solar Power a Subsidy?

Is Net Energy Metering for Solar Power a Subsidy?

Herman K. Trabish: May 23, 2012

The true costs and benefits of “the civil rights legislation for solar”

The Bad News in CPV: Amonix Layoffs and Soitec Losses

The Bad News in CPV: Amonix Layoffs and Soitec Losses

Eric Wesoff: May 23, 2012

Can CPV survive in the face of this solar economy?

Thin Film Manufacturing in the Sub-Dollar-Per-Watt Market: Part II

Thin Film Manufacturing in the Sub-Dollar-Per-Watt Market: Part II

MJ Shiao: May 23, 2012

What happened to the promise of thin-film PV?

Enter the Dragon: China and the World’s Greatest Smart Grid Opportunity

Enter the Dragon: China and the World’s Greatest Smart Grid Opportunity

Kamil Bojanczyk: May 23, 2012

China goes big in grid, and it’s all about transmission, distribution automation and smart meters.

How Companies Are Learning to Utilize Data

Video: How Companies Are Learning to Utilize Data

Staff: May 23, 2012

"Data science -- that's now a field that's exponentially increased. [...] We're in this learning mode." What does the data science field mean for utilities and vendors? According to Domenic Armano from Johnson Controls, we're soon going to find out.

SoloPower Raises More Funding for Flexible CIGS Solar Panels

SoloPower Raises More Funding for Flexible CIGS Solar Panels

Eric Wesoff: May 23, 2012

A modest $7.1 million round for the DOE loan guarantee recipient

Leafully Wins Green Button Apps Contest

Leafully Wins Green Button Apps Contest

Katherine Tweed: May 22, 2012

Forgoing kilowatt-hours for trees gets top honors for a Green Button apps contest.

ES-Select: Match.com for Renewable Developers and Energy Storage

ES-Select: Match.com for Renewable Developers and Energy Storage

Herman K. Trabish: May 22, 2012

For any renewable, the DOE’s tool means the perfect storage technology is just a click away.

Update: Solexel, Stealthy Solar Startup, Adds SunPower to KPCB VC Syndicate

Update: Solexel, Stealthy Solar Startup, Adds SunPower to KPCB VC Syndicate

Eric Wesoff: May 22, 2012

Solexel falls in the very-thin-silicon, kerfless-wafer school along with Twin Creeks, AstroWatt, SiGen, Crystal Solar and 1366.

German Solar Death Watch: Inventux Joins the List of German Solar Insolvencies

German Solar Death Watch: Inventux Joins the List of German Solar Insolvencies

Eric Wesoff: May 22, 2012

Inventux (a-Si) joins Germany’s Q-Cells, Soltecture, Odersun, Solar Millennium, Sovello, and Solon in the group of extremely troubled or shuttered German PV manufacturing firms.

CPV Roundup: SolFocus Funding, 5MW Order for Solar Junction, GreenVolts, Amonix

CPV Roundup: SolFocus Funding, 5MW Order for Solar Junction, GreenVolts, Amonix

Eric Wesoff: May 22, 2012

A month of modest forward progress in the world of concentrating photovoltaics

How Analytics Can Solve Expensive Energy Problems

Video: How Analytics Can Solve Expensive Energy Problems

Staff: May 22, 2012

"What is the most expensive problem that big data can solve in the energy world?” Con Edison, Efficiency 2.0 and Johnson Controls respond. From the Clean Energy Connections series.

One-Third of US Homes Have a Smart Meter

One-Third of US Homes Have a Smart Meter

Katherine Tweed: May 22, 2012

Can the first 36 million meters prove they’re worth the cost?