In 2009, Fisker’s COO said the company was “nowhere” without a loan guarantee.
The sad, inevitable results of the VC bubble and solar shakeout
A restart with CIGS instead of CdTe for a vintage solar startup. Jim Woolsey joins the Board.
Utility Smart Grid Outlook in North America 2013: Technologies, Strategies & Case Studies
The Global PV Inverter Landscape 2013: Technologies, Markets, and Survivors
The Networked Grid 150: The End-to-End Smart Grid Vendor Ecosystem Report and Rankings 2013
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The twilight of standalone CIGS solar startups
Disrupting how solar cells are manufactured
Waiting for the “next big thing”
A new bill called SMART-SALE seeks to stop future bankruptcy sales of federally funded companies to foreign owners—but won’t stop A123 from going to China.
A federal committee weighs the national security value of A123’s assets, as opposition to a takeover by China’s Wanxiang mounts.
The CIGS player with the biggest photovoltaic VC round of 2011 gets another $25 million.
Wanxiang beats Johnson Controls, NEC, and Siemens for the American battery maker’s non-government businesses.
Global Solar, now defunct, was once a CIGS manufacturer in full-scale production on a flexible substrate.
Wanxiang, Johnson Controls, dozens more want parts of A123—but the U.S. government wants its say.
SunEdison considering the residential PV market. Look out SolarCity?
“I would go to lawmakers, throw a quarter down, and say, ‘That’s all I want. Twenty-five cents for every dollar you give the Koch brothers and Exxon.’”
The unfolding saga of an insolvent U.S. advanced battery company and its competing suitors in bankruptcy court
There is nothing like a natural resource war to give you religion about renewable energy.
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