Today's Date:
Friday, May 09, 2008
Company Spotlight
May 08, 2008
Shares of the Colorado-based residential solar installer fall during its Nasdaq debut as Akeena, one of the world's largest public installers, misses earnings and lowers its full-year forecast.
May 08, 2008
The company plans to begin construction on its first commercial plant, next to a Southern California landfill, by the third quarter and to deliver cellulosic ethanol from it next year.
May 07, 2008
MTI MicroFuel Cells partners with a mystery digital-camera manufacturer and says the agreement could lead to products in as little as two years. The company plans to launch its first products in other applications next year.
May 06, 2008
The cellulosic-ethanol company received $10 million in equity from Marathon Oil. But will companies like Mascoma suffer from the public backlash against other biofuels?
May 06, 2008
The electric sports-car startup picks Santa Monica Boulevard for its first store. But if it wants to do more than have some fun, it will need to make more cars -- and eventually expand its service centers, an analyst says.
May 06, 2008
The thin-film company inks a deal with the Architectural Glass & Aluminum Co. to develop building-integrated solar products a week after the announcement of a similar partnership between Dow Chemical and Global Solar.
May 05, 2008
The ethanol company blames a long permitting process that delayed a project in Minnesota for more than a year. The story could become more common, as one analyst says public concern about biofuels is making permits harder to get.
May 02, 2008
If you're like most office workers, some 20 percent of the pages you print end up in the recycling or waste bin the same day. Xerox researchers have invented an erasable paper that fades after a day so it can be reused again and again.
May 02, 2008
The Palo Alto Research Center plans to launch a venture-capital-backed company that can improve solar cells' efficiency with thinner electricity-conducting grid lines. The center also hopes to commercialize a low-energy water-filtration technology, reusable printing paper and energy-management software for data centers, all in the next year.
April 30, 2008
Startup Sungevity, founded by former Greenpeace manager Danny Kennedy, wants to make it cheap and easy for suburbanites to go solar.
April 30, 2008
The thin-film solar company has turned down up to $20 million in funding for one DOE project and partner Dow Chemical has selected a competitor, Global Solar, to take its place in another.
April 30, 2008
With more than 700 megawatts of projects in its pipeline and at least $71.7 million in funding, Optisolar has big plans for thin film. So why have you heard so little about them?
April 29, 2008
The LDK Investor Group says Best Solar, a thin-film startup founded by LDK CEO Xiaofeng Peng, placed the $1.9 billion order that Applied Materials reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in March.
April 29, 2008
The A123Systems subsidiary starts accepting orders for a kit that turns Toyota Prius hybrids into plug-ins. If it's successful, it could drive car manufacturers to roll out their plug-in hybrids more quickly, an analyst says.
April 29, 2008
The Los Angeles-based company comes out of stealth mode with a solar-power system capable of concentrating sunlight beyond what normally would be the burning point. It plans to begin producing its concentrators, named Xtreme, in about a year.
April 25, 2008
The biofuel startup says it will locate its 40,000-gallon-per-year demonstration plant near Pittsburgh. The project will cost $25 million.
April 23, 2008
U.S.-based Amyris, whose biofuel technology comes from its development of anti-malarial drugs, teams up with Brazilian ethanol distributor Crystalsev in a joint venture to make biodiesel.