Today's Date:
Friday, May 09, 2008
Solar
May 09, 2008
In an attempt to lay rumors of technical difficulties to rest, the thin-film developer opens its doors to Greentech Media. CEO Joseph Laia says he expects to start shipping thin-film solar panels before the year's end.
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 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 06, 2008
In an industry that has seen only a few exits, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association predict more IPOs and acquisitions next year. Meanwhile, they say venture investments grew 45 percent in 2007.
May 05, 2008
Kleiner Perkins and Generation Investment Management close greentech funds, while SunRay, Sunovia, SkyFuel, Mascoma, Range Fuels and ReliOn – among others – score cash.
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
The thin-film darling's shares rise 2% after the company beats first-quarter earnings expectations and raises its forecast for the full 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 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 28, 2008
Among other companies, Xunlight, Infinia, SolarOne and Hydrogen Engine Center closed deals in the last week. And the U.S. Department of Energy committed $243 million to greentech.
April 25, 2008
Idealab CEO Bill Gross, who helped concentrating solar-thermal company eSolar raise $130 million this week, says he doesn't think solar companies are overvalued.
April 24, 2008
More than half of the staff scientists at the U.S. EPA say they have experienced political interference, according to a study from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Meanwhile, the California Clean Energy Fund opens a new center as its public policy arm.
April 22, 2008
As the last round of U.S. presidential primaries kicks off in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, also known as Earth Day, the cleantech community reflects on which candidate to call its own.