Huge Win for California Solar: CPUC Keeps Net Energy Metering Alive

Huge Win for California Solar: CPUC Keeps Net Energy Metering Alive

Herman K. Trabish: May 24, 2012

“This is a big, big win.”  Net Energy Metering gets a new lease on life and a well-defined cap.

MiaSolé Sets Efficiency Record for Solar on Flexible Substrate, Plus Recent PV Highs

MiaSolé Sets Efficiency Record for Solar on Flexible Substrate, Plus Recent PV Highs

Eric Wesoff: May 24, 2012

Despite difficult times, we’re seeing record-setting PV performance across all materials systems, from CIGS to organic solar cells to CdTe to c-Si to CPV to CIS to GaAs.

BrightSource: The Rumors of Concentrating Solar Power’s Demise Are Wrong

BrightSource: The Rumors of Concentrating Solar Power’s Demise Are Wrong

Herman K. Trabish: May 24, 2012

But are the promises of cost reduction as real as the promises of jobs?

What to Make of Geothermal’s Numbers

What to Make of Geothermal’s Numbers

Herman K. Trabish: May 24, 2012

Is the potential of geothermal energy starting to turn into growth?

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?

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

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

Have Wind, CSP, and PV Turned Against Each Other?

Have Wind, CSP, and PV Turned Against Each Other?

Herman K. Trabish: May 21, 2012

Or is it just that the utilities are starting to get picky?

Green Jobs: Simple Energy Gets Comverge Vet; MEMC’s CFO Swap; New CEOs at Oree, Pythagoras

Green Jobs: Simple Energy Gets Comverge Vet; MEMC’s CFO Swap; New CEOs at Oree, Pythagoras

Jeff St. John: May 21, 2012

The smart grid action is moving to the softer side of the grid.

GTM Podcast: New Angles on the SolarWorld China Module Trade Case

GTM Podcast: New Angles on the SolarWorld China Module Trade Case

Eric Wesoff: May 18, 2012

The first in a series of podcasts from Greentech Media.