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October 27, 2009:

How Do You Define Green?

How do you divide up the green market? There are actually lots of ways.

How Do You Define Green?

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Growth, Market Share and Dynamic Change in The PV Inverter Industry

The PV inverter market, once short of innovation, has seen a surge of investment in the last few years.  Spurred by startup advances, established firms like SMA, Satcon, and National Semiconductor are developing new distributed PV electronics technologies in-house or through acquisition. This Special Report from Greentech Media, sponsored by Enphase Energy, takes a look at the state of innovation in the inverter market, VC investment activity, and the emerging leaders in the $2.4 billion PV inverter market.

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As the price of PV falls, the technology will become more competitively priced in Europe and the U.S. before its prices are competitive in China.

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Solar Startup Solasta Seeks Next Round

The solar firm was founded in 2006 with A round funding from Kleiner Perkins and claims its process could increase the efficiency of conventional amorphous silicon PV by up to 150 percent.

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Skyline Solar Plans Launch of First Product

The startup low-concentrating PV company plans to use data from its 27-kilowatt pilot project in Silicon Valley to tweak its final design for launching its first commercial product.

  • STR Debuts on NYSE to Lukewarm Reception

    UPDATE: STR’s stock closed up 31 percent. The encapsulant maker is the first solar company to go public for more than a year. But the timing is off as investors absorb some bad news about job cuts.

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    Ucilia Wang November 6, 2009
  • Vela Solaris Tackles the Solar Puzzle

    The Swiss startup licenses software for designing solar thermal heating and cooling or electric systems. Expect more software developers to jump into the solar market.

  • First Solar Buys Land Option From Ausra for Topaz Project

    The land, next to the parcel originally set aside for Topaz, will help First Solar avoid political tussles over building on farmland protected by Williamson Act.

  • Ampulse Raises $8M to Marry Silicon With Thin-Film Production

    UPDATE: Ampulse’s new board member, Daniel Leff of Globespan Capital Partners, says Ampulse is on a “radically different cost curve.” The startup’s technology deposits a thin layer of monocrystalline silicon on a flexible sheet of metal.

  • LDK Solar Shares Dive as Q-Cells Demands Money Back

    The German solar cell maker said LDK failed to deliver silicon wafers as promised, and is in legal dispute over the deposit it made to secure the supply back in 2007. UPDATE: LDK says Q-Cells wrongly terminated the contract. 

  • Cal May Add 365MW in 2009, Still Short of 20% Mandate

    Cal May Add 365MW in 2009, Still Short of 20% Mandate

    California’s utilities are signing gigawatts of renewable electricity contracts, but getting those electrons hasn’t been so easy.

  • Stimulus Money for Energy Companies Going, Going…

    Matt Rogers, Senior Advisor to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, says 85 percent of the selections for grants have been made.

  • SPI: Solar Quandaries and Strategies

    SPI: Solar Quandaries and Strategies

    Another Solar Power International has come and gone. This year was cautiously optimistic as the industry has begun to recover from a shaky 2008.

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