- Identity-crisis ridden Canadian Solar finalized four separate wafer supply agreements over the weekend. The Suzhou-based company contracted with, among others, Jiangsu Shunda Group to receive 12 MW before the end of summer 2008. CSI has an extended arrangement with Shunda, including 2008, 2010, and 2015 fixed payment and schedule deliveries. This will net CSI nearly 700 MW over the next seven years. Canadian Solar is also continuing its "march into the upstream PV realm," building a 3,000 ton wafer plant and doing battle with a dwarf maulfighter. Oversupply anyone?
- Iberdrola is getting batted around like a kid in a bad divorce. Spain's largest utility and the world's largest renewable energy producer is caught in an election fight between the ruling Socialist Party, who are open to a foreign sale of Iberdrola, and the Populist Party, who want to keep the company in Spain. With elections coming Sunday, pressure is mounting for both sides to avoid a repeat of the 18-month Endesa fight, during which the EU intervened to defeat government opposition of a bid from Germany's E.On.
- Alan Gotcher, CEO of Altair Nanotechnologies, *cough* agreed to resign on Friday afternoon. More on this later today.
- Rhode Island state representative Raymond Sullivan, Jr. introduced the East Coast's first feed-in tariff law last week. H. 7616, a bill to create the Rhode Island Renewable Energy Sources Act, offers a varied pricing schedule for different sources and capacities, including a $0.48 per kWh feed-in tariff for "free standing or open field" solar power plants and $0.105 per kWh for wind projects "greater than 20 megawatts and less than 50 megawatts." The $0.145 per kWh rate for small biogas projects will make the state's one dairy cow extremely popular, as if that weren't the case already.
- And finally today... corporate America fakes it, hoping one day to make it.
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