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Solar PV Manufacturer Solar Frontier Expanding Globally As Japanese Solar Market Softens

Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:08:00 +0000

After three years of brisk sales in Japan driven by an aggressive Feed-in Tariff (FIT), Solar Frontier is looking to expand into the global market and still hopes to build a manufacturing plant in the U.S. according to the company president and CEO Atsuhiko Hirano who spoke with RenewableEnergyWorld.com during Intersolar North America.

Solar PV Manufacturer Solar Frontier Expanding Globally As Japanese Solar Market Softens

Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:08:00 +0000

Battery Competition Brewing in Hawaii Courtesy of New Sony Venture

Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:06:00 +0000

It hasn’t taken long for Hawai’i to emerge as a bustling hive of activity revolving around intelligent battery storage technology. From well-established market leaders such as LG Chem and Samsung SDI to fast rising young companies such as Tesla/SolarCity and Stem, it’s safe to say that practically every company looking to stake a claim in the nascent market for distributed battery storage solutions has established a presence in the Aloha State.

Delays for Residential Solar PV Interconnections Up 68 Percent

Tue, 14 Jul 2015 20:27:00 +0000

According to a new report released by EQ Research, wait times for the activation of residential solar PV systems in the U.S. rose 68 percent from 2013 to 2014. This development points to the rapid growth of distributed generation solar and highlights inefficiencies that are preventing utilities from meeting the rapidly increasing demand for grid interconnection.

The Latest Sign That Coal Is Getting Killed

Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:30:00 +0000

Coal is having a hard time lately. U.S. power plants are switching to natural gas, environmental restrictions are kicking in, and the industry is being derided as the world’s No. 1 climate criminal. Prices have crashed, sure, but for a real sense of coal’s diminishing prospects, check out what’s happening in the bond market.

The Latest Sign That Coal Is Getting Killed

Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:30:00 +0000

Intersolar Europe 2015: Spirits Up, Stats Down

Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:11:00 +0000

Intersolar Europe, billed at the world’s leading exhibition for the solar industry, is indeed big. But Intersolar Europe 2015, one of five Intersolar-branded gatherings around the globe each year, was not as large as the annual convergence to the German birthplace of the solar age used to be.

Meet China’s Clean Energy Wildcatters Who Are $9 Billion Richer

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 13:00:00 +0000

Chinese clean energy entrepreneurs worth $9.13 billion in 2015 are starting to turn heads — the wildcatters of solar energy. To some extent, they’re riding the froth of Chinese equity markets. The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index is up about 40 percent since Jan. 1, compared with an increase of about 3 percent for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

For All Their Talk, Colleges Divest Little After Climate Protest

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:00:00 +0000

Stanford, Oxford and Georgetown universities have won praise for promising to purge their endowments of direct investments in coal, embracing the fight against climate change.

For All Their Talk, Colleges Divest Little After Climate Protest

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:00:00 +0000

Stanford, Oxford and Georgetown universities have won praise for promising to purge their endowments of direct investments in coal, embracing the fight against climate change.