Situation: New Jersey Hits 1 GW Solar Milestone
http://www.solarfeeds.com » You’ve got hand it to New Jersey. For a non-Sunbelt state, it kicks ass in solar power. This is something we’ve noted before, but it deserves mention now, because sometime...
View Article3-D Printing and Energy Efficiency
http://www.solarfeeds.com » 3-D printing, also known by its technical name of “additive manufacturing,” is a concept that makes tech-heads and entrepreneurs bubble with excitement. President Obama even...
View ArticleThe Biggest Solar PV Projects in Latin America
http://www.solarfeeds.com » As of April 1, 2013, 9.8 gigawatts of large-scale PV projects had been announced in Latin America and the Caribbean. Currently, the generating capacity of projects in...
View ArticleWill Nanosolar Survive?
http://www.solarfeeds.com » Earlier this year Nanosolar went through a round of layoffs. Our sources claimed 75 percent of the staff was let go with 60 days’ pay. Here’s a California WARN notice...
View ArticleFacebook Announces Real-Time Data Center Efficiency Stats
http://www.solarfeeds.com » Facebook has just taken a bit of internal data center energy efficiency wizardry and made it available to the world. On Thursday, it opened access to the minute-by-minute...
View ArticleSolar Throwdown: Rooftops vs. Utilities
http://www.solarfeeds.com » It’s the utilities vs. rooftop solar, and with PV becoming more accessible and installations soaring, the fight is heating up. In San Antonio, the municipally owned CPS...
View ArticleM2M Communications: Will it Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
http://www.solarfeeds.com » Call it what you will — the “industrial internet,” the “internet of things,” or “machine-to-machine communications” (M2M) — the seamless connectivity of devices is becoming...
View ArticleABB Gobbles Up Inverter Firm Power-One
http://www.solarfeeds.com » ABB acquiring Power-One (PWER), the number two global PV inverter company, for $1 billion is certainly a dramatic way to open Greentech Media’s Solar Summit starting today...
View ArticleIn Focus: The Post-Subsidy Solar World
http://www.solarfeeds.com » Let’s start out with a fact: the free market for energy is a myth. Every country uses subsidies in some way to encourage production and dictate consumption of different...
View ArticleThe Smart Appliance Revolution Has Started
Whirlpool is taking a new step in bringing “smart,” digitally networked appliances into the mainstream — it’s actually putting them on sale. Over the past month or so, the Benton Falls, Mich.-based...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Energy Efficiency Industry
Today we’re announcing the official launch of our energy efficiency channel. Okay, so it’s not exactly “new.” It’s more of a re-launch. You’ve probably noticed our energy efficiency coverage for some...
View ArticleSuntech Update: Still Alive, but Badly Injured
Suntech, once the globe’s solar panel leader, recently declared insolvency. Yingli has replaced Suntech as the global solar panel leader. We are watching Suntech’s “ambiguous bankruptcy” as the company...
View ArticleApple Discusses their Energy Efficiency Efforts
You don’t see Apple Inc. employees speaking at very many events, other than their own product launches. So hearing from Apple’s Energy Manager at Friday’s SVLG Sustainability Summit was an event...
View ArticleBloom Energy Raises Another $130M
Fuel cell “startup” Bloom Energy just raised $130 million more in venture capital, according to a scoop from Fortune. That takes the VC funding to beyond $1.1 billion for this firm and makes it one...
View ArticleNextEra Gobbles Up Smart Energy Capital
NextEra Energy Resources, has acquired Smart Energy Capital, a commercial solar project developer with more than 75 megawatts of PV deployed across a number of states, according to sources close to the...
View ArticleSolarCity Raises $500M
SolarCity (Nasdaq: SCTY), a provider of distributed energy, just announced a $500 million lease financing agreement with Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS). That translates to more than 100 megawatts of solar...
View ArticleBloom Energy Sees Revenue Drop in Q1
Dan Primack of Fortune again has the scoop on revenue at fuel cell “startup” Bloom Energy. And it doesn’t look great. Bloom had $42 million of pro forma revenue and negative $61 million of pro forma...
View ArticleSecuritization and Renewable Energy
If the 2008 mortgage meltdown did anything to educate Americans about the complicated world of finance, it was to teach them about securitization. Securitization is the practice of pooling disparate...
View ArticleApple Hires Lisa Jackson
Apple, which hasn’t always had a peachy relationship with the environmental community, is winning plaudits for its hiring of Lisa Jackson, who recently departed after a four-year stint as administrator...
View ArticleNew York State: Solar Bill to Become a Law
Momentum is high for major solar legislation in New York State, but it’s a race to the finish to get it passed before lawmakers go home for the year. The New York Solar Bill, which would enact a...
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