In an ever tightening solar market, the weak may only have a few more months to live, warned MiaSolé VP Marketing Rob DeLine in an interview with AOL Energy.
“Cost is king. If you don’t have a path to a cost structure that allows you some breathing space you’re going to have some trouble,” he said. Keep reading →
“It looks too ugly and it’s too expensive.”
Those are the two impediments to domestic solar, according to David Field, President & CEO of California-based OneRoof Energy. Keep reading →
A Pennsylvania court ruling has raised questions about the validity of billions of dollars in leases bought by oil and gas companies to access the vast Marcellus shale natural gas resource in Pennsylvania.
The state Superior Court has ruled that a lower court should obtain expert opinions as to whether the right to capitalise on shale gas belongs to the owner of the gas rights or the mineral rights. Keep reading →
In a world of heightened tension between Democrats and Republicans intensified by a seemingly endless fiscal crisis, the Solyndra bankruptcy has been a crisis of its time, prompting shock and escalating rounds of blame.
Republicans blame the Obama administration for heavy government spending and fiscal imprudence while Democrats point out that it was in fact the Bush administration that initially singled Solyndra out for government financing. Caught in the scapegoating is a saturated solar manufacturing sector that is struggling to stay afloat as prices for PV panels drop and renewable tax credits run out at the end of the year. Read more on renewable energy financing: After Solyndra: Renewable Energy Financing 3.0. Keep reading →
Though GE is over 100 years old, it prides itself on keeping pace with innovation.
At a September 20 investor meeting, GE executives reviewed the company’s performance over the last few years and assessed where it is going. The company has a strong international portfolio and GE Power & Water is now generating 25% of the world’s electrical generation according to Steve Bolze, GE Senior Vice President and GE Power & Water President and CEO. Keep reading →
Topaz Solar Farm Will Not Meet DOE Loan Guarantee Deadline http://t.co/mKrB5Bjf @FirstSolar
Oil and gas supplies will struggle to keep up with world demand growth, making energy prices more expensive and more volatile in the long term, the head of Europe’s largest oil company has warned.
Peter Voser, the chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, told the Financial Times: “We will have a lot of volatility ahead of us that we cannot avoid … for energy prices in general.” Keep reading →
A technology that gets a lot of hype–and federal US dollars–but produced only about 0.1% of the world’s electricity in 2010, solar has become the planting ground for young entrepreneurs hoping to make the technology more affordable and more attractive to consumers.
Some have devised unique financing plans, while others have simply attached panels to personal devices like motorcycles and boats. Keep reading →
The story of Solyndra, the Silicon Valley solar technology start-up that received half a billion dollars in loan guarantees from the federal government only to go belly-up two weeks ago, has much to offer policy junkies and devotees of the eternal partisan showdown on Capitol Hill.
The drama, in this context, is typically framed with images of a boosterish President Obama visiting the company’s whitewashed manufacturing plant in early 2010, touting its value as an emblem of his nascent green economy, and then, more recently, with images of newly unemployed Solyndra workers wandering out of the company’s facilities — or F.B.I. agents filing in. Keep reading →
After a stint at McKinsey, Harvard graduate Jonathan Doochin found himself in Washington DC. Noticing the abundant government offerings for renewables, he decided to co-found an energy subsidiary for his employer Clark Realty Capital, called Clark Energy Group, which successfully won a $5 billion dollar IDIQ government contract for government retrofits and renewables development.
He quickly realized that federal and state incentives for renewables development were lucrative business opportunities. During business school, Doochin worked for the Department of Energy and realized that scattered information on incentives left most people in the dark about how and what they could access. His dream was to make all the documents and forms machine-readable so that they could be plugged into a computer model and easily searchable. Keep reading →
