A top executive from Advanced Energy Industries today admitted the company would have risked relegation to the second tier of inverter companies without its recent acquisition of Refusol, a leading European inverter manufacturer.
A San Francisco-based crowd sourcing solar financing start-up yesterday announced a new programme with a UK solar products supplier to developing countries after last week announcing that it had repaid its first loan to investors within just nine months.
With the tectonic plates shifting in the global solar market, Felicity Carus tracks some of the trends that will emerge as the industry comes out of its period of consolidation.
Futurist and Google collaborator Ray Kurzweil has predicted a world entirely powered by solar. Having heard him speak earlier this month, Felicity Carus wonders whether he could be right.
China has knocked the US from a shaky top place in global clean energy rankings as worldwide investment declined, according to Pew's Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race?
California's two largest investor-owned utilities added the most new solar power to their systems in 2012 in an annual ranking of electric utilities released today.
The California Solar Initiative has been a runaway success, driving over 1.5GW of installations, but its days are now numbered. In the search for ways to keep the momentum going, community solar is emerging as a hot contender says Felicity Carus.
Real Goods Solar chief executive this week admitted that 2012 should have been "a much better year" for the company given the remarkable growth of solar in the US.
The world's first solar-powered plane will begin its attempt at a coast to coast crossing of the United States in May powered by cells from SunPower, it was announced yesterday.
