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LDK Solar Gets a Hand from the Chinese Government
10:00AM 7/08/2011
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LDK Solar recently announced a $240 million investment by the China Development Bank, which gives it more breathing room to deal with its short-term debt situation. Right now, the market is pricing LDK at around $7 a share. Trefis thinks its worth $12. Wondering why? Read on ...
Research firm Strategy Analytics projects that global installations of concentrated photovoltaic technologies, which use lenses, mirrors or other optics to concentrate sunlight and direct it in to solar cells, will nearly triple every year for the next four years.
Americans Love Green Energy, but Will They Pay for It?
6:00PM 2/11/2011
While more than three-quarters of Americans have a favorable impression of solar energy, very few have been willing to invest in the technology. Is this about to change?
Smart Money Aims to Power the $200 Billion Smart Grid Sector
9:05AM 12/29/2009
The emphasis in alternative energy used to be on new ways to generate power. Now, it's on finding better ways to conserve it and make the power grid more efficient. The so-called smart grid is key to that goal, and fortunes will be spent -- and made -- on making it a reality.
Solar Power Partners is the third-largest independent solar-energy producer in the U.S. CEO Bob Powell discusses the hot topics in his industry today, including when solar power generation will be competitive with coal or gas-fired plants.
Nancy Floyd was early to the greentech investing game. A prominent venture capitalist, she founded and remains the managing director of Nth Power, an early-stage venture capital fund based in San Francisco. Nth Power, a $180 million fund, has seen a number of successful exits, including companies...
Solar glut is temporary, demand to catch up by 2012
7:00PM 11/14/2009
The oversupply problem plaguing the solar panel industry may be coming to a close. A glut of panels caused prices to plunge this year, calling into question the future of the industry, as well as the individual fortunes of manufacturers. An increase in demand from Germany is helping to consume the...
On a recent trip down to Silicon Valley from San Francisco, I got a chance to sit down for an extended discussion with Brian Hinman. He is one of a growing number of A-list venture capitalists who have jumped the fence from IT into alternative energy and greentech ventures. Oak Investment Partners...
There's hope the sun may shine on the solar panel industry again soon enough. The decline in solar panel prices has been dramatic over the past year, as China's government-subsidized solar panel manufacturing companies have ramped up production and flooded the market with cheap photovoltaic cells....
Cleatech is back in vogue, and financiers are jumping to get back into the green game. The latest quarterly cleantech funding numbers, released Tuesday by consultancies the Cleantech Group and Deloitte, show that preliminary results for the third quarter -- tallying clean technology venture...
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