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Along the waterfront of the Charles River Basin, where rooftop access is scarce, solar panels rarely see the light of day.
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You just bought a large-scale solar array. The performance expectations you have for your new array, like a new car, are high. Just like the information on the window sticker that claims great gas mileage, your solar array comes with a forecast of how many MWh it should produce o...
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Richard Baillie, Contributor
April 26, 2012
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New capacity also increasingly comes as centralised projects rather than distributed PV — another major structural change for U.S. utilities.
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Two American solar heavyweights built on overseas manufacturing are scaling back operations in an effort to keep up with a shifting landscape.
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In picking South Africa for last year's meet-up, the COP-17 climate change talks prompted some inevitable grumbles. Why was the global climate change industry holding its jamboree in a country that, despite its commitment to renewables, pumps out so much CO2?
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Jeremy Wilcox, Contributor
April 10, 2012
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Economic renewable energy development typically requires that countries exploit their natural renewable resources with subsidies reducing in line with technology costs and market maturity. Thailand has adopted such an approach to renewable development and while its biomass has th...
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Robin Yapp, Contributor
April 9, 2012
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In May 2011 Carlos Slim, the Mexican business magnate, predicted that Chile will be the first Latin American nation to attain the status of a developed country. Chile's GDP per capita of US$15,400 in 2010 puts it far ahead of most of its neighbours and with economic growth for 20...
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The solar industry is moving to the south, and for concentrating photovoltaics (CPV), this is a good thing.
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Mexico hardly registers as a must-tackle solar market, yet it may well be where concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) technology will bloom. SolFocus said Thursday it's clinched a deal to supply its CPV equipment to a project that will be built in 50-megawatt phases and is planned to ...
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The thick binder sat on the corner of J.W. Postal's desk for more than two weeks – not a good place to be in the fast-moving world of project finance. For someone whose job it is to review proposals, it was always close enough to keep in mind but far enough away to ensure it woul...
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Along the waterfront of the Charles River Basin, where rooftop access is scarce, solar panels rarely see the light of day.
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Two high-profile Senate Democrats introduced a proposal Tuesday that if passed would set domestic requirements on solar installations looking to qualify for the 30 percent Investment Tax Credit.
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Sovello has joined a growing roster of solar companies that have filed for bankruptcy over the past year, the German company said Monday. The announcement came after another German solar manufacturer,...
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I read a bucket of press releases about solar companies every week, and if I’m to literally believe their words, then there are thousands of “leading” solar manufacturers and servi...
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Emerging Australian company CBD Energy has an agreement in place to acquire California-based Westinghouse Solar in an all-stock deal that will give the company better access to the growing American so...
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First Solar, which recently announced it was shuttering its Germany facility, idling lines in Malaysia and laying off 30 percent of its global workforce, detailed some of the struggles facing the comp...
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It came much more quickly than the three years it took the Ferdinand Magellan expedition, but not nearly as fast as the 80 days it took Jules Verne's fictitious Phileas Fogg.
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China, the target of criticism and legal action from those who contend it unfairly subsidizes its export market, is now cutting support for some of its own solar generation.
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Performance optimization technologies can scale to bring "intelligence" to the management of the world's largest PV arrays.
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When California funded the CSI Solar Thermal program in 2010, part of the funding included a carve-out for marketing the program and educating the public about solar hot water’s benefits to co...
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How will new technologies be used to diagnose array impairments with an unprecedented level of accuracy and specificity?
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