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Video: U.S. Solar Growth Coming, But Will Manufacturing Follow?

by Steve Leone, Associate Editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com | July 26, 2011 | Post Your Comment
While the number and magnitude of projects in the pipeline make for a bright outlook for the American solar industry, the future is anything but clear for domestic manufacturing. Full Article
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Financing Offshore Wind Farms in the U.S.

by Andy Wickless, Associate Director, Renewable Energy, Navigant | July 25, 2011 | 2 Comments
As most readers are aware, the first major U.S. offshore wind farm to begin development was the Cape Wind project in Massachusetts. The project has been in the development phase for over a decade. The major barriers to development... Full Article
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Businesses Unite in Support of RGGI

by Renewable Energy World Editors | July 25, 2011 | Post Your Comment
A group of Northeast-based companies are uniting to voice support to continue the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Full Article
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Putting Damaged Land To Good Use Part II: Coal To Solar Transition

by Dan Hofmann, President, RegenEn Solar | July 25, 2011 | 5 Comments
I had such a great response to my recent commentary that I thought it would be worth the time to take an in depth look at the implications of such a massive undertaking. Now that we know it's physically possible for solar photovol... Full Article
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Good Timing: What DuPont Gains By Buying Innovalight

by Ucilia Wang, Contributor | July 26, 2011 | Post Your Comment
DuPont's acquisition of Innovalight, announced Monday, comes at an opportune time. The price of solar energy components and panels are falling quickly, and manufacturers are scrambling to cut costs in order to compete effectively.... Full Article
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Germany Passes More Aggressive Renewable Energy Law

by Paul Gipe, Contributor | July 25, 2011 | 2 Comments
Despite widespread rumors in North America that Germany was abandoning its system of Advanced Renewable Tariffs, the country's upper chamber of parliament, the Bundesrat, approved the latest revision of its pioneering Renewable En... Full Article
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Farms of the Future: Bio-oil, Biochar from Biomass

by Lance Nixon, South Dakota State University News | July 22, 2011 | 6 Comments
Rural landscapes of the future might have pyrolysis plants instead of grain elevators on every horizon — processing centers where farmers would bring bulky crops such as switchgrass to be made into crude oil. Full Article
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Big Corporations Still Nibbling at Solar

by Dana Blankenhorn | July 26, 2011 | Post Your Comment
Big corporations continue to nibble on solar energy, refusing to commit to it as their central strategy but investing intelligently, so they can move in at their own pace. The latest example is DuPont, which is buying InnovaLight... Full Article
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New Tool Available to Assess Impact of Dams

by Renewable Energy World Network Editors | July 26, 2011 | Post Your Comment
A new tool to help policy makers better assess the costs and benefits of building dams could change the way nations decide to develop hydroelectric power. Full Article
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Renewable Energy: It's a National Security Issue

by Thoman Buonomo, Contributor | July 26, 2011 | 2 Comments
As a U.S. Army veteran who has seen many fellow veterans suffer from the physical and psychological consequences of war, it is disheartening to observe an absence of discussion within the renewable energy community on the connecti... Full Article
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Will Power Optimizers Reduce BOS?

July 13, 2011 | Post Your Comment
Gil Miller from Azuray Technologies talks with Jennifer Runyon about reducing balance of systems costs and explains the role that MPPT will play in doing that.Watch Video
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Emerging Thin-Film Maker Plans Major Growth in U.S. Manufacturing

July 14, 2011 | 1 Comment
Russ Kanjorski, VP of Marketing for Abound Solar, discusses his company's growing U.S. manufacturing presence, which includes a plan to triple its current 65MW capacity plant in Colorado while laying the groundwork to move into a ... Watch Video
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For Offshore Wind to Thrive, Collaboration A Must

by Steve Leone, Associate Editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com | July 28, 2011 | 1 Comment
If the European Wind Energy Association projections prove accurate, offshore capacity across the continent will leapfrog past traditional onshore wind developments sometime after 2030. By 2050, it predicts, offshore will be the do... Full Article

Video: Social Media and Web Innovations on the Rise for Solar Industry

by Meg Cichon, Associate Editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com | July 27, 2011 | Post Your Comment
During a trade show, it's a good sign when an exhibit has a big crowd. This year at Intersolar NA, a lot of these crowds formed to check out creative new applications or innovative online tools. Social media and other web platform... Full Article
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So, How Much Would That Mandate Really Cost You?

by Steve Leone | July 28, 2011 | Post Your Comment
It’s long been the contention by critics that if the United States were to adopt a Renewable Energy Standard (RES) or a Clean Energy Standard (CES), electricity costs would skyrocket and our nation’s delicate e... Full Article

Comverge, Diverge, or Merge?

by Tom Konrad, Contributor | July 28, 2011 | Post Your Comment
As part of my ongoing series on energy management companies (see these articles on World Energy Solutions (XWES) and EnerNOC (ENOC)) I spoke with Comverge CEO Blake Young. Full Article

Solar Farming a Transformative Resource for India

by Darshan Goswami | July 27, 2011 | 2 Comments
Imagine a crop that can be harvested daily on the most barren desert and arid land, with no fertilizer or tillage, and that produces no harmful emissions. Imagine an energy source so bountiful that it can provide many times more e... Full Article

Solar Battle of the Bands at Intersolar NA: Much More Than Good PR

by Tor 'Solar Fred' Valenza | July 27, 2011 | 6 Comments
What do SolarCity, Sungevity, Session Solar, SunPower, Zep Solar and Quick Mount PV all have in common?  They were all band gladiators in “Solar Battle of the Bands” at Interolsar — and they all added to t... Full Article

Putting the Smart Into Smart Grid

by Eugen Mayer, COO, Power Plus Communications | July 28, 2011 | Post Your Comment
With climate change at the top of the political agenda, governments across Europe are introducing radical compulsory emission reduction targets. In the UK alone, carbon emissions from 1990 levels must be slashed by 34 percent by 2... Full Article
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Navigant Consulting Associate Director Graham Stevens sits down to talk about the future of solar manufacturing in the United States and the factors that will dictate its future. Watch Video
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Eli Katz, Law Partner at Chadbourne & Park, Bill Bush, CFO at Borrego Solar and Hank Lee, VP at East West Bank sit with Meg Cichon to discuss the current project finance market and what to expect in the future.Watch Video
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Schneider Electric's Oscar Araujo explains what his company is doing to reduce BOS costs through innovation, consolidation and standardization. Watch Video

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Video: What Can We Expect for the Solar Project Finance Market?

by Meg Cichon, Associate Editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com | July 29, 2011 | 4 Comments
It seems as though solar enthusiasm is more abundant than ever before. But with close to 30 GW of solar in the pipeline, and three times more tax equity demand than available, competition is fierce. Many are left wondering what wi... Full Article

Two Bills May Lower Hurdles for U.S. Geothermal Industry

by Steve Leone, Associate Editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com | August 1, 2011 | Post Your Comment
In a bitter, divided Washington, good ideas sometimes have to wait in line. And they wait. And they wait. Full Article
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Solar Market Snapshot: Four Videos, Five Experts and One Story To Make Sense Of Them All

by Ucilia Wang, Contributor | August 2, 2011 | Post Your Comment
For Intersolar North America, I set out to conduct video interviews with companies in different segments of the solar industry. The idea is to give a snap shot of the technology development and market demand for manufacturers and ... Full Article

Polysilicon Manufacturing Trends

by Lara Chamness and Dan Tracy, SEMI | August 1, 2011 | Post Your Comment
As the raw material used in the production of Czochralski single crystal silicon wafers, polysilicon is the substrate upon which essentially all semiconductors are produced. Polysilicon is also a key component for silicon-based so... Full Article
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The Path to a Sustainable 'Total Biomass' Advanced Ethanol Industry

by Robert Kozak, Atlantic Biomass Conversions | August 1, 2011 | Post Your Comment
Demand in the U.S. ethanol market has stagnated at approximately 12 billion gallons a year. This ethanol demand is being met by corn ethanol without exceeding the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) for corn ethanol. Full Article

IDB to Provide Loan for Brazil Hydro Project Modernization

by Renewable Energy World Network Editors | August 1, 2011 | Post Your Comment
The Inter-American Development Bank will provide a loan of US$128 million to Brazilian energy utility Furnas Centrais Eletricas S.A. to partly finance the rehabilitation and modernization of two large hydropower complexes in one o... Full Article

How to Improve Wind Energy Reliability with Cable Standards

by Damien M. Polansky, North America Market Manager, Dow Wire & Cable | August 1, 2011 | Post Your Comment
When it comes to advancing technologies for alternative energy, there are many issues to consider. Those that impact the system's efficiency, reliability and life-cycle cost should be at the top of the priority list. For example, ... Full Article

Local Ownership Means Local Love for Wind Power

by John Farrell | July 29, 2011 | 1 Comment
This post originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance's New Rules Project. A new article in the journal Energy Policy supports the notion that local ownership is k... Full Article

Solar Power's Future Remains Bright in Tennessee

by Tom Charlier, Memphis Commercial Appeal | July 29, 2011 | 1 Comment
It's a safe bet that no one in this quaint little railroad town, with its cotton-processing operations and Main Street cannery, ever expected to see a farm quite like the one sprouting a few miles down the road. Full Article

GM's Solar Mission: Volt Charging Stations

by Ucilia Wang, Contributor | July 29, 2011 | 10 Comments
General Motors wants to make eco-friendly cars and make sure some of those cars get eco-friendly source of electricity. That's the idea the company's $7.5 million equity investment in Sunlogics. Full Article

Are the Declines in Solar and Wind Stocks Structural or Cyclical?

by Tom Konrad, Contributor | August 1, 2011 | Post Your Comment
Last week, I asked three green money managers if they thought cleantech stocks, especially solar and wind sectors, were near a bottom. While they did tell me about eight cleantech value stocks, they were not ready to call the bot... Full Article

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Cleantech Investments Plummeted 44% in Q2

by Ucilia Wang, Contributor | August 3, 2011 | Post Your Comment
Solar, electric transportation and energy efficiency attracted the most venture capital in the second quarter in the United States, according to a report released by Ernst & Young on Wednesday. Overall U.S. venture capital investm... Full Article

World Wind Market: Record Installations, But Growth Rates Still Falling

by Tildy Bayar, Contributor | August 4, 2011 | Post Your Comment
The impact of the economic crisis can be seen in BTM's latest report, which again shows record new installations, but a much lower growth rate than in 2009. The rise of Chinese turbine manufacturers and the US financial situation ... Full Article
by James A. "Hoss" Boyd, CEO Tierra Verde Solar Inc. | August 2, 2011 | 29 Comments
My first encounter with NABCEP (North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners) occurred several years ago. At the time, I found solar energy to be an exciting area to move my established electrical contracting company in... Full Article

$50 Million To Aid U.S. Solar Manufacturing

by Renewable Energy World Editors | August 3, 2011 | Post Your Comment
The U.S. Department of Energy is boosting domestic solar PV manufacturing with a $50 million investment over two years. The infusion of money comes as part of the department's SUNPATH program, which was started to help the U.S. ac... Full Article

China Stamps Solar FIT, But What Does It Mean?

by James Montgomery, Photovoltaics World | August 4, 2011 | Post Your Comment
China has established itself as a solar PV manufacturing hub — but a new national solar feed-in tariff (FiT) hopes to make the nation a long-term player as an end-market, too. Full Article

Sun and Wind and Rock 'n' Roll: A Three-Decade Journey

by Clint Wilder, Clean Edge | August 4, 2011 | Post Your Comment
News item: Several months after a crippled nuclear reactor disaster that shocked the world and upended long-term global energy strategies, a group of prominent rock musicians have scheduled a historic benefit concert on August 7, ... Full Article

Small Hydropower Bill Advances

by Renewable Energy World Network Editors | August 3, 2011 | Post Your Comment
The Natural Resources Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the Small-Scale Hydropower Enhancement Act, which was introduced by Congressman Adrian Smith, R-Neb. Full Article

Fostering the Next Generation of Biofuels Innovators

by Mary Rosenthal, Algal Biomass Organization | August 3, 2011 | 2 Comments
In our country's spirited debate over energy, innovation and the economy, perhaps no phrase has been uttered more often than "green jobs." While the precise meaning of "green job" continues to be a topic of debate, I would submit ... Full Article

Solar Inspection: Keeping an Eye on Quality Control

by Ian Latchford, J. Bruce True, Intevac, Inc. | August 3, 2011 | Post Your Comment
Today, silicon cell factories have moved toward the gigawatt (GW) scale. These factories churn out hundreds of thousands of cells each day and competitiveness is based around fractions of cents per watt in manufacturing cost, and ... Full Article

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