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March 18, 2014

Solar Demand in 2013 rockets to 37000000000 Watts as Asia becomes Prime Driver

Solar Demand driven by Asia Solar energy demand in 2013 rocketed to 37 GW up almost 25% from 2012, as China became the largest demand driver […]
March 14, 2014

Solar Wafers and Polysilicon see increasing Demand from downstream Solar Cell and Panel Producers

Increasing Demand for Solar Wafer & Polysilicon The demand for solar wafers is starting to outstrip supply in certain regions as solar panel demand has increased […]
March 12, 2014

Chaori Solar goes bust as it defaults on domestic Bond Coupon payments, company unlikely to recover

Chaori Solar Energy defaults its Bond Payments Shanghai Chaori Solar Energy has officially defaulted on its domestic bond payments after the company could not come up […]
March 11, 2014

India’s Solar Cell Makers continue to languish in Restructuring Limbo

Indian Solar Industry resort to Restructuring India’s solar cell and panel makers continue to restructure their debt, as their plants are not able to compete with […]
March 10, 2014

Prepaid Solar gains traction amongst Bottom of the pyramid customers in the Third World

Prepaid Solar One of the biggest problems in the growth of solar energy is the capital cost which accounts for almost 90% of the total lifetime […]
March 7, 2014

Polysilicon makes a comeback as Solar Demand starts to stretch supply

Polysilicon makes a comeback After an extremely bad couple of years which saw many of the older Polysilicon plants closing and prices crashing by almost 80%, […]
March 6, 2014

Solar Powered Toys For Kids

Solar Powered Toys Solar Power has tremendously become popular these days. More and more people are switching towards solar energy in their day to day life. […]
March 5, 2014

Solar Energy Farms Investment generates Alpha for the Hedge Fund Community

Solar energy is starting to see an increase in investments from hedge funds and private equity firms as the industry grows in size. More than $250 […]
March 4, 2014

LDK and Suntech both look to Chapter 15 Bankruptcy protection from the US Courts

Even as the solar industry and companies are enjoying sunny times due to the large demand growth in 2014, the debt laden leaders of yesteryears are […]
March 3, 2014

India’s Giant State Owned Oil and Gas Companies look to make big investments in large Solar Farms

Indian Oil and Gas companies to invest in Solar India’s large state owned oil and gas companies are looking to invest a huge amount of money […]
February 28, 2014

Solar Powered Ceiling Fans

Solar powered Ceiling Fans Solar Power is increasingly finding applications today. Another breakthrough in the solar industry is solar powered ceiling fan. A must have for […]
February 27, 2014

Portable Solar Powered Houses

Solar Powered Portable House A new innovation in the solar industry – Solar Powered Portable houses. Solar energy is increasingly finding applications both in residential and […]
February 26, 2014

TSL buys a Controlling Stake in Hubei Hongyuan

TSL buys 51% in HYPV Trina Solar (TSL) buys a controlling stake of 51% in the Chinese Solar company Hubei Hongyuan Photovoltaic Technology Co. Ltd. The […]
February 25, 2014

Polysilicon supply and demand to remain roughly in balance in 2014

No signs of increase in Poly prices Solar panel prices have increased sharply over the last one year from the catastrophically low levels reached during 2012. […]
February 24, 2014

USA going bananas with its Solar Trade Policies – Taiwan in the crosshairs

USA cannot have best of both the worlds USA is going bananas with its solar trade policy and seems to have little clue on what to […]
February 22, 2014

Germany slows down Solar Energy Additions considerably

Germany has managed to substantially slow down the additions of solar energy systems to its grid. The country installed only 3.3 GW of new solar energy […]
February 21, 2014

After Trina and Jinko, Canadian Solar decides to Expand Capacity

Canadian Solar to expand Solar Capacity Top Tier 1 Chinese solar producers are starting to expand capacity, as solar demand has begun growing faster than the […]
February 20, 2014

Solar utility to do an IPO in India

Moser Baer to do an IPO Moser Baer Projects now known as Hindustan Cleanenergy plans to do an IPO in the stock markets this year. The […]
February 19, 2014

Solar Equipment to rise by more than 5 fold in the next 3 years

Solar equipment makers have been lying comatose in the last couple of years, as massive industry oversupply led to solar panel makers completely stopping their capex […]
February 18, 2014

Consolidation starts to gather pace in the US Solar Residential Market as big companies look for increased reach

US Solar market sees big time Consolidation Big US installers such as SunRun and Solarcity (SCTY) are rapidly expanding their geographical footprint in the USA by […]
February 17, 2014

Another Major Blow for Thin Film Solar Technology

Tokyo Electron exits Thin Film Solar business Solar thin film technology suffered another big blow when Tokyo Electron decided to exit its a-Si thin film solar […]
February 15, 2014

People's Power Station installed in 1 million Homes in Australia

People’s Power Station in Australia Australia has been a truly remarkable success story for solar energy over the last 5 years. The country has seen more than […]
February 14, 2014

Wa'ad Al Shammal set to be Middle East's biggest Solar Manufacturing Hub

SunEdison partners with Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia plans to invest heavily into building one of the world’s largest silicon technology based integrated solar factory. The country […]
February 13, 2014

Solar Power reaches the common man's House – An exclusive chat with a user

Common Man takes the responsibility to build a clean and greener India. Solar Energy as we always advocate here at Greenworldinvestor is highly environment friendly, energy […]
February 7, 2014

Solar companies start to expand conservatively as demand increases in the high double digits

Solar companies are slowly starting to expand capacity as global demand is expected to hit as high as 50 GW in 2014. Note global solar capacity […]
February 6, 2014

Madhya Pradesh in India shows others how Green Energy should be promoted

Renewable Energy in India is going through a mini crisis, with the government not meeting even 50% of its 2013-14 target. The abrupt changes in renewable […]
February 5, 2014

Renesola and GCL could be big Solar Winners in 2014

Upstream solar stocks such as GCl, Renesola, Wacker, REC etc. have lagged behind the spectacular multi-bagger performance of downstream solar stocks such as Jinko Solar, Canadian […]
February 4, 2014

Upstream Solar price start showing an Increase as Demand keeps Increasing

We at Greenworldinvestor, have kept saying that the increase in upstream solar material prices is inevitable as capacity has stopped increasing, while demand keeps growing. Solar […]
February 3, 2014

German Solar Demand to fall more as country proposes to further the unchecked growth

Germany has undoubtedly been the biggest solar success story in the world, thanks to its far sighted EEG law. However China and Japan have far eclipsed […]
January 30, 2014

Power transmission constraints the biggest short term challenge to Solar Growth

The Global Solar Scenario Solar power is seeing a boom in demand, after a vicious two year downturn in which massive overcapacity in China drove down […]