Solar Industry
June 20, 2013
Siemens to close its last solar shop – Solel Energy Siemens is now getting out of the solar business, with its decision to shut down Solel […]
June 20, 2013
Cheap money and over-investment has led to a catastrophic overcapacity in the solar panel industry leading to solar panel prices falling by more than 80% in […]
June 19, 2013
Solar News 1) TSMC and Solar Frontier release high efficiency CIGs solar thin film modules with efficiency around 15% 2) GTM sees module costs at just 36c/watt by […]
June 18, 2013
I recently wrote about the rising solar panel defects noticed in the solar industry. There have been recent incidents that talk about the faulty solar modules and […]
June 17, 2013
Tamil Nadu has been at the forefront of green energy generation in India, with almost half of the country’s wind energy capacity. The state has also […]
June 17, 2013
LDK faces working capital crisis LDK Solar (LDK) which used to be the world’s biggest supplier of solar wafers and was building the biggest polysilicon plant is now contracting […]
June 15, 2013
Germany meets 60% of its electricity demand from solar Germany has been the real reason that the solar industry has come so far so fast. The […]
June 13, 2013
1) Renewable Energy limits in Bulgaria. The maximum working capacity of all PV and wind plants on the territory to be limited by 40%. 2) Kuwait to invest […]
June 13, 2013
Top Solar Products Solar Energy is the fastest and the most effective form of renewable energy used today. Energy from the sun is used and applied […]
June 13, 2013
USA is the biggest electricity market in the world with more than 1000 GW of capacity and accounts for almost 20% of the world’s electricity capacity. […]
June 11, 2013
Solar News 1) LDK Solar continues to implode with a gargantuan $187 million quarter loss with net margin of -180% 2) Canadian Solar wins a huge 130 MW […]
June 11, 2013
Chinese put pressure on Europe The European Chinese solar trade saga took an important turn when the EU imposed a 11% duty on imports of Chinese […]
June 8, 2013
1) 2013 Results Out for Major Companies: i) Jinko Solar ii) Canadian Solar iii) Daqo New Energy 2) LDK Solar Prepares its Earnings Report 3) Japanese […]
June 7, 2013
Following my morning story of 11.8% anti dumping duty imposition on China by the EU, it is feared that there will be massive job losses in […]
June 7, 2013
The Eu-China Trade War We have been writing continuously about the global solar trade wars, covering all the countries involved. Europe started the biggest anti dumping case against China. […]
June 6, 2013
CDB lents $44 million to CSIQ Canadian Solar sought a $44 million loan from the China Development Bank to finance its project in China. It is […]
June 6, 2013
1) $100 Million Solar Supply Agreement signed between Yingli Green Energy (YGE) and DuPont to build a solar power plant in China. YGE closed at $2.79 on June 5th, down […]
June 6, 2013
Neo Solar and Del Solar Merger Consolidation in the global solar industry continues at an accelerated pace with companies exiting the solar business, bankruptcies being announced, takeovers […]
June 5, 2013
MEMC to SunEdison MEMC – the world’s leader in silicon wafer manufacturing has now changed the company name to SunEdison. The shareholders approved of this change at the company’s […]
June 5, 2013
German Solar Market and the rising Solar theft Germany is the world’s top PV installer, with a solar PV capacity of more than 32.3 GW as of […]
June 4, 2013
Japan is a country where solar energy is flourishing because of its Government support through generous feed in subsidy. Till 2007 Japan was the leader in Solar […]
June 3, 2013
Solar News 1) Japan to be the biggest solar market in 2013 with a whopping $20 billion turnover 2) New Jersey’s biggest utility gets the go ahead to […]
May 31, 2013
China forces Foreign companies to set factories in China China has done a fabulous job in forcing foreign companies to play by its rule in the […]
May 30, 2013
Solar News 1) Japan sees a repeat of the German and Italian solar booms. Can it last? 2) Euro fears drive up prices of Taiwanese solar cells 3) ABB […]
May 30, 2013
Capital Investment in Solar Industry projected at $2.3 billion in 2013 The solar industry has been sick in the last couple of years as massive over-investment […]
May 29, 2013
Is the quality of Solar Modules compromised today Just when the entire world is getting “solarized“, has crept in another issue regarding the quality standards of […]
May 29, 2013
47% Duty to be imposed by EC Europe and China are playing a high stake poker game with stake value of $27 billion as the European […]
May 28, 2013
The Indian solar manufacturing industry is running on fumes with 10% capacity utilization. Even the bigger capacity players like Tata Power, Indosolar and Moser Baer are […]
May 27, 2013
Global Solar Industry Scenario The global Solar industry has been in a pickle in the last couple of years with a huge number of bankruptcies amid […]