Intelligence Brief 6 April – 27 April Companies and organisations mentioned in this round-up include: SolFocus Ingenero Alice Springs Airport (Australia) ATEL New Enterprise Associates Apex Ventures OPEL Tecneira HP Xtreme Energetics Hewlett-Packard Development Company Amonix Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Adams Street Partners Angeleno Group PCG Clean Energy & Technology Fund Vedanta Capital New Silk Route The Westly Group and Mission Point Capital
Tue, 2010-04-27 10:50Companies and organisations mentioned in this round-up include: Oregon State University Yeungman University of Korea The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) United States National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) WÃ
Tue, 2010-05-04 11:22We continue our two part series on thin film opportunities arising out of Ontario Canada´s Solar Sunbelt; the project constraints; and how academia could bring about industry change.
Tue, 2010-05-04 11:29Research and analyst group, Gartner, reported in its Cool Vendors in Solar Energy, 2010 report, that innovation will be the carrot luring future venture funding in the coming months.
Tue, 2010-05-04 12:10With €6bn up for grabs for CCS and renewable energy projects across Europe through the New Entrants Reserve of the Emissions Trading Scheme most in the market would be overjoyed over the opportunity. But as Greg Arrowsmith of EUREC explains the funding process won't be simple the funding awarded will be drip fed for only the most viable of projects and the competition amongst candidates will be steep.
Fri, 2010-05-07 11:13Concentrix Solar's CEO Hansjörg Lerchenmüller speaks to CPV Today on target markets market drivers to building scale lessons learned through a company integration process and what his team hopes to achieve in the years ahead.
Fri, 2010-05-07 11:33Companies and organizations mentioned in this news round-up include: Schneider Electric Vietnam Company US Department of Energy and Sunseeker Energy
Tue, 2010-05-11 10:46Companies and organizations mentioned in this round-up include: NREL 3M Solar World AG First Solar APCO Worldwide Inc GE American Chamber of Commerce in China Pew Charitable Trusts Vestas Eurasia Group World Trade Organization Ascent Solar Technologies
Tue, 2010-05-18 11:51Growth projections of the Taiwanese PV market are impressive. Large solar farm contracts are being won. Investment is growing. What is giving this burgeoning solar market its momentum and is it a matter of too much too soon? Paul French reports.
Tue, 2010-05-18 12:16Until 2007 Sharp held the number one spot for PV production and sales.
Tue, 2010-05-18 13:10Taiwan is ramping up production of solar cells to both capture market share across the world and also to keep pace with mainland China. Paul French speaks to local industry experts to find out the future potential of Taiwan's solar cell production capacity.
Mon, 2010-05-24 12:15Chris Anderson Borrego Solar's Chief Technology Officer chats with CPV Today on mitigating risk when advising clients on taking on new solar technologies; the initiation of a design standard resources group; and why VCs will be going to the group to validate technologies and investment prospects.
Mon, 2010-05-24 12:25Companies and organisations included in this news round-up include: BrightSource Alstom California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) VantagePoint Venture Partners Morgan Stanley Draper Fisher Jurvetson River Mountains Water Treatment Facility Amonix NREL 3M Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and IQE.
Mon, 2010-05-24 22:06Energy consultancy papers to compare technological advances and market demands of PV CPV and CSP
Tue, 2010-05-25 12:10India needs a quick yet long-lasting solution to its electricity needs. Is solar a viable proposition namely thin film for this diverse in many places--poor yet dynamic nation? Elizabeth Block reports.
Tue, 2010-06-15 09:47Companies and organizations included in this news round-up include: NASA IKAROS Tanegashima Space Center BudaSolar Solar Thin Films Inc. Millennium Technology Prize NREL MiaSole Apollo Solar Energy ENN Solar Energy Co Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP).
Tue, 2010-06-15 10:54Companies and organisations included in this round-up include: Photovoltaic Industry Association SunPower Corp. Schneider Electric Universal Solar and OPEL Solar
Tue, 2010-06-22 11:52The future of India's CPV market seems to be currently in the hands of foreign solar panel manufacturers. Chinese panel makers such as Trina Solar and its CEO Jifan Gao are breaking ground in India. We look at the challenges that lie ahead for India's solar market and speak to the analysts to find out what their take is on this burgeoning power house.
Tue, 2010-06-22 12:48According to a new report by CPV Today more than 70 MW of new project announcements scheduled for 2010 signal Concentrated Photovoltaics' return to form.
Tue, 2010-06-22 13:34China has had a change of heart over solar power. Paul French reports on one of the most impressive new thin film projects set for Inner Mongolia not just for its size but for the impact it will have on China´s energy mix and the companies within the supply chain at home and abroad.
Tue, 2010-06-29 11:29Companies and organisations mentioned in this news round-up include: Trina Solar Ingenero University of Queensland Energy Farm Inc. Xiris Automation Stion TSMC Desertec Hyundai Heavy Industries KAM and Samsung Electronics
Tue, 2010-06-29 11:49New trends in the CPV market suggest companies are finding alternative sometimes imaginative ways to cut costs. Elisabeth Jeffries reports on the latest CPV Today cost analysis findings and speaks to energy executives to get their thoughts on how costs could be minimised without compromising output. But will the CPV companies agree with their ideas? New
Mon, 2010-07-05 20:35Intelligence Brief 22 June - 6 July Companies and organisations included in this news round-up include: Abengoa Solar Spire Semiconductor LLC Missile Defence Agency (MDA) QuantaSol Emcore Corporation TCIC Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and Skyline Solar.
Mon, 2010-07-05 22:40