The obituaries for thin film solar startup HelioVolt were written about a year ago, when the thirteen-year-old company — after over $200 million in funding and no major sales deals –… Read more »
In today’s New York Times is a piece detailing the deal in which Hanergy bought thin film solar maker MiaSole, a Silicon Valley solar company that gobbled up $550 million in… Read more »
I’ve written before about the cleantech asset fire sale and how I expect that we’re at the beginning of the trend of aggressive Asian conglomerates picking up European and American R&D… Read more »
The global solar market added 27.7 gigawatts (GW) of photovoltaic systems in 2011, a 70 percent increase over 2010, according to the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA). Europe continues to be… Read more »
Thin-film solar panels — solar PV panels that use alternatives to silicon to convert sunlight to electricity — have one big champion. That’s First Solar, the world-leading producer of cadmium-telluride panels… Read more »
What’s Intel doing in a solar panel factory? Eight Intel employees are helping thin-film solar startup Miasole fine-tune its two Silicon Valley factories, as the well-funded CIGS maker struggles to reach… Read more »
Is the greentech industry headed for a breakout year, or is it retrenching for hard times to come? The first three months of 2011 provided evidence that could support both assertions… Read more »
Venture capital firms poured $2.5 billion into green technology in the first quarter of 2011, according to figures from Cleantech Group reported in a news story over the weekend. That’s the… Read more »
Green IT Jeff St. John’s thoughts, analyses and predictions are compiled here in a single report. As with any analysis of the market, we couldn’t possibly include every company, announcement and… Read more »
In a year that kept industry watchers on edge until the very end, greentech ended up marking its best year ever. But the good news came unevenly across sectors and classes… Read more »