ABB plans to buy power inverter leader Power-One for around a billion dollars. The move shows the expected strong growth in solar panel installations, despite the hard times for the solar… Read more »
Using chip and hard disc drive manufacturing processes, startup Gridtential is rethinking the simple lead acid battery to be able to store more energy and be lower cost. The company just… 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 »
The jockeying is beginning to call the bottom of the solar market. After an awful 2011, Gordon Johnson, an analyst at Axiom Capital who foresaw in 2010 some of the troubles… Read more »
Here is another sign that a new class of solar inverters is cementing its hold in the market: SolarBridge Technologies announced Monday that it has raised $19 million to expand the… Read more »
Solar inverter maker Enphase Energy is taking a plunge by filing to go public. In a government filing Wednesday, the California company said it plans to raise up to $100 million. 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 »
American solar companies say China doesn’t play fair, and that makes it difficult to compete at home and abroad. Here is our 4-step attack plan for what companies can do to… Read more »
Inverter maker Power-One has bought venture-backed Fat Spaniel Technologies, adding to a list of renewable energy acquisitions this year. The deal is necessary for Fat Spaniel which has endured a tough… Read more »