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02/06/2012 11:03 AM |
| NLP Solar Sales Training Live Webinar February 8th & 9th |
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02/06/2012 10:08 AM |
| Ten Clean Energy Stocks for 2012: 10 Percent More than Other Top-10 lists |
 Maybe it was because Seeking Alpha did not carry my annual list of 10 Clean Energy Stocks for 2012 this year, but no one seems to have noticed that there were actually 11 stocks in the list. Call it the Spinal Tap of top-ten lists.
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02/06/2012 09:00 AM |
| Solar Fred's 7 Keys to Why People Share Marketing Materials on the Web |
What triggers you to press one of those share buttons above, or email this post — or any website link — to a colleague or friend? Think about it. Because the keys to knowing why people share things are the keys to so-called "viral" solar marketing.
Before we get to why we share, let's talk about how we used to share and how we share
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02/06/2012 08:55 AM |
| Asia Report: India Sees 52 Percent Rise in Investments |
 The year 2011 may be remembered in clean energy circles as the moment when India became a major player across several industries.
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02/03/2012 11:36 AM |
| Suntech, DuPont to Collab on Solar Backsheets, Supply Chain |
 It's easy to think about modules as singular units of power output, but the reality is that they are a collection of diverse components, each with influence over the end system's total cost and performance. For DuPont, its focus is of course on the materials side, from metallization pastes used to form contacts on the solar cell, to backsheet materials that protect the panels themselves.
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02/03/2012 09:30 AM |
| DOE's Untold Impact on Solar |
 The Obama Administration's $60 billion Loan Guarantee Program (LGP) for renewable energy is considered a failure because of Solyndra, Beacon Power, and potential 2012 bankruptcies. What is not well known is that 75 percent of the program's deployed funds went to relatively low risk power plants that will catapult the U.S. to a leadership role in the utility-scale solar sector. This is hardly the hallmark of a "failed program." The program is akin to Shakespeare's King Henry V, who said as a delinquent Prince: "I'll so offend as to make offense a skill, redeeming time when men think least I will."
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02/02/2012 03:23 PM |
| Miasolé Claims 17 Percent Efficient CIGS Device, 14 Percent In Production |
 Miasolé says it has created a 17.3 percent "champion" thin-film copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS) solar photovoltaic device, results obtained in its own labs and not (yet) independently verified.
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02/02/2012 10:02 AM |
| Experts Predict End of Month for Ontario FIT Review Update |
 By late February the renewable energy industry should have direction from the Ontario government on some of the major changes ahead for the province’s landmark feed-in tariff program. “I am hoping we will have an announcement then with the megawatt (MW) targets and pricing, then new rules and contracts in March, and application processi
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02/02/2012 10:00 AM |
| If Solar is Contagious, Can Utilities Help Spread the Bug? |
 You may have heard it before, but it is worth mentioning again: In residential communities, solar is contagious. But a recent study, "Peer Effects in the Diffusion of Solar Photovoltaic Panels," conducted by Bryan Bollinger of the NYU Stern School of Business and Kenneth Gillingham of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, published in December sheds some new light on the phenomenon.
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02/02/2012 09:37 AM |
| Executive Roundtable: The Future of Utility-Scale Renewables |
 Renewable energy in the United States is at a crossroads. With several federal tax grants set to expire by the end of 2012, utilities are trying to decide if the falling prices of solar and wind technology makes renewable energy competitive enough to invest in despite vanishing federal aid.
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02/01/2012 03:55 PM |
| Europe's 2011-2012 PV Installs: Two Tales of Growth |
 Two reports out in the past week examine Europe's solar PV market in 2011, indicating slowing growth in the flagship countries and promise in some smaller regions for 2012 and beyond. Note that the data that follows is preliminary; final 2011 numbers won't be known until later in the first quarter, including some likely revisions thanks to a stronger-than-expected fourth quarter in several key regions (more on that below).
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02/01/2012 02:11 PM |
| Solar Trade Dispute: Behind the Jobs Numbers |
 A recent report has generated lots of buzz by finding that as many as 50,000 jobs could be lost over the next three years if a 100 percent tariff is placed on Chinese solar panels. Yet from where I'm sitting, I see a far different number from the same report: The industry could add 15,000 jobs by 2014.
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02/01/2012 12:05 PM |
| Latin America Report: Energy Summit Headed to Rio |
 Twenty years ago, international leaders descended on Brazil to lay the groundwork for what would eventually become the Kyoto Protocol. This summer, a 20-member United Nations panel will once again head to Rio de Janeiro with an even more ambitious agenda.
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02/01/2012 11:51 AM |
| China Set to Vigorously Develop Green Economy |
 Due to growing urbanization and resulting environmental threats, China has invested nearly US$50 billion annually into its renewable energy sector since 2009. China's five-year investment in environmental protection is on track to reach 3.1 trillion yuan (US$454 billion). By 2015, its environmental protection industry is expected to top 2 trillion yuan (US$317 billion).
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02/01/2012 09:00 AM |
| Global Concentrated Photovoltaic Market Growth and Investments |
 Concentrated photovoltaics (CPV) is an upcoming renewable market that promises to provide cost-effective power generation at high levels of efficiency. The performance of a CPV system is dependant on the direct normal irradiance (DNI). Because of this major performance parameter, the number of regions ideal for CPV system installations is limited. According to Prof. Humayun Mughal, the potential market destinations based on DNI for the CPV technology are Southwest US, Mexico, Chile, Southern Peru, Southwest Bolivia, Northwest Argentina, and Mediterranean countries, Australia, North Africa, Middle East, Western India and Western China.
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01/31/2012 12:07 PM |
| Evaluating Institutional On-site Clean Energy |
 Earlier this month, I attended EUCI’s Utilizing Clean Power Development Conference in Philadelphia. The conference attracted a variety of large institutions (hospitals, municipalities, universities, etc.), developers, and financers to discuss the opportunity and challenges surrounding deployment of on-site renewable energy. Instit
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01/31/2012 09:00 AM |
| Hourly Electricity Pricing Boosts Value of Distributed Solar by 33 Percent |
What if electricity cost more when the sun was shining?
Many utilities are using new electronic "smart meters" to adjust the price of electricity as often as every hour, to reflect supply and demand. And charging more when electricity is in short supply can be good news, increasing the value of solar by 33 percent or more.
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01/30/2012 01:13 PM |
| Kyocera to Launch Solar With Li-Ion Battery Storage for Homes in Japan |
 A big energy-related disaster doesn't just leave horrible marks on people's lives; it also can propel better and quicker policy and technology adoption. Kyocera on Monday said it plans to start selling a system that pairs solar panels with lithium-ion batteries for the residential market in Japan starting this summer.
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01/30/2012 09:30 AM |
| Sorting Out Solar PV Downstream M&A |
 The volatile swings seen in the upstream part of the solar PV supply chain, from silicon to cell/module pricing, have been well documented. End-market demand and associated policies supporting it is also a roller coaster, with many key regions currently embroiled in what to do for 2012 and beyond.
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01/30/2012 08:43 AM |
| Asia Report: DOC Extends Solar Trade Case Deadline to March 2 |
 Solar players on both sides of the Pacific have been warily anticipating the Feb. 13 deadline when the Department of Commerce was set to announce whether it would impose duties on solar cells and modules coming in from China.
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