Solar Power

Last month, Greenpeace launched a series of coordinated protests at Amazon, Apple and Microsoft locations to draw attention to the companies’ use of GHG intensive fuels in powering their data centers.  The protests were a follow up to their recently released report, “How Clean is Your Cloud,” which criticized the companies fo

View original here:
Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a ‘Killer App’ for Green Power? Part 1

The U.S. Department of Commerce on Thursday announced stiff anti-dumping tariffs of around 31 percent on crystalline silicon solar panels imported from China, leading to a new round of concerns on how the duties will impact the growing American solar industry.

Original post: 
31 Percent Anti-Dumping Tariffs Announced for Chinese Solar Panels

Despite 2011 having been a particularly challenging year for PV cell and module manufacturers, new small-scale module manufacturing facilities continue to be implemented, especially in emerging markets. In some cases, these companies/facilities are either aligned to local government policies or are implemented purely as diversification strategies. Other examples are joint-ventures between private and government entities

See the original post: 
Domestic Module Manufacturing: PV Globalization or Political Vote-Seeking?

In April 2012, SolarBusinessServices met with TrueValue Solar CEO Suren Chandrajit to discuss the phoenix-like rise of his company. The following is a summary of the key topics discussed. TVS has grown very fast to become arguably the largest PV retailer in Australia

More here: 
What Does it Take to be Australia’s Largest PV Retailer?

New capacity also increasingly comes as centralised projects rather than distributed PV — another major structural change for U.S. utilities.

Excerpt from: 
US Solar Heads East