Chinese Solar Power Panel Lights Up Investment

During the 2010 Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit in San Diego, a large crowd learned that Chinese companies have cash and interest in the US solar energy market, yet partnerships require patience and low risk.
To explore the opportunities, R. Thomas Hoffmann, Partner with Ballard Spahr, led a panel with three experts on Chinese solar [...]

Sunshine is free, so can photovoltaics be cheap?

Here’s how to make a solar cell from silicon : take one solid block of doped silicon, saw it into thin wafers, layer said semiconductors beneath a panel of transparent glass, connect them to a metal electrode that can channel away the electrons knocked loose by incoming photons and turn it into a photovoltaic device. That process has at least two flaws: such silicon is expensive, contributing more than half to the final price of a solar photovoltaic, and sawing it turns as much as half of that silicon into wasted grit.* [More]

Abound Solar Keeps It In-House

Mark Chen is the director of marketing at Abound Solar, a Colorado-based manufacturer of thin-film cadmium telluride solar modules.  Cleantechies sat him on the hot seat for three questions:
CleanTechies:  Unlike many photovoltaic (PV) companies, you are manufacturing in the United States.  Tell me about the company’s decision to do that.
Mark Chen:  Abound Solar was founded [...]

Shift happens: Will artificial photosynthesis power the world?

One drinking- water bottle could provide enough energy for an entire household in the developing world if Dan Nocera has his way. A chemist from M.I.T. and founder of the company Sun Catalytix, Nocera has developed a cobalt-based catalyst that allows him to store energy the same way plants do: by splitting water. [More]

Chicago Solar Energy

Creating a revolution in the way energy is produced and shared, distributed solar energy is one of the top clean energy topics of the day.

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