This year’s largest solar event in North America dawned over a landscape clouded by the Solyndra failure, weak earnings for many solar players and mounting tensions about price drops for polysilicon and finished panels. Yet the mood at the conference was upbeat, and the symbolic change of venue to Dallas, Texas, highlighted that the North American market has grown beyond California and is gaining momentum from coast to coast.
After spending three...
By Kimberly Kupiecki
10/11/11
Solyndra, once one of the most powerful and promising brands in the solar energy industry, is now a household name for all the wrong reasons, and a headache for clean tech innovators across the U.S. A story that began as the financial troubles of one solar company has become a platform for a much larger narrative about the Obama administration, its promises to the American people and its energy...
Three recent news items have me thinking about the connection between waste, oil prices and materials.
Oil prices just surpassed the psychological barrier of $100 per barrel on January 31st for the first time since 2008. Imad al-Atiqi, a member of the OPEC member’s highest oil policy body in a Reuters interview, Feb. 7 said,
“I expect oil prices to reach $110 during the first half of 2011, however, it could go above...
Message from ACORE Policy Forum: It’s time for a new dialogue around clean energy A central question from Mike Eckhart, president of ACORE, at this week’s National Policy forum, held in Washington DC was “Will clean energy win, if so, how and when?” Despite, or possibly because of, a reorder of power in the House and Senate, many said that...
