Editors’ Blog

Editors' Blog, Features
October 30, 2012
By Felicity Carus
In the Eddie Murphy film Coming to America, the protagonist prince quickly realises that the USA is not a place where guests come to sit on their hands when he lands himself a job at a McDonald's lookalike fast food joint on his quest to find a wife.
Editors' Blog, Features
October 16, 2012
By Felicity Carus
Business transactions are very often about relationships — the solar industry is no exception. But have plunging prices of PV thrust upon the nascent global market by the Chinese really spoilt the industry with too much choice? Has the young bachelor industry been too busy speed dating with $0.65/Wp panels at the expense of a stable and more meaningful relationship between investor, developer and consumer expectations of a quality product that is going to stand the test of time?
Editors' Blog, Features
October 2, 2012
By Felicity Carus
Soon it will be as easy to go solar in California as it is to buy a lunch-time burrito, according to some in the industry.
Editors' Blog, Features
September 28, 2012
By Mark Osborne
The media frenzy over the precarious financial situation of one of Japan’s iconic corporate brands and a major PV module producer, Sharp Corporation has raged all week as an expected financial bailout led by Mizuho Financial Group and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group loomed. On Thursday, September 27, Sharp issued a short statement confirming it had secured both immediate and near-term funding amounting to around US$4.6 billion.
Editors' Blog, Features
September 4, 2012
By Felicity Carus
Mitt Romney's joke last week mocking Barack Obama's acceptance of global warming has been ridiculed by US news networks, with perhaps the exception of Fox.
Editors' Blog, Features
August 21, 2012
By Felicity Carus
Feed-in-tariffs are a controversial subject in the US where the energy industry likes to pretend that free market economics applies to this sector. You might expect clean energy antagonists to baulk: "Let the government set the price for electricity — are you crazy? Let the market decide."
Editors' Blog, Features
July 25, 2012
By Nilima Choudhury
As US President Barack Obama embarked on what could be his final year in office, he pledged in his State of the Union address to increase energy standards. Amid cries from political activists accusing him of having the least active climate change legislation in recent years, on Tuesday, a partnership between the Department of Interior and the Department of Energy intends to put all the vehement concerns to rest.
Editors' Blog, Features
July 17, 2012
By Felicity Carus
Amid last week's crowded halls at Intersolar in San Francisco, a handful of companies were noticeable by their absence. A track devoted to concentrating solar technologies such as CPV and CSP featured Areva, which carved itself a niche in steam augmentation for existing fossil plants, but failed to attract BrightSource and SolarReserve.
Editors' Blog, Features
July 12, 2012
By Felicity Carus
Intersolar attendees weren't sure whether they had been invited to a wake or a wedding yesterday as they heard the global outlook for the solar industry.
Editors' Blog, Features
June 26, 2012
By Felicity Carus
California has seen a tale of two IPOs over the past couple of months: one was aborted at the last moment; another was the second largest in US history.

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