This Solar Fred marketing post is inspired by a recent Seth Godin blog post. I really think Godin captures the spirit of how small but consistent efforts can make a difference — without having a million dollar ad budget.
Below is my adaptation of Godin’s one-day-effort bullet points for solar marketing...
Large-scale deployment of renewable energies has so far been concentrated in Europe and in the U.S., but that is changing. Take wind energy, solar PV and CSP (Concentrated Solar Power), for instance: 44 percent, 35 percent and 23 percent, respectively, of new capacity for the next five years will be...
Charities’ early efforts to distribute clean energy technologies in Africa met with little success. Their use of donor funding to heavily subsidise products such as solar lighting kits would generally fulfil a programme’s short-term targets, but in the long run the expertise and equipment...
Romania will scale back renewable power subsidies to limit electricity-price increases for consumers, according to the minister-delegate for energy.
The eastern European country plans to make changes to its incentive program in July or at the beginning of next year, Constantin Nita said today in an...
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which coordinates California’s solar incentives programs through the California Solar Initiative, said earlier this week that residential solar incentives in an increasing number of utility service areas are reaching fulfillment. Many solar industry...
Our industry should rally behind anyone who knows how to spell “photovoltaic.” Especially at the DOE, which is a large, complex, slow-moving, virtually radioactive bureaucracy. Not only can Dr. Moniz spell photovoltaic, he’s demonstrated the engineering, policy and management skills...
Alta Devices, which engineers solar cells with more exotic materials, has achieved a new efficiency record of 30.8 percent, the Silicon Valley startup said Monday.
The new efficiency bests the company’s own former record and shows off the company’s new technology that stacks two layers...
Smart Modules will power California solar farms
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Upsolar, a leading international provider of solar PV modules, today announced the company has been selected by Pristine Sun to supply a minimum of 10 MW of its Smart Modules for solar farms in California....
Published on Mar 12 2013
// Energy
Compared to prior generations, CodeXyme® 4 and CodeXyme® 4X significantly reduce the cost of cellulosic sugar production for biofuels and bio-based chemicals
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Codexis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDXS), a developer of engineered enzymes for pharmaceutical, biofuel...
Clean Edge’s Annual Trends Report Finds Increased Deployment, But Global Market Value Increases Only Slightly, Up 1 Percent, to $249 Billion
PORTLAND, Ore. & OAKLAND, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Although 2012 proved to be an unsettling and difficult year for clean energy, the fundamental...
