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Pie in the Sky - Taster of the Renewable Energy Focus U.S. May/June issue

There is nothing like cold, homemade pie for a summer picnic, and although yours truly could not help dreaming about this whilst putting the magazine together, it is an altogether different pie on the menu for the solar industry. Over the years, the focus for renewable energy has gone from proving ...

Posted 06 June 2011 by Kari Williamson

tags: renewable energy , solar pv , wind , google

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All-Energy – Laughing about NIMBYism and nearly talking to a weather celebrity

In my wanderings around the show floors, I met with some interesting people. One was a chat with S&C’s Andrew Jones on what S&C does to help balance the grid by applying various storage solutions and using voltage control. It was an inspiring chat, and after the close of the official i ...

Posted 19 May 2011 by Kari Williamson

tags: All-Energy , wind , renewable energy

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All (about renewable) Energy – Faulty lifts and a renewable salmon(d)

This year’s All-Energy in Aberdeen, Scotland, kicked off with a 25% increase in exhibitors with 580+ from over 20 countries, and over 7000 pre-registered attendants. The opening session saw an impressive panel chaired by Andrew Jamieson, Chairman of RenewbleUK and Regulation and Markets Direc ...

Posted 18 May 2011 by Kari Williamson

tags: All-Energy , renewable energy , offshore wind

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Which countries are winning the race to invest in renewables?

NB: this is my editorial from the March/April issue of Renewable Energy Focus magazine, which is now out. If you don't subscribe yet, it's free, so feel free to subscribe here. Global clean energy finance and investment grew significantly in 2010 to US$243 billion, a 30% increase from 2009, accord ...

Posted 27 April 2011 by David Hopwood

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Spring has arrived and the U.S. March/April issue is close by!

To give you a little taster of the March/April issue of Renewable Energy Focus U.S., I'm posting my editorial to wet your appetites. If you have not already done so, sign up for your free copy here! Here in the office, spring has finally arrived – the sun is shining, the pollen is spread ...

Posted 31 March 2011 by Kari Williamson

tags: renewable , energy

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The last winter month – now out chasing spring

We have just put the last winter month behind us, and here at Renewable Energy Focus, we are rolling up our sleeves to meet the spring. At the moment, we are busy booking tickets for shows starting with EWEA 2011 next week in Brussels. It is a busy calendar looking ahead, and we look forward to see ...

Posted 07 March 2011 by Kari Williamson

tags: renewable , solar , wind , news

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January 2011 – A New Year with new hopes?

This January has been pretty much like any other January – the reports about markets, revenues, and forecasts for what’s to come has been flooding our inboxes here at Renewable Energy Focus. But in between the ‘business as usual’, some news stories have stood out and stuck in ...

Posted 31 January 2011 by Kari Williamson

tags: renewable , feed-in tariff , wind , obama

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Can global knowledge transfer speed grid parity?

What happens when Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, drops in to Australia’s first carbon-neutral office building to meet Prime Minister Julia Gillard? While they might have exchanged a few private words about the exhilaration of smashing glass ceilings, the topic of the day was not women ...

Posted 22 November 2010 by Elizabeth Block

tags: solar , pv , csp , cost , innovation

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High-efficiency crystalline silicon designs – high efficiency meets “ease” in 2011 By Guest Blogger, Shalom Goffri, Managing Consultant, Energy, Navigant

During fast and heated growth in 2010, the solar market has seen its share of technology shake-ups as well. In July, Applied Materials made headlines by discontinuing new sales of it SunFab thin-film silicon line after production had fallen woefully behind cost and efficiency expectations of the mar ...

Posted 15 November 2010 by Paula Mints

tags: Crystalline , c-Si , Solar , efficiency , Applied , Innovalight , Solar , PV , Photovoltaic , Technology , EWT , 2011

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CSP – is it time? Coverage of CSP Today's CSP Project Development USA Conference

Amid optimistic announcements for gigawatts of CSP installations over the next few years, stage whispers of the barriers this industry continues to face continue. At CSP Today’s Project Development conference held in Denver on October 25 and 26, Stephen Mullennix, Partner at U.S. Renewables Gr ...

Posted 01 November 2010 by Paula Mints

tags: csp , solar , pv , permitting

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What the movie Network and the U.S. Tea Party movement can teach the solar industry

It is frightening how much of what was depicted as satire in Paddy Chayefsky’s 1976 movie Network is now a part of our reality. For one thing the evening news now seems like a group of Facebook friends chatting about something breaking, whether or not it is news, and for another, television i ...

Posted 10 October 2010 by Paula Mints

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Husum WindEnergy day 1 - Blades, lubrication, AMSC and Jimi Hendrix

My first day of Husum WindEnergy started by missing a Vestas press conference due to a late bus from the airport, but never mind. I’m going to pester their PR lady later today to see if I can get a briefing nonetheless. The day could only get better from such a starting point, and indeed it d ...

Posted 22 September 2010 by Kari Williamson

tags: wind , energy , husum windenergy , turbines

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What is more economic - biomass power or biofuels?

Author: Guest Blogger Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Ph. D. | Associate Director| Energy | Navigant Consulting, Inc. A short and very unsatisfactory answer to this question is, “Well it depends!” In reality, there actually are some critical details that must be understood before a decision is m ...

Posted 15 September 2010 by Paula Mints

tags: Biomass , Biofuels , Navigant , Renewables , RE , climate change , renewable

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AltaTerra FiT freak gives web conference

Rats! I missed it. I planned to dial in to Palo Alto-based AltaTerra’s web conference last month on feed-in tariffs (FiT) but it started at 2pm eastern time, 7pm here. Events, dear e-reader, got in the way. Of course, it was no problem as it’s almost impossible to “miss” any ...

Posted 03 September 2010 by Elizabeth Block

tags: FiT , solar , pv , feed-in tariff

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California AB 722 goes down to … inattentiveness

The California Legislature ended its session without passing a budget, defeating a bill that would have banned the use of plastic carryout bags, advancing a bill to require ships transferring oil to be surrounded by a floating barrier and increasing the fee to pay for oil spill cleanup and ignoring ...

Posted 01 September 2010 by Paula Mints

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California’s FiT and Persistent Faith in the Rational Market Theory, among other things

So much happening in California, much of it crucial to the forward progress of solar in the biggest market in the USA. First, unemployment remains high, the budget remains in limbo with outgoing governor Schwarzenegger willing to let the situation pass on through to the next administration, while i ...

Posted 31 August 2010 by Paula Mints

tags: feed-in tariff , FiT , solar , california

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Look! Up on the roof! Is it a technology? Is it a commodity? Is it an appliance? Yes, it’s all of these things! It’s a Solar Panel!

Caught ya – this is really an article about branding. You know, that marketing function that turns needs into wants and functions into attributes – or, scares the heck out of you and then turns around and offers you a safe place to land while it makes you love being scared. The fu ...

Posted 20 August 2010 by Paula Mints

tags: solar , panel , pv , energy , power , renewable

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Ontario: A complicated new frontier for PV

First came the announcement, then came optimism, then came the announcements, then came the reality checks and finally, the changes to Ontario’s wildly anticipated feed-in tariff; not to kill it off, but to control it and, hopefully, help develop a sustainable market. Historically, Canada has ...

Posted 11 August 2010 by Paula Mints

tags: feed-in tariff , solar , pv , fit , transmission

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Checklist for Developing Your Feed-In Tariff

Look around the FiT landscape and if you can, find one that created a healthy, sustainable market that did not overburden those who are paying for it; Yes, I mean remember the ratepayers; Look around again; Yes, I mean remember the ratepayers, you do not want to make them mad; ...

Posted 31 July 2010 by Paula Mints

tags: feed-in tariff , fit

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Do you need to Speak Solar to Thrive in the Solar Industry

There is a wave of new business professionals in the solar industry – and not all of them speak solar. Every industry has its own language along with a host of acronyms to go along with it. The specific language of business can actually obliterate understanding, but, there is no getting aroun ...

Posted 27 July 2010 by Paula Mints

tags: Solar , PV

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May 2010 summary: Wind and Hydro sparkle in alternative energy

The alternative energy industry witnessed a marginal decrease in the number of deals, but a huge increase in deal value in May 2010. The market reported 212 deals worth US$39.2 billion in May 2010 compared to 219 deals worth US$27.4 billion in April 2010 - an increase of 43% in terms of deal value a ...

Posted 07 July 2010 by GlobalData deal analysis

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April 2010 summary: decreased deal activity

The alternative energy industry witnessed a decrease in the number of deals and deal value in April 2010. The market reported 194 deals worth US$24.4 billion in April 2010, compared to 240 deals worth US$24.9 billion in March 2010. This was a decrease of 19% in terms of the number of deals, and a m ...

Posted 11 June 2010 by GlobalData deal analysis

tags: investment , alternative energy , deals

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Zayed Future Energy Prize sends a message to the transport sector

Taken at face value, the news that the winner of the Zayed Future Energy Prize 2010 (and with it a cool US$1.5 million) is Japanese car manufacture Toyota for its groundbreaking third generation Prius may raise a few initial eyebrows. But the message it sends is an interesting one. There's no doubt ...

Posted 20 January 2010 by David Hopwood

tags: WFES , Toyota Prius , Zayed Future Energy Prize

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COP15: Africa walks out, and in, and…

14 December: This morning the African countries put an extra edge to the Climate Summit by threatening to walk out if the richer countries would not pay more attention to their binding targets. As I wrote earlier, the developing countries want to continue the Kyoto Protocol into a second commitment ...

Posted 15 December 2009 by Rolf de Vos

tags: COP15 , Copenhagen , Climate change

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