Solar world record goes to NREL and back

Greenbang has just seen possibly the most efficient thing ever - not Mary Poppins tidying up the bedrooms of parentless kids using magic, but the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory or NREL, if you will, has busted the record for photovoltaic solar cell efficiency wide open, topping out at 40.8 per cent. Greenbang…

ByThe Global ViewAugust 18, 20080Comments

Energy

Solar electricity cheap as grid leccy by 2012

If you think about it (and Greenbang regularly does) so many of the world's greatest and most unanswerable questions start with the the word when. 'When was the universe created', for example, or 'when's tea ready?' or 'when will there be a harvest for the world?' or 'when do the binmen come?' So many questions, so…

ByThe Global ViewJune 25, 20083Comments

Energy

Intel spins off solar unit with $50m funding

While SpectraWatt may be a name better suited to a nefarious criminal gang on the wrong side of The Avengers, it's actually the new solar unit that chip giant Intel has spun off. (Greenbang has always been afraid of the term spin-off: she imagines a company pirouetting through the vacuum of space, Silent Running…

ByThe Global ViewJune 17, 20080Comments

Energy

Bosch buys Ersol for €546.4 million

Why multinational Bosch would fancy naming itself after a Hieronymus Bosch, a fella who specialised in visions of hell and nasty stuff happening to sinners, is beyond Greenbang. Also beyond Greenbang: the namesake of its latest renewables acquisition. Ersol. Yes, Bosch has decided it won't feel complete until it's got a solar company under its belt, so…

ByThe Global ViewJune 3, 20080Comments

Energy

Masdar spends $2bn on new photovoltaic plant

More goings on at Masdar, the renewable energy company and bunch behind the oh-so-sustainable city set to be built in the Abu Dhabi desert. Masdar's decided that there just isn't enough investment out there in solar, so it's dishing out $2 billion to thin film photovoltaic solar technology with a plan that goes a little something…

ByThe Global ViewJune 2, 20080Comments

Energy

VCs snap up Euro-solar double for €261 million

When VCs go shopping, they really go shopping. Wandering merrily through the racks of renewables companies, VC fund First Reserve has taken a "And I'll need a pair of earrings to go with this frock" approach to acquisitions: the frock is a fetching Spanish solar number, Gamesa Solar; the earrings, a saucy Italian job: photovoltaic…

ByThe Global ViewMay 1, 20080Comments

Smart Cities

Orb wins $1m for Indian solar selling

Perusing the website of Orb Energy, Greenbang was taken on a mental musical mystery tour. The landing page of the site bears the legend 'you've got the power. Before Greenbang could get any deeper into the site, she was assailed mentally by thoughts of Snap's mid 90s charttopper The Power and then subsequently, Spandau Ballet's…

ByThe Global ViewApril 10, 20080Comments

Energy

AES, Riverstone team on $1 billion solar venture

AES: three little words worth a wholes hedload of dollars. Well, Greenbang says shedloads, but on reflection, I guess it depends on the size of the shed in question. Can sheds fit $1 billion in it? Has anyone ever tried? Greenbang would like to find out. To inject some sense into this shedbased ramble: AES Solar…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 26, 20080Comments

Smart Cities

Mitsubishi breaks solar record, invests 7 billion yen

As Roy Castle sang, "If you want to be the best, if you want to beat the rest, ooo-ooo, dedication's what you need - if you want to be a record breaker". If Castle's comments are right, then in seems Mitsubishi Electrics has got dedication (ooo-ooo) in abundance. The company has just revealed its got a…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 24, 20081Comment

Smart Cities

Dubya pumps $13.7 million into uni solar studies

Greenbang strongly suspects that no one has been telling the US Department of Energy to "stick their money where the sun don't shine" for two reasons: one, they've given away $13.7 million in grants and you don't want to offend someone with a wallet that big and two, the grants are for solar power research,…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 17, 20080Comments

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Solar world record goes to NREL and back

Solar electricity cheap as grid leccy by 2012

Intel spins off solar unit with $50m funding

Bosch buys Ersol for €546.4 million

Masdar spends $2bn on new photovoltaic plant

VCs snap up Euro-solar double for €261 million

Orb wins $1m for Indian solar selling

AES, Riverstone team on $1 billion solar venture

Mitsubishi breaks solar record, invests 7 billion yen

Dubya pumps $13.7 million into uni solar studies

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