Alion Energy, the California based company wants to reduce solar energy costs. Alion Energy was founded in 2008 and is an EPC and O&M solutions provider. Alion Inc. designs construction process for utility scale solar plants by using robotic installation technology, combined with the established construction industry practices. Alion Energy builds utility scale systems about 2x […]
The Indian states have been building large amount of solar capacity through the reverse auction process of giving out solar power farms to developers. The prices have been quite low for these ground mounted farms and Punjab managed to get bids of 13-14c/Kwh for the 250 MW of capacity it gave out to developers. Read […]
Siemens to close its last solar shop – Solel Energy Siemens is now getting out of the solar business, with its decision to shut down Solel Energy. Siemens was in the look out for a buyer for Solel Energy, since the last six-seven months. But due to non-availability of a purchaser, it decided to close […]
Cheap money and over-investment has led to a catastrophic overcapacity in the solar panel industry leading to solar panel prices falling by more than 80% in the last 2-3 years, while hundreds of companies have gone bankrupt. The net margins of most companies remain negative and the industry has seen billions of dollars in losses […]
Solar News 1) TSMC and Solar Frontier release high efficiency CIGs solar thin film modules with efficiency around 15% 2) GTM sees module costs at just 36c/watt by 2017 from best in class solar panel companies 3) Solar on new home becomes a growing trend in California with 20% new home installing solar which raises the value considerably […]
Net Metering Distributed solar energy is growing at an exponential rate with 80,000 homes in the US installing solar panels last year, raising the total to 270,000 homes. This rate is set to continue as solar energy prices keep going down and fossil fuel prices become more and more expensive (not considering the temporary decrease […]