The Indian Government under the Jawaharlal Nehru Solar Mission has proposed ambitious plans for the development of solar energy with a 20 GW target by 2022. This implies almost 1 GW of solar energy to be installed per year in the country.At the current prices that is an impressive $4 billion in investment per year.Naturally […]

Jinko Solar  managed to list today at the bottom end of the range at $11.Earlier they had to cancel their  plan to list in February due to weak market conditions.Well it seems they had to  IPO otherwise the founders and owners would have been left nothing from this excerpt taken from their F1 filing with […]

US has been a laggard in matters of in the climate mitigation issue compared to   Japan and Europe.They are even having trouble in formulating the bill let alone passing it.News comes from Reuters that a “Climate Bill” that will provide subsidies and support for Nuclear Energy and Oil Drilling may be proposed to the Senate […]

Samsung has started taking baby steps into the green business while signaling big intentions about growth and investment.The Company sees most of the future growth to be driven by clean technology,while noting that some the areas where it is dominant in might not exist at all in the future.It  already has existing small business lines […]

China’s rise in solar manufacturing has been nothing short of spectacular.From less than 5% of world marketshare it has gone to more than 50% in the current quarter.Some of its companies like Trina and Yingli are the lowest cost producers of solar modules in the world today.The Europeans like Solarworld and Q-Cells which were dominant […]

Choosing an Alternative Energy ETF – Seeking Alpha Gives a good idea on which ETFs are out there to invest in green technology,though you would have to research the merits of them by yourself Can drip irrigation break Africa’s hunger cycles? – Reuters Water Scarcity is going to be the biggest problems of the 21st […]