Solar News 1) Asian Development Bank puts $30 million into pure play renewable Indian company NSL Renewables 2) Indian solar developers lobby to stop anti dumping duty on solar panel imports 3) After Google, Verizon makes a big push into green energy to become more environmentally sustainable 4) Chinese giant Hanergy pushes into the downstream […]

Solarworld to Sell itself Solarworld is on the brink of collapse and is looking to sell itself. I have remained quite critical of Solarworld’s prospects in the past and had even said that CEO Asbeck will never get a salary. Solar manufacturing in western factories has become impossible due to the cut throat competition from […]

Solar News 1) Yingli Energy gets a $165 million loan from China Development Bank (CDB) for working capital and other purposes (LDK and Renesola have got loans from CDB in the past 3 months as well) 2) CIGs startup Solopower goes bust follows the Solyndra way (Solopower had picked up employees from bankrupt Solyndra earlier) 3) Even as […]

LDK sells Piecemeal The bankrupt Chinese solar giant is selling itself piecemeal to generate enough cash to sustain operations. The LDK Solar (LDK) stock has zero value though it still supports a market capitalization of more then $100 million in the US stock market. The company has zero chance of servicing its monstrous $3 billion […]

Solar Price Rise – Fact or Fiction The solar module prices, which were crashing continuously have shown a hike for the first time in the biggest European market, since the last four years. The main reason being cited is the equilibrium reached between demand and supply. I had to doubly check to re-confirm, that the […]

India should fight back by imposing duties on Solar Panel Imports The Indian government has finally woken up and taken the fight to the US in the domestic content case for solar panel usage. I had already written how the US had made India a sucker in the case when First Solar (FSLR) has won […]