2012

August 22, 2012

India’s Green Poster-child Suzlon in Death Spiral as Debt Load forces it to Sell Key Assets

Suzlon, The Wind Turbine Manufacturer Suzlon which is India’s largest pure play green company and one of the largest wind turbine manufactures globally has been stuck […]
August 21, 2012

Solar Panel prices Crash to just 72 cents /watt as Germany, Italy demand pull in end, Chinese Government refuses to let Insolvent Companies go Bankrupt

The price crash for solar panels seem to be never ending with the latest solar module prices ending at around 72c/watt for normal crystalline solar panels. […]
August 21, 2012

Uttar Pradesh Solar Policy promoting Land Hogging Ground Mounted Solar Farms seems Misguided – Sets 1000 MW Target in next 5 years

Solar Policy in Uttar Pradesh India’s largest state in terms of population Uttar Pradesh, is set to come out with a 5 year solar policy to […]
August 20, 2012

Green Solar Panels and Cells for Homes, Buildings – What does it Mean?

Green Solar Cells & Panels Concept Green Solar Panels & Cells is a recent technology to manufacture solar cells & panels by isolating chlorophyll, the plant […]
August 19, 2012

GWI Weekly Newsletter – Did you miss Anything?

All Posts Published on GWI for the Week Ending 19th August 2012: Biggest Chinese Solar Panel Company implodes into a Penny Stock – Culmination of Suntech’s […]
August 19, 2012

More Corporate Government Malfeasance Exposed as Indian Conglomerate GMR comes under Attack by India’s Auditing Body

GMR in Spotlight Now GMR is one of India’s largest infrastructure/construction companies with presence in roads, power, airports, construction etc. Like other infra majors the company […]
August 18, 2012

Why CSE is dead wrong About the Reason behind the Failure of the Indian Domestic Solar Panel Industry

Solar Industry in India Solar power in India is one of the fastest growing energy industry and with the prices of solar energy falling continuously; it […]
August 17, 2012

India’s Agriculture Policy a Big Mess as Hundreds & Millions Malnourished, as Farm Exports Grow by 88%

Agriculture in India Recent Media reports have lauded the current Indian Government for increasing the rate of investment in the Agriculture sector and raising rural incomes […]
August 16, 2012

Do Indian State Governments’ Plans of building massive Solar Power Plants, on their own make sense?

State Governments in India have been driving the growth of solar energy in India by giving subsidies and auctioning capacities at favorable electricity tariffs. Some states […]
August 16, 2012

Best Strategy to Enter the Japanese Market – Joint Ventures and Alliance with Locally Connected Companies

Japan Entering the Japanese market is notoriously hard for foreign companies as they run into major implicit and explicit barriers. Like the Chinese, the Japanese have […]
August 15, 2012

Read Why the Best Investment over the Next Decade is based on Malthus Scarcity Theory

Top global asset manager Grantham has been calling that the rising commodity prices is not a cyclical phenomenon but rather a major structural inflection point. Note […]
August 14, 2012

As Publicly Listed Indian State Companies mince Minority Shareholder Right, a Foreign Pension Fund takes up the Fight

State owned Indian companies have trodden over minority shareholder rights for a long time now. Ever since these companies were listed, minority shareholders have been getting […]
August 14, 2012

Energy Colossus – General Electric says that Nuclear Reactors no longer Economically Viable as Natural Gas and Solar Energy Prices Plummet

Nuclear Energy As the whole world is fixated on the debate about on using and not using nuclear power for energy generation, the anti-nuclear protestors have […]
August 13, 2012

Why Indian Judges are Asking for Solar Power?

What we have been writing about in Greenworldinvestor that solar power in India will be the biggest energy opportunity in the 21st century, which has been […]
August 13, 2012

Biggest Chinese Solar Panel Company implodes into a Penny Stock – Culmination of Suntech’s long history of Management Blunders

Suntech Suntech was the biggest solar panel supplier in 2011 shipping almost 2000 MW of solar modules to various countries around the globe. Suntech, which is […]
August 9, 2012

Why the recent Assam Violence is only a Trailer to a much Longer Horror Movie, as unchecked Illegal Bangladeshi Migration leads to Demographic Dislocation of Indigenous Indian Communities

Illegal Migration of Bangladeshi Citizens to India Huge illegal migration into India by millions of Bangladesh citizens every year is a fact which almost everybody in […]
August 9, 2012

Greenland Ice Sheet melts an Unprecedented 97% This Summer but World Refuses to Wake Up to Climate Change

Greenland The ice sheet in Greenland has been melting to an increasing extent almost every year in the recent past summers giving one of the most […]
August 8, 2012

90% of Solar Companies to go Bankrupt and Shortage will Hit Industry in 2014 – JA Solar

The CEO of the biggest solar cell company in the world JA Solar has said that he sees the current vicious industry downturn leading to 90% […]
August 8, 2012

Renewable Certificate Prices in India Volatile – reason being Renewable Purchase Obligations (RPO) Enforcement Uncertainty

Renewable Energy Certificate Renewable Energy Certificate prices in India are showing massive volatility with prices going down by almost 20% in one month as supply exceeded […]
August 7, 2012

WSJ Fires Biomass Energy for Pollution, however Fails to Discuss Coal Hazards causing Thousands of Deaths each year

Biomass Biomass Energy is the non-glamorous green energy form, which is one of mankind’s biggest energy providers. Biomass Energy is not frequently used to generate electricity […]
August 7, 2012

Biggest Risk to Apple is not Samsung, but Chinese Telecom Giants Huawei and ZTE commoditizing the Smart Phone Market

Smart Phone Industry When you talk of the smartphone market, the talk is all about Apple and Samsung who have cornered over half of the global […]
August 6, 2012

Why Solarworld CEO Frank Asbeck Will Never Receive a Salary Again

Solarworld Solarworld CEO Frank Asbeck has announced that he will stop taking his salary of half a million euros till his company returns to profitability again. […]
August 6, 2012

Globalization of Loot – 92,000 People Stash Mindboggling $21 Trillion in Tax Havens

Globalization It has been said time and again how Globalization has led to increasing prosperity around the globe with free movement of capital and trade. But […]
August 3, 2012

Indian Mid Cap Stocks remain a Manipulator’s Wet Dream as Rumors, Scandals rule over Fundamentals

The Indian Stock Market remains a highly manipulated one, despite the more than one trillion dollar in combined market capitalization. While most of the large cap […]
August 2, 2012

Wind Energy Industry of India in 2012, finds going tough as Local bodies start to Tax Wind Turbines in Tamil Nadu

Local Taxation on Indian Wind Turbines The Indian Wind Industry in 2012 is finding the going a bit difficult after a record breaking year in 2011. […]
August 2, 2012

Solar Inverter Industry in 2012 – Marketshare Churn even as Revenue remains Flat

The Solar Inverter Industry The Solar Inverter Industry has remained relatively stable compared to the solar panel industry due to fewer number of players and higher […]
August 1, 2012

Why Mainstream Media is getting being Beaten by New Age Media – Lack of Profit Motive

Mainstream Media Vs. New Age Media Mainstream Media particularly Newspapers are facing a structural decline, even as new age media like Blogs grows. The growth of […]
August 1, 2012

Indian Nuclear Accidents remain Shrouded in Secrecy and Opacity

One of the crowning achievements (if you can call that) of the current Government in India was the pact with USA which removed India from the […]
July 31, 2012

Corruption in India leading to Massive Job and Livelihood Losses even as the Guilty go Scot Free

Corruption in Indian Telecom Industry India has been rocked by numerous new corruption scandals and scams in the recent past. One of the biggest was the […]
July 31, 2012

Why Yingli, Trina, Suntech Have become Desperate as Global Solar Panel War Intensifies

The biggest Chinese solar panel producers like Sunech, Trina ,Yingli and Canadian Solar have come out strongly against the recent filing of a complaint of dumping […]