1366 Technologies, a new MIT start-up aiming to make silicon solar cells competitive with coal, yesterday announced it has secured $12.4 million in a first round of financing co-led by North Bridge Venture Partners and Polaris Venture Partners. MIT...
Category - Solar power
Phoenix Solar has signed a general contractor agreement with a US investor for the construction of two solar power plants in Granada, Spain. The ground-mounted power plants will have a nominal power of around 4.7 megawatts in total, which...
In the wake of the recent Washingtion Post report that denounced a solar panel Chinese supplier dumping toxic waste in a village, the Solar Energy Industries Association has released a damage control statement. “This story was the first we had...
First, before we get on to some exciting news in the world of solar power technology, I’d like to point you to this blog on Treehugger, which is also about the solar panel toxic waste scandal in China that we blogged about on Energy Refuge as...
Here’s some reporting that shows that greed can compromise even the most environmentally viable of clean energy production methods, that is, solar power. The Washington Post published a story over the weekend denouncing the Luoyang Zhonggui...
