GE invests in Spanish CSP plant

DFN: GE is investing in a 50MW solar power plant using CSP technology and salt storage in Spain. This is an existing power plant reduces pollutants by almost 150K tons. 111M EUR but article doesn’t say how much GE is buying, so I can’t impute a value for the entire 50MW plant. GE Unit Invests [...]

Networking is Life (or, will add life to your job search)

DFN: There’s a GREAT website regarding ‘job search’, Glassdoor.com/blog; this article is from that site; The last three jobs (as an employee) that I’ve gotten have been through networking, they’ve come from connections that I’ve made over the last eight years as a member of the Job Connections group in Danville, California. Key points in [...]

Manager of Market Planning & Analysis

Manager of Market Planning and Analysis POSITION SUMMARY: Under the direct supervision of the VP Sales and Marketing, theManager, Market Planning & Analysis will perform the following activities;routine competitive research and analysis, new markets analysis, evaluation ofREC/SREC markets, as well as assist in developing Company policy with regard toREC/SRECs, evaluating and monitoring public policy and [...]

More about the loan(s) to Solyndra

DFN: Summary: Solyndra got a loan from the Federal Goverment for a plant in Fremont, CA to build new solar panels. Technology / company got into trouble, two venture capital firms stepped up with new funding, and the new loan was bumped ahead of the Federal Governments original  loan in terms of who would get [...]

Moving Beyond Solyndra

DFN: Article argues for removal of government subsidies to the solar industry; solar shingles over solar panels; suggest US has to create ‘grid parity’ with alternative sources of energy. Whcih I read as oil & gas prices have to increase while solar prices need to continue to decline. Moving Beyond Solyndra: Vital Steps the Solar [...]

SunEdison Gets $300M project financing for solar projects

DFN: SunEdison is moving its corporate headquarters over to the SF penisula, its a subsidiary of MEMC (ticker symbol WFR) BELTSVILLE, Md., Oct. 12, 2011 – SunEdison, a leading worldwide solar energy services provider and a subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., has secured a $300 million three-year project finance revolving credit facility arranged by [...]

Solar Millennium / Solarhybrid conditionally agree on sale of solar projects in US

Solar Millennium AG : and solarhybrid AG conditionally agree on sale of power plant projects in the US Solar Millennium to sell its project pipeline with an output of 2.25 gigawatts Value of all US investments secured and significant profit-sharing in project realization Start of construction of the Blythe solar power plant could come as [...]

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