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Ten Clean Energy Stocks for 2012: 10 Percent More than Other Top-10 lists

rvdru — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:08:45 +0000

Maybe it was because Seeking Alpha did not carry my annual list of 10 Clean Energy Stocks for 2012 this year, but no one seems to have noticed that there were actually 11 stocks in the list. Call it the Spinal Tap of top-ten lists.

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Solar Fred’s 7 Keys to Why People Share Marketing Materials on the Web

KerSnurnWet — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:00:00 +0000

What triggers you to press one of those share buttons above, or email this post — or any website link — to a colleague or friend? Think about it. Because the keys to knowing why people share things are the keys to so-called “viral” solar marketing.

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Solar Fred’s 7 Keys to Why People Share Marketing Materials on the Web

Asia Report: India Sees 52 Percent Rise in Investments

OVWilliam — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:55:31 +0000

The year 2011 may be remembered in clean energy circles as the moment when India became a major player across several industries.

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Suntech, DuPont to Collab on Solar Backsheets, Supply Chain

freedronizene — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:36:42 +0000

It’s easy to think about modules as singular units of power output, but the reality is that they are a collection of diverse components, each with influence over the end system’s total cost and performance. For DuPont, its focus is of course on the materials side, from metallization pastes used to form contacts on the solar cell, to backsheet materials that protect the panels themselves.

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Suntech, DuPont to Collab on Solar Backsheets, Supply Chain

DOE’s Untold Impact on Solar

MapyUntottKap — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:30:04 +0000

The Obama Administration’s $60 billion Loan Guarantee Program (LGP) for renewable energy is considered a failure because of Solyndra, Beacon Power, and potential 2012 bankruptcies. What is not well known is that 75 percent of the program’s deployed funds went to relatively low risk power plants that will catapult the U.S.

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DOE’s Untold Impact on Solar

spamfil — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:30:04 +0000

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Miasolé Claims 17 Percent Efficient CIGS Device, 14 Percent In Production

Effoffnic — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:23:10 +0000

Miasol? says it has created a 17.3 percent “champion” thin-film copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS) solar photovoltaic device, results obtained in its own labs and not (yet) independently verified.

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Experts Predict End of Month for Ontario FIT Review Update

Illiflell — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:02:34 +0000

By late February the renewable energy industry should have direction from the Ontario government on some of the major changes ahead for the province’s landmark feed-in tariff program.

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If Solar is Contagious, Can Utilities Help Spread the Bug?

TimberlandR — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:00:03 +0000

You may have heard it before, but it is worth mentioning again: In residential communities, solar is contagious. But a recent study, “Peer Effects in the Diffusion of Solar Photovoltaic Panels,” conducted by Bryan Bollinger of the NYU Stern School of Business and Kenneth Gillingham of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, published in December sheds some new light on the phenomenon.

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Europe’s 2011-2012 PV Installs: Two Tales of Growth

Excammari — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:55:51 +0000

Two reports out in the past week examine Europe’s solar PV market in 2011, indicating slowing growth in the flagship countries and promise in some smaller regions for 2012 and beyond. Note that the data that follows is preliminary; final 2011 numbers won’t be known until later in the first quarter, including some likely revisions thanks to a stronger-than-expected fourth quarter in several key regions (more on that below).

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Europe’s 2011-2012 PV Installs: Two Tales of Growth