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Headline	Author	Published	Section
U.S. hits solar snooze button Sharp to boost thin-film solar capacity six-fold to 6,000 MW by 2014	Joseph Romm	05 Oct 2008	Gristmill
The world's second-largest maker of solar batteries plans a massive increase in capacity to meet soaring demand. Bloomberg reports: The company will raise the capacity to 6 gigawatts as early as 2014, from 1 gigawatt estimated for 2010 ... Sharp, which lost its market-leading position to Thalheim, Germany-based Q-Cells AG last year, is focusing on expanding its solar-cell output through thin-film technology. This uses 1 percent the amount of silicon needed for co ...
Topics: business, economy, energy, renewable energy, solar thermal power, solar voltaic power, tech (all these topics)

McKinsey on the economics of solar Business consulting firm projects robust growth for solar and grid parity in many locations by 2020	David Roberts	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
McKinsey has a great new analysis piece: 'The economics of solar power.' Overall it's extremely optimistic, saying that despite uncertainties around technology and policy, growth in the solar sector is all but certain to be robust. Here's a interesting chart. The size of the yellow ball is the size of the solar market in TWh. The upper right of the chart is 'grid parity' -- i.e., solar electricity selling for roughly the same price as fossil electricity. Notice tha ...
Topics: economy, energy, renewable energy, solar thermal power, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Sustainable economy 101 Lessons from Europe and Japan	Jon Rynn	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The following article appeared in Foreign Policy in Focus, and was reposted at commondreams.org. When New York City wanted to make the biggest purchase of subway cars in U.S. history in the late 1990s -- more than $3 billion worth -- the only companies that were able to bid on the contract were foreign. The same problem applies to high-speed rail today: Only European or Japanese companies can build any of the proposed rail networks in the United States. The U.S. has als ...
Topics: business, economy, energy, greenish companies, renewable energy, solar thermal power, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

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