photovoltaic

Aug
18

Solar world record goes to NREL and back

Greenbang has just seen possibly the most efficient thing ever – not Mary Poppins tidying up the bedrooms of parentless kids
2 min read
Jun
25

Solar electricity cheap as grid leccy by 2012

If you think about it (and Greenbang regularly does) so many of the world’s greatest and most unanswerable questions
2 min read
Jun
17

Intel spins off solar unit with $50m funding

While SpectraWatt may be a name better suited to a nefarious criminal gang on the wrong side of The Avengers,
1 min read
Jun
03

Bosch buys Ersol for €546.4 million

Why multinational Bosch would fancy naming itself after a Hieronymus Bosch, a fella who specialised in visions of hell and
1 min read
Jun
02

Masdar spends $2bn on new photovoltaic plant

More goings on at Masdar, the renewable energy company and bunch behind the oh-so-sustainable city set to be built in
1 min read
May
01

VCs snap up Euro-solar double for €261 million

When VCs go shopping, they really go shopping. Wandering merrily through the racks of renewables companies, VC fund First Reserve
1 min read
Apr
10

Orb wins $1m for Indian solar selling

Perusing the website of Orb Energy, Greenbang was taken on a mental musical mystery tour. The landing page of the
1 min read
Mar
26

AES, Riverstone team on $1 billion solar venture

AES: three little words worth a wholes hedload of dollars. Well, Greenbang says shedloads, but on reflection, I guess it
1 min read
Mar
24

Mitsubishi breaks solar record, invests 7 billion yen

As Roy Castle sang, “If you want to be the best, if you want to beat the rest, ooo-ooo, dedication’
1 min read
Mar
17

Dubya pumps $13.7 million into uni solar studies

Greenbang strongly suspects that no one has been telling the US Department of Energy to “stick their money where the
5 min read