Evergreen Solar, Inc. announced its intent to shut down operations at its Devens manufacturing facility to better position the company to pursue its industry standard size wafer strategy and preserve the company’s liquidity. The company also provided updates on its industry standard wafer development activities and selected preliminary results for the quarter ended December 31, […]
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GE to Acquire Lineage Power
GE announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire privately-held Lineage Power Holdings, Inc., from The Gores Group, LLC. Lineage Power is a leading global provider of high-efficiency power conversion infrastructure technology and services for the telecommunications and datacenter industries. The deal will open the door for GE Energy technology to be deployed in […]
ABB Enters US market for Electric Vehicle Infrastructure with ECOtality Stake
ABB has invested $10 million in San Francisco-based ECOtality, a clean electric transportation and storage technologies company, to enter North America’s electric vehicle (EV) charging market and provide ECOtality with a strong global ally in power delivery systems. ECOtality will use the investment to foster its expansion and finance initial requirements of the EV Project, […]
GE Acquires Lineage Power
GE announced it has signed an agreement to acquire privately-held Lineage Power Holdings, Inc., from The Gores Group, LLC. Lineage Power is a leading global provider of high-efficiency power conversion infrastructure technology and services for the telecommunications and datacenter industries. The deal will open the door for GE Energy technology to be deployed in the $20 […]
FuelCell Energy Announces Registered Direct Offering of Common Stock
FuelCell Energy, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with an institutional investor to sell an aggregate of 10,160,428 units at a negotiated price of $1.87 per unit, with each unit consisting of (i) one share of its common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”) and (ii) one warrant to […]
Motech Industries and Innovalight Sign Agreement for Solar Cells with Silicon Ink Technology
Innovalight, Inc. announced that it signed an agreement with Motech Industries, Inc. to develop high performance solar cells using silicon ink manufactured by Innovalight. Motech describes itself as a pioneer in the manufacturing and marketing of high-quality single and multicrystalline silicon solar cells in Taiwan. Motech, which reached a gigawatt in production capacity in the […]
DC-DC Converter and IC Markets Identified
The real changes occurring in the dc-dc converter module and IC market are at the power architecture and advanced materials levels. In fact, the emergence of the Dynamic Bus Architecture (DBA) will be one of the most significant developments in the power supply industry in 10 years. These developments are highlighted in a new global […]
Happy (But Cold) New Year(5)
It’s gotten chilly in Washington, D.C., but that’s probably old news to most of the country. I was thinking about it this morning, though, when there was a definite draft whistling from my bedroom windows. My family lives in a condo, so we have limited options for replacing the windows (that’s more of a whole-building […]
GM, Argonne Sign Licensing Deal for Advanced Battery Chemistry
General Motors Co. and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory announced that they have reached a worldwide licensing agreement to use Argonne’s patented composite cathode material to make advanced lithium-ion batteries that last longer between charges and can charge at higher voltages. “The creation of this battery technology represents an important return on […]
First Solar Acquires RayTracker Inc.
First Solar, Inc. and RayTracker, Inc. announced that First Solar has acquired RayTracker, Inc., a tracking technology and photovoltaic (PV) balance-of-systems firm that is an operating company of Idealab, a creator and operator of technology companies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. RayTracker’s entire team will join First Solar’s Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) […]