GLG News by Solar Panel Manufacturing Experts

Despite trepidations over the lapsing of US federal incentives, the domestic photovoltaic market continues to consolidate to take advantage of better economy of scale.  Photovoltaic installations in the US now number over 10,000 a year, growth that will continue to increase once new federal incentives...

This story on a US based installer setting up shop in Mediterranean Europe is a good example of the challenges of dealing with what was until recently two of the hottest PV markets in the world for 2009 - Spain and the United States.  The dynamics of what the changes in incentives will do and how...

Feed in tariffs, a way to provide measured funding for photovoltaic and other renewable energy systems, has been successful in bringing these technologies to market.  Paying only for performance, requiring outside financing, steadily reduced rates and caps on rate impacts have enabled solar and...

The Pickens Plan is not bad in itself, being grounded in the reality of changing markets and led by a businessman who has actually invested in the process.  What may be more important is that the Plan could shake the monopolistic grip that fossil and nuclear energy has on our infrastructure and...

The media is saturated by energy companies promising a painless path to continued cheap supplies, and cleaner to boot.  Meanwhile, T Boone Pickens has burst upon this complacency with a campaign that act as a wake up call to drastically shake up how we guzzle our fuel.  What ever one thinks...

We are mesmerized by the present high price of oil, but that's only a part of the picture.  Natural gas and coal prices, water scarcity and a steadily declining large household base will essentially spell the beginning of the end of the housing, vehicle and development sprawl.

I am finding a slight case of irrational exuberance seeping into the photovoltaic prediction industry.  The latest is a prediction reported in the Financial Times of a fivefold increase of photovoltaic production by 2010.  The industry will grow nicely, but not at this frenetic rate.

Hawaii has broken new ground in becoming the first state to require solar water heaters in new construction.  This policy joins an array of others employed by states and localities to develop renewable energy markets in lieu of federal paralysis.   It will not be a magic bullet with federal...

Bertrand Cambou, CEO of Spansion, has an opinion on Numonyx' push into phase-change memories: "Phase-change memory is pure marketing fluff." Although Cambou is correct that existing Numonyx phase change memories are not ready for prime time, the situation will be quite different below 32nm, which...

There is still a tremendous bias to find "the" answer to the challenge of providing cleanly, affordable and secure energy that is also profitable to investors.  Our centralized, command-and-control way of extracting and delivering non-renewable energy blinds us to the fact that even there, different...