AltEnToday

I’m going to start doing a lot more company spotlights in the near future. These will be simple summaries of the companies and people that are currently involved in the alternative energy industries.
Company Name
SunPower Corporation
Headquarters
3939 N. 1st Street, San Jose, CA 95134
Snapshot
SunPower Corporation is a publicly traded (NASDAQ: SPWR) company that specializes in the “…design, [...]

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CNet reported today that San Francisco-based SunRun has secured a $12 million venture round from Menlo Park venture capital firm Foundation Capital. In terms of energy finance deals, this is a drop in the bucket - but perhaps SunRun’s aspirations of becoming an economical energy provider for potentially millions of customers in California (and beyond) [...]

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I’ve realized, in only the last few weeks of research, that there’s a great deal of “hype” surrounding the solar industry today. In once sense, there seems to be a strong push towards solar - news articles crop up every day about new investments, new technology, new companies, and new prospects for this industry. But [...]

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Looking around at some solar industry sites, I’ve realized there’s quite a bit of jargon and shorthand that I don’t fully understand yet. Overall, a cell’s crystalinity is a description of the amount of order within the cell, so a high-level of order yields a higher level of crystalinity.
Crystal-Si: Crystalline Silicon - Single Crystalline Silicon [...]

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This weekend I got the chance to fly out of Long Beach Airport, and was intrigued as I stepped outside the main terminal to see several solar panels in the baggage claim area. There are several solar panels perched about 12 feet in the air on metal pylons which makes them unobtrusive and provides welcome [...]

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