Happy Monday, everyone. Here’s your daily jolt of solar news and info — short and sweet, just like you like it…
Dan Fink of SunPluggers has a great primer on energy efficiency and conservation. Bottom line: it’s a best practice to reduce your electricity consumption first; boost the energy efficiency of your home second; and install solar panels third. Related GetSolar reading: Five Things You Should Do Before You Get Solar.
Thin-film maker First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR) is in a holding pattern over what would be a gigantic solar photovoltaic (PV) installation in Inner Mongolia, in China, via Reuters. Plans for the two-gigawatt installation are contingent on the rate paid for the facility’s output, which will be set by Chinese officials.
SunEdison on Friday announced it will partner with Weingarten Realty, a real estate investment trust (REIT), to roll out up to 10 megawatts of rooftop solar installations in Arizona and New Mexico. SunEdison, which was several months acquired by MEMC Electronic Materials (NYSE:WFR), is the biggest solar energy services provider in North America.
In related solar stocks news, MEMC will purchase Solaicx, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based company that owns low-cost technology for manufacturing monocrystalline solar wafers, via Barron’s. MEMC will acquire the privately held company for around $76 million.
Yingli Green Energy (NYSE:YGE) — the China-based solar-panel manufacturer that will power France’s largest solar installation — managed a first-quarter profit, thanks to rising demand, via Reuters. Gross margin, notably, doubled to 33 percent.
Finally today, what do you get when you combine a window with a solar panel? Apparently this, from Pythagoras Solar.
That’s all for this Monday — we’ll see you back here tomorrow.
