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ENDNOTES 02 MARKET AND INDUSTRY TRENDS – SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAICS 170 93 “First Solar Announces Partnership with GE, c-Si Production,” PV News, September 2013, p. 3; “SolarCity Brings Solar to Honda Customers,” PV News, April 2013, p. 8; “BMW’s Solar Partnership Helps Give EV Industry a Jolt,” Greenbiz.com, 2 December 2013, http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2013/12/02/bmw-solar- partnership-e-series-solarcity; “IKEA to Offer Solar Installations in the UK,” PV News, November 2013, p. 6. Other examples: SunPower (United States) partnered with U.S. home builders— including KB Home, Richmond American Homes, Lennar, and Pulte, to construct solar homes—from Chris Meehan, “Solar Likely on 20% of New Homes in California in 2013,” Renewable Energy World, 17 June 2013, http://www.renewableenergyworld. com/rea/blog/post/2013/06/solar-likely-on-20-of-new-homes-in- california-in-2013; “Solarcentury, Momentous Energy Form JV in Africa,” PV News, September 2013, p. 5. 94 For example, Yingli Green Energy (China) formed a joint venture with Datong Coal Mine Group, China’s third largest state-owned coal mining company, to develop and build solar PV plants, per Andy Colthorpe, “Yingli forms JV with Chinese state-owned coal mining company,” PV-tech, 2 January 2014, http://www.pv-tech. org/news/yingli_green_forms_jv_with_chinese_state_owned_ coal_mining_company; Yingli also entered into an investment agreement with China Rich Energy Corporation (a subsidiary of China National Nuclear Corporation) to develop and construct distributed solar projects across China, per “Yingli Forms JV in China, Signs Distribution Agreement in Japan,” PV News, February 2014, p. 4; while traditional Chinese energy investors, such as China Power Investment Corp., are racing to develop large projects in western China, so are non-energy companies like Huabei Express (toll road operator) and Jiangsu Kuangda Auto Textile Group, per Charlie Zhu, “China’s Solar Industry Rebounds, But Will Boom-Bust Cycle Repeat?” Reuters, 24 January 2014, http://planetark.org/wen/70925; in India, Coal India Limited and Neyveli Lignite Corporation, both large mining companies, and Oil India Limited are also moving into solar, from Sumit Moitra, “Coal India Gets into Solar Power,” DNA India, 27 May 2013, http:// www.dnaindia.com/money/report-coal-india-gets-into-solar- power-1839903, and from Bridge to India, “Our Market View,” India Solar Weekly Market Update, 24 May 2013; Google partnered with Silver Ridge Power (formerly AES Solar) in the 265.7 MW Mount Signal Solar project in California, per “Google Invests in Mount Signal Solar,” PV News, November 2013, p. 7. 95 Mergers and acquisitions included, for example, Mitsubishi Corp (Japan) acquired stakes in solar plants in France, per Chisaki Watanabe, “Mitsubishi Buys Stakes in France from Energies Nouvelles,” Bloomberg, 19 August 2013, http:// www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/08/ mitsubishi-buys-solar-stakes-in-france-from-energies-nouvelles; in the United States, Real Goods (United States) expanded through the purchase of other installers, Mercury Solar Systems and Syndicated Solar, from “Real Goods Solar Expands with Multiple Acquisitions,” PV News, September 2013, p. 5; SolarCity (United States) acquired at least two companies, from “SolarCity Acquires Paramount Solar,” PV News, September 2013, p. 5, and from “SolarCity Acquires Zep Solar for $158 Million,” PV News, November 2013, p. 4; project purchases from Mercom Capital Group, cited in Montgomery, op. cit. note 82. 96 S.A.G Solarstrom and Gehrlicher filed for insolvency, from “S.A.G. Solarstrom Files for Insolvency,” PV News, January 2014, p. 5; and from “Gehrlicher Files for Insolvency, Blames EU Tariffs,” PV News, August 2013, p. 5; Gehrlicher’s U.S. division, Gehrlicher Solar America Corporation was acquired by the U.S. division of M+W Group (Germany), per Edgar Meza, “M+W Americas Acquires Gerlicher Solar America,” PV Magazine, 22 August 2013, http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/mw-americas- acquires-gehrlicher-solar-america-_100012474/; “Juwi Opens Subsidiary in Dubai,” PV News, November 2013, p. 5. 97 “SunEdison Buys Khosla-Funded EchoFirst,” PV News, September 2013, p. 5. 98 Ucilia Wang, “SunPower to Launch Solar Leases Overseas,” Renewable Energy World, 16 May 2013, http://www. renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/05/ sunpower; Deutsche Bank Markets Research, op. cit. note 68, p. 19; “SunPower Introduces Residential Solar Loan in Australia,” “SolarWorld Launches Financing Plan in Hawaii,” and “HelioPower Buys Financial Solutions Company Greenzu,” all from PV News, October 2013, pp. 5–6; “SunPower, Canadian Solar Announce Loan Programs,” PV News, November 2013, p. 5; James Montgomery, “Why the Money’s Flowing into US Residential Solar Markets,” Renewable Energy World, 18 October 2013, http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/ article/2013/10/why-the-moneys-flowing-into-us-residential- solar-models; “Upsolar to Offer Solar Leasing France,” PV News, January 2014, pp. 5–6; in Fiji, a private company Sunergise has introduced SunLease scheme in which they provide the capital costs for PV installations to commercial entities and charge a fixed rate for electricity produced, from Atul Raturi, University of the South Pacific, personal communication with REN21, 13 April 2014, and from http://www.sunergisegroup.com/. 99 Toshiba will install systems in apartments and operate and manage them, selling power at below rate charged by utilities, per “Toshiba to Launch Innovative Photovoltaic Power Business for Apartment Buildings in Germany,” press release (Tokyo: 4 December 2013), http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2013_12/ pr0401.htm; “Toshiba steigt in deutschen Photovoltaikmarkt ein,” Photovoltaik.eu, 12 April 2013, http://www.photovoltaik. eu/Toshiba-steigt-in-deutschen-Photovoltaikmarkt- ein,QUlEPTU2NTI4OCZNSUQ9MzAwMjE.html. 100 Martin LaMonica, “Solar Crowdfunding Trend Is Heating Up,” Green Biz, 17 January 2014, http://www.greenbiz.com/ blog/2014/01/17/new-product-solarcity-crowdsourcing; Davide Savenije and Bill Opalka, “Four Solar Trends to Watch in 2014,” Utility Dive, 17 January 2014, http://www.utilitydive.com/news/ four-solar-trends-to-watch-in-2014/. For other examples of innovative financing developments, see “Mosaic Awarded $1 Million, Plans International Expansion,” and “Conergy Launches Commercial Financing Program,” both in PV News, February 2014, p. 5. 101 Roselund, op. cit. note 39. 102 U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), “Best Research-Cell Efficiencies,” http://www.nrel.gov/ncpv/images/ efficiency_chart.jpg. 103 For more on perovskite-based solar cells see, for example, Mitch Jacoby, “Tapping Solar Power with Perovskites: Low cost and impressive performance thrust new solar-cell technology into spotlight,” Chemical and Engineering News, 24 February 2014, pp. 10–16, http://cen.acs.org/articles/92/i8/ Tapping-Solar-Power-Perovskites.html; Kevin Bullis, “A New Solar Material Shows Its Potential,” MIT Technology Review, 10 November 2013, http://www.technologyreview.com/ news/521491/a-new-solar-material-shows-its-potential/; Gary Hodes, “Perovskite-Based Solar Cells,” Science, October 2013, pp. 317–18, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/317. summary; Robert Coontz, “Science’s Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2013,” Science, 19 December 2013, http://news.sciencemag. org/2013/12/sciences-top-10-breakthroughs-2013; Bernie Bulkin, “Perovskites: The Future of Solar Power?” The Guardian, 7 March 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/ perovskites-future-solar-power. 104 SolFocus (United States) failed to find a buyer and shut down in late 2013, from “SolFocus Ceases Trading,” CPV Intelligence Brief, 5-17 September 2013, http://news.pv-insider.com/users/ ksdicks, and from James Montgomery, “CPV Outlook: Demand Doubling, Costs Halved by 2017,” Renewable Energy World, 12 December 2013, http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/ news/article/2013/12/cpv-outlook-demand-doubling-costs- halved-by-2017; Amonix closed its plant in Las Vegas, Nevada, Zenith Solar (Israel) was acquired by Suncore (China), and consolidation and new partnerships all from “Signs of Progress for CPV, But Momentum Needs to be Sustained,” PV Insider, 17 September 2013, http://news.pv-insider.com/users/ritesh-gupta. 105 Meg Cichon, “Soitec to Shutter German CPV Manufacturing, ‘Regroup’ at its San Diego Facility,” Renewable Energy World, 2 August 2013, http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/ article/2013/08/soitec-to-shutter-germany-cpv-manufacturing- regroup-its-san-diego-facility; Soitec, “Soitec Completes Its First Solar Power Plant in California with Modules from its New San Diego Manufacturing Facility,” press release (San Francisco: 10 July 2013), http://www.soitec.com/en/news/press-releases/ soitec-completes-its-first-solar-power-plant-in-california-with- modules-from-its-new-san-diego-manufacturing-facility-1341/; “Alsom and Soitec Create CPV Alliance,” PV News, September 2013, p. 6. 106 “Solar Junction Partners with Amonix to Improve CPV Efficiency,” PV News, April 2013, p. 6. 107 Beyond niche and South Africa from “Signs of Progress for CPV, but Momentum Needs to Be Sustained,” PV Insider, 17 September 2013, http://news.pv-insider.com/users/ritesh-gupta; China from Frank Haugwitz, CPV Developments—More Production CapacitiesPDF Image | About ElectraTherm
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