LanzaTech attracts Malaysian investors; GE promotes solar/wind farms, Ceramic sales in Germany, green light for Acciona $400m wind farm
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While you were at the beach …..
The holiday period produced a series of important reports on cleantech in Australia, including how government authorities got it completely wrong on solar, the anti-wind Coalition, how EVs could save the grid, polemics over the CEFC and Tony Abbott’s Gingrich connection.
First Solar sets module efficiency record
Module efficiency gains takes thin film solar closer to price parity
MIXED GREENS: Hungry for solar
Solar takes off in Gulf States as costs better those of fossil fuels; Nashville singer builds a 30MW solar farm; and wind energy cheaper than coal in India.
Solar doubles wind in new investment in 2011
New investment in solar energy technologies jumped to $US136 billion in 2011, nearly twice the total invested in wind energy.