Utilities coming after solar is bad enough, but sometimes we try to go at each other like in this recent trade case. What is really interesting about Solarworld, the main (only?) plaintiff in the case is that while it has a US manufacturing plant and is (was?) a German company, it recently did a debt to equity swap. A major participant in the deal that took a chunk of the bondholders debt out was Qatar Solar Tech. How much? I don’t know but I am guessing Solarworld is much more of a Qatar company than an American one, ponder that over the weekend.
News
- Forbes: Utilities And Greenies Try To Cool Off Grid Disputes
- CleanTechnica: Civil War At Duke Energy?
- VentureBeat: Meet Vivint, the latest company stripped from Google’s results
- GTM: First Solar’s Quiet Reveal of Its TetraSun High-Efficiency Silicon
- USA Today: States in the middle as utilities, solar advocates clash
- Forbes: Solar Investing Grows Up
- CleanTechnica: Northeast Utilities (NU) Opposes Solar To Protect Profits
Opinions
- Tor Valenza: How Zombies Can Teach Us to Guerrilla Market Solar
- Ahmad Chatila: SolarWorld trade victory would devastate US industry
Have a great day!
Yann