Jul 14 2008

Intersolar Begins a Flurry of Solar Announcements

Posted by: Keely Wachs

Today marks the beginning of Intersolar North America 2008 - the nation's largest trade event serving the complete solar energy supply chain. 

And with it, of course, a ton of major solar announcements to leverage the excitement around the event.  Below is a list of some announcements leading up to and during today's conference.

• Concentrated photovoltaic provider, GreenVolts, today announced that it is going to raise a series B funding round of a little less than $100 million.
• Ausra, a utility-scale solar technology provider and developer, announced that it was looking into selling its solar powered steam for oil recovery. 
• First Solar announced that it will build California's first thin-film photovoltaic solar power plant. 
• As reported by NEXT100's Len Anderson, SunPower announced that it was going to build a 25 megawatt photovoltaic solar plant, the nation's largest, for Florida Power and Light.

Stay tuned.  With three more days of Intersolar, there will no doubt be more to come.

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