太陽光発電ＰＲ施設愛称を募集 山梨（産経新聞）
県が甲府市下向山町に建設中の「米倉山太陽光発電所」に「ＣＯ２ゼロやまなし」のシンボルとして併設するＰＲ施設の愛称を募集している。施設は太陽光エネルギーや小水力発電、燃料電池などを学ぶことができる。応募締め切りは９月３０日。応募の方法など詳しくは山梨県企業局電気課（電）０５５・２２３・５３８９。下記参照。
https://www.pref.yamanashi.jp/kg-denki/documents/prshisetsu-aishouboshuuannai.pdf
米エネルギー省から５３５百万ドルの融資を受けていた
太陽電池ベンチャーのソリンドラが破産（チャプター１１）
申請しています。
ＣＩＧＳを蛍光灯のような管に巻くタイプで、半導体製造
装置の世界最大手アプライドマテリアルズ副社長のスピン
オフで、ヴァージン航空総帥のブランソンや中東ファンド
のマスダールも投資していましたが、あえなく墜落です。
国家で新エネを支えても、技術開発はそう簡単ではありま
せん。
技術を甘く見るとこうなります。決して中国との価格競争
の問題ではないのです。アホな政策ですね。。。。
でも、財政赤字は日本がファイナンスしますから問題なし
？？？情けない
日経
http://www.nikkei.com/news/headline/article/g=96958A9C9381959FE2E3E2E3878DE2E3E2EBE0E2E3E39790E0E2E2E2
ＷＳＪ
http://jp.wsj.com/IT/node_298887
http://www.nedo.go.jp/koubo/CA3_00725.html?from=nedomail
平成23年度「新エネルギーベンチャー技術革新事業」の採択決定について
新エネＳＢＩＲです。。。
ベンチャーですが立派です。主力は５ｋＷ。
日本の技術は世界最高ですが、世界展開資金は
些少。この辺が一緒になると最強なんすがね。。。。
Smart energy company ClearEdge Power has reported raised $73.5m ahead of a likely initial public offering.
The company has carried out a Series E financing round, with Artis Capita Management, Güssing Renewable Energy, Southern California Gas Company and Kohlberg Ventures all participating.
As a leading producer of distributed generation solutions for light commercial applications, ClearEdge Power is changing the way businesses across the world get their energy, said ClearEdge Power president and CEO Russell Ford. This new investment provides the capital necessary for ClearEdge Power to build on our already strong foundation by entering new markets, advancing our technology and commercialising new products.
Earlier this month, NewNet reported that ClearEdge Power raised $13.5m in equity, bring total funds garnered since its inception up to $35m.
In August 2009, the start-up company raised $15m in a funding round, having previously been backed by Kohlberg Family, Big Basin Partners and Applied Ventures. This funding round came just months after the business welcomed Ford on as CEO.
AUTM幹部やCASTI山本社長が登壇。
関係者には見逃せませんね。
― 2011国際産学官連携シンポジウム in Keio ―
日時： 平成２３年１０月１４日（金） １３：００－１７：００
場所： 慶應義塾大学 三田キャンパス 東館８階ホール
http://www.keio.ac.jp/ja/access/mita.html
テーマ： 技術移転の多様な評価軸
お申し込み、その他詳細につきましては以下のURLをご覧ください。
http://www.rcp.keio.ac.jp/event/20111014_01.html
インテルでもダメですね。でも潰すのはあるいみ当たり前。
Intel, Goldman Sachs-Backed SpectraWatt Files for Bankruptcy
Other News Tuesday at 23:10
SpectraWatt Inc., a closely held solar cell manufacturer backed by units of Intel Corp. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the second solar company to do so this month.
The Hopewell Junction, New York-based company owes creditors $38.7 million and plans to auction almost all of its assets, which it valued at $33.9 million in a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Poughkeepsie, New York.
SpectraWatt was forced to seek protection from creditors because of competition from Chinese rivals and deteriorating prices in the solar cell industry, according to the Aug. 19 filing. Evergreen Solar Inc. cited similar reasons for its Aug. 15 bankruptcy filing.
``United States-based manufacturers are under a great deal of stress because of the emergence of manufacturers in China, who receive considerable government and financial support,'' SpectraWatt's Chief Restructuring Officer and Chief Executive Officer Brad Walker said in the filing. ``This support, coupled with China's inexpensive production costs, have created a competitive advantage for Chinese manufacturers and allowed them to become price leaders within the industry.''
SpectraWatt had a ``noncompetitive production line based in the U.S., without means to reduce that cost,'' Edwin Mok, an analyst for Needham & Co., said in an e-mail. As solar prices fell, the company was ``stuck in a situation where there was nothing else they could do.''
Both SpectraWatt and Evergreen have technology that's ``not competitive, and there was no method to reduce cost to make it competitive with Asian manufacturers,'' he said.
Prices of solar cells dropped by more than a third this year to 81 cents a watt in July, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance's monthly spot survey.
SpectraWatt shut down its Hopewell Junction manufacturing plant in April, dismissing all 117 workers. It relocated its headquarters there in 2009 from Hillsboro, Oregon.
The solar cell maker also said it had received defective manufacturing equipment and silicon wafers from vendors, forcing it to sell finished products at reduced prices that led to losses, according to the filing.
The company has received interest from foreign buyers though hasn't secured a lead bidder for the planned auction because the potential buyers aren't familiar with U.S. bankruptcy policies, it said. SpectraWatt wants to hold the auction Sept. 28, before the market is inundated with equipment from other failing solar companies.
``Within the next three to six months, there is a high likelihood that a significant amount of used solar cell manufacturing equipment and related assets will flood the market and drive down the value of the debtor's assets,'' Walker said in the filing.
SpectraWatt was spun off from Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker, in June 2008 and raised $50 million by selling preferred stock to its former parent and other investors including Goldman's Cogentrix Energy LLC, PCG Clean Energy & Technology Fund LLC and Berlin-based solar panel maker Solon SE, according to court documents.
Evergreen Solar, a rival U.S. solar panel maker, sought bankruptcy protection last week, owing creditors about $485.6 million. Evergreen's convertible noteholders have agreed to buy the company at auction offering to forgive debt owed to them instead of cash.
The case is In re SpectraWatt Inc, 11-37366, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York
