Comments on: The top solar companies to be worried about in 2012

By: John

John — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:08:35 +0000

What is happening with Satcon? The stock is now just about worthless and still heading down. Are they at the end of their rope and be the next solar company to go bankrupt?

By: alf

alf — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:54:06 +0000

@Ucilia You are proving my point. I read all your articles and you are always searching for the dark cloud.
“the 50% estimated growth from 2010-11, while not trivial, is far slower than what happened from 2009-2010″.
50% growth is freaking amazing and beyond anyone’s expectations, and so the point you choose to make is that it wasn’t as amazing as the previous year.

By: Ucilia Wang

Ucilia Wang — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:57:31 +0000

Alf: I don’t know what makes you think the industry is collapsing by reading our site. You must have missed the many stories about new investments into solar installations and factory manufacturing. In any case, the 50% estimated growth from 2010-11, while not trivial, is far slower than what happened from 2009-2010, when the global market more than doubled. Some of the recent growth came at the expense of companies that posted losses, closed factories and laid off people.

By: Katie Fehrenbacher

Katie Fehrenbacher — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:16:29 +0000

@Albert Harman, This is the last thing we wrote about them, like 8 months ago: http://gigaom.com/cleantech/konarka-still-trying-for-elusive-solar-building-market/

By: Katie Fehrenbacher

Katie Fehrenbacher — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:15:05 +0000

@alf, We cover the growth of solar regularly. This is about the affect of consolidation on the industry.

By: alf

alf — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:06:27 +0000

If this website was the only place I got “solar industry” news then I would infer that the industry is collapsing. In reality, according to the pvtech website, it looks like “Global PV installations for 2011 could have topped 26GW” which would be a 50% increase over 2010, which was a 100% increase over 2009.
Also I noticed that the stock price for “Suntech Power” (on your list) went up 27% today… although I don’t want to draw any conclusions from stock price movement.

By: Albert Hartman

Albert Hartman — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:37:50 +0000

Whatever happened to Konarka?