With 41,000MW of wind power generation added in 2011, the global total reached 238,000MW by Dec. 31, 2011. […]

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Last week we reported that Samsung was withdrawing from the crystalline solar market, a market to which it had previously pledged billions of dollars of investment. This week we've learned that Hyundai Heavy Industries, another Korean giant with photovoltaic aspirations, is calling it quits, according to an article in the Korea Times. And we've hea […]

In terms of smart grid trends, the United Kingdom ranks high in the areas of raw excitement for vendors. With a goal of installing 47 million meters by 2020, and an open bid for $7.5 billion in communications contracts, companies large and small are looking to be a part of what’s happening in the U.K. Starting in October 2012, there is one more area that sho […]

In an earnings call transcript published today for Encore Wire Corp., McKinney, Texas, at www.seekingalpha.com, Daniel Jones, Encore Wire’s president and CEO, said the company had strong quarterly earnings in a turbulent economy despite the “severe recession currently taking place in the construction industry.” While Jones also said in the call that business […]

Arlington Industries Inc., Scranton, Pa., presented its 2011 sales awards at the recent 2012 NEMRA (National Electrical Manufacturers Representatives Association) conference in San Diego: Gregg Ruttle, Hoyt Northwest Marketing Group LLC, Portland, Ore., received the Inside Sales Award; Wiltrout Sales Inc., Indianapolis, Ind., received the National Sales Achi […]