As we become more of an evergreen technology company, it is important that we are pruning the underlying technology capabilities that must be phased out and replaced with something new.
Over the last year, the shares of Evergreen Solar, DayStar Technologies, Energy Conversion Devices and Spire -- all small domestic companies that make equipment for converting solar power into electricity -- have more than doubled in price.
BEIJING — Aided by at least $43 million in assistance from the government of Massachusetts and an innovative solar energy technology, Evergreen Solar emerged in the last three years as the third-largest maker of solar panels in the United States.
He then took these two straightforward, if conflicting, impulses — romantic evergreen youth and futurist technology — and combined them, crossing divides of tailoring and construction, while leaving an impression of a single silhouette or line.
The cities quickest to emerge from the recession benefit from evergreen industries like government, defense, education and technology–sectors that will always provide work, even in a national slump.
Comparatively small but equally ambitious– Evergreen Solar has its own proprietary manufacturing technology for flexible solar panels, which it calls StringRibbon, and its own desired market niche, competing with Kyocera, among others, to deliver reliable power in remote locations.
Solyndra and Evergreen in particular suffered because they pursued unusual technologies whose competitiveness depended on their using less polysilicon, the main material for solar panels.
That skill is evergreen and will not change however much the technology of the world around us does.
CEO Neil Vogel said that the company is intent on not crossing the line into technology news, but rather offering more evergreen, informational content.
Massachusetts-based Evergreen Solar, for example, has a promising wafer-making technology and solid orders on its book.
