Satcon Technology Corporation (NASDAQ: SATC) $175M (MarketCap) Stock Gains on Flurry of Headlines

Satcon Technologies provides a suite of utility gradebeen selected by Southern California Edison to supply
power conversion solutions and services forinverters for at least 75 percent of its Solar
commercial and utility scale renewable energyPhotovoltaic Program Project (SPPP). Under the
installations and distributed energy markets in theSPPP, there are plans to install, own and operate up to
United States and internationally. Its renewable energy250 megawatts of solar generating capacity over the
solutions include utility grade inverters for solarnext five years, 75 megawatts of which are in
photovoltaic and fuel cell applications. In 2003, Satconimmediate development. The product to be installed is
launched the world's first single-cabinet PV converted,Satcon's PowerGate Plus 500 kilowatt solution, the
and since then has introduced a host of other moreworld's most widely deployed utility ready solar PV
powerful, more reliable invertors to its wide range ofinverter.
commercial customers. For what was one of theJune 9th – The company announced that they
biggest deals of 2008, the company was chosen byhave been selected by Q-Cells for multiple large scale
General Motors to provide PV invertors for a carsolar PV power plants in Ontario, which when
manufacturing facility in Spain.completed, will be among the largest PV installations in
The company has been releasing press the last fewNorth America. These projects are contracted under
days that has investor's rewarding the stock price.the Renewable Energy Standard Offer Program
Here's a breakdown of all the news.developed and overseen by the Ontario Power
June 8th – The company announced that theAuthority ("OPA") and will connect to local utility PUC
Satcon Solstice system solution is now available inDistribution, Inc. They are scheduled to be operational in
Europe, following the successful launch of the solutionthe third quarter 2010.
in North America in the October of 2009. SatconJune 9th – The company has also introduced its
Solstice delivers fine grained power harvesting andnext generation utility ready solar PV inverter solution,
control with advanced utility ready grid interconnection.Satcon Equinox. With its unparalleled system wide
Its unique design boosts total power production by 5-12intelligence, Edge MPPT performance optimization and
percent over designs using standard inverters, whileindustrial-grade engineering, the Equinox solutions
simultaneously reducing the overall system materialdeliver a best in class efficiency of 98.5% and offer
costs by 20-25 percent.the highest levels of system wide performance, uptime
June 8th – the company announced that it hadand reliability.