PV Tech - News:
The European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) released its SET for 2020 study and concluded that the thin-film industry is ready for the 12% target that EPIA has set. The study showed how PV has the potential to become a conventional power source in Europe by 2020. The paradigm-shift scenario, the study’s most progr (Read More)
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DuPont Apollo, a subsidiary of DuPont, has opened its silicon based thin-film PV module manufacturing facility. The 538,000-square-foot facility will have an annual capacity of up to 50MW with a thin-film-on-glass photovoltaic module production line. Full-scale commercial production is targeted for the first-quarter 2010. (Read More)
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Sino-American Silicon Products told Reuters.com that it expects its shipments to rise around 30% in 2010 as it sees that global market for solar power improving. Sino-American president Doris Hsu, told Reuters that the company is looking to raise cash by issuing shares and will see an increase in profit next year due to a h (Read More)
VentureBeat:
In order for a conference to be a catalyst for change, it needs to have people asking the right questions. GreenBeat 2009 has recruited a crack team of moderators to execute this task — including two of the most respected analysts speaking and writing about the emerging Super Grid.Before we introduce them and the other mode (Read More)
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GreenBeat 2009, the seminal executive conference on the Smart Grid, is just around the corner on Nov. 18-19. And one of the key pieces of the event — perhaps the one we’re most excited about — is the Innovation Competition, a chance for startups and big companies alike to go head-to-head showcasing their boldest, most disru (Read More)
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Owens Corning and SunEdison announced that this past September, the two companies completed the activation of a 440kW roof-mount photovoltaic solar system at Owens Kearny, New Jersey facility. The activation took place just one day before SunEdison was awarded the first energy stimulus grant in the solar industry, which cam (Read More)
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An 18-acre solar garden has been dedicated adjacent to Mars Chocolate's North America headquarters in Hackettstown, NJ. The 2.15MW (DC) power plant--which is comprised of more than 28,000 ground-mounted First Solar thin-film PV modules--is said to be the largest solar energy facility installed in New Jersey by a food manufa (Read More)
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China Solar Power has bought ThinSilicon, a developer of thin-film manufacturing process technology based in Mountain View, CA. The amorphous/micromorph-silicon TFPV company, which recently began ramping commercial operations at its Ulvac-equipped 32MW manufacturing plant in Yantai, believes the acquisition of the U.S. firm (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Applied Materials has gobbled up all of the assets of Advent Solar, a photovoltaic maker with patented module assembly processes said to be more streamlined and efficient. The deal is yet another example of Applied Materials’ sprint to define itself as a formidable force in the solar industry.The Sunnyvale, Calif. chip equi (Read More)
PV Tech - News:
Solar Power International's 2009 conference marks the sixth time the business-to-business solar energy conference and exposition has broken attendance records.Nine hundred and twenty nine companies were featured on the exhibit floor, encouraging the attendance of 24,000 industry professionals, some 17,500 more professio (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Maybe taking a cue from 3M’s Light Pipe, researchers at Georgia Tech say they can now directly channel solar energy into light bulbs using nanostructures built onto fiber optic cables.The nanometer scale-wires greatly increase light-interactive surface area. The cables are also coated in a dye that increases their solar rea (Read More)
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Signet Solar and Tejados Fotovoltaica de Industriales Group have signed a definitive module supply agreement for Signet to supply to the Spanish EPC company TIF a minimum of 10MW of single-junction amorphous-silicon thin-film PV modules for shipments before the end of June 2010. The deal also calls for a continued panel sup (Read More)
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Morocco is going to be the next country to undertake an ambitious solar project. Theirs is slated to be worth $9 billion and is anticipated to produce 38% of the country’s installed power generation by 2020. According to Reuters.com, Energy Minister Amina Benkhadra announced that the project will have five solar power gener (Read More)
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The startup amorphous-silicon thin-film maker, backed by Abu Dhabi, plans to ship panels with two layers of amorphous silicon next year. (Read More)
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Solar cell manufacturer Neo Solar Power has begun volume manufacturing of what it is calling the ‘Perfect Cell’ – a monocrystalline silicon cell that yields a conversion efficiency of 17.8%. A Digitimes story reported the start of the volume production, which will see 60 of these Perfect Cells formed into a module that is t (Read More)