First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has raised its world record for cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) total area module efficiency from 14.4% (set in January 2012) to 16.1%, as confirmed in tests by the US Department of Energy's ...
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Sol Voltaics AB of Ideon Science Park, Lund, Sweden has unveiled SolInk, a nanomaterial that promises to boost the efficiency of crystalline silicon or thin-film solar modules by up to 25%, leading to solar power plants and rooftop solar ...
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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has acquired the 150MWAC Solar Gen 2 power project from an affiliate of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Energy Power Partners and a third equity partner ...
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MiaSolé of Santa Clara, CA, USA, a manufacturer of copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic panels, and KSK Energy Ventures of India, a power development and generation company, have announced the commissioning ...
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Conergy, Europe’s biggest supplier of solar modules to debt-financed projects*, announced today the supply of its “P-Series” modules for four UK solar farms with a combined power output of 15.3 megawatts (MW). The ...
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Manz AG of Reutlingen, Germany, which supplies integrated production lines for crystalline silicon solar cells and thin-film solar modules (as well as lines flat-panel displays), says it is demonstrating the standards of its CIGSfab ...
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Suntech Power's epic plunge from solar module dominance to bankruptcy comes as the result of misplaced investments, a misguided pricing strategy, anti-dumping action in the US and a potential new willingness by the China government and ...
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Sunmodule Protect solar panel guarantees exceptional energy yield over extended service life - SolarWorld, the largest U.S. solar manufacturer for more than 35 years, today introduced its Sunmodule Protect glass-glass solar panel. No ...
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Sunner Solar, a Taiwan-based a-Si (amorphous silicon) thin-film solar module firm, on March 18 announced the merger with Anneberg, a Taiwan-based cosmetics producer, into a new company named Xantia, with Sunner to acquire financial support ...
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From classic traditional styles to brand-new trends, Piel S.A. is one of the leading integrated companies in the Spanish textile sector producing household textiles and upholstery covers for homes designed totally to individual tastes. The ...
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Suntech Power Holdings, a China-based solar module giant, said on March 11, 2013, that it has signed a forbearance agreement with the holders of more than 60% of the firm's 3% convertible notes. The forbearance agreement between Suntech and ...
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Taiwan-based solar firms have been seeing rising orders in February and March. Some firms believe the changes are due to the EU's anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation against China-based firms which has been pushing customers to ...
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Microsoft is building a data center next to a Wyoming landfill in order to use its methane gas to power the facility. Apple now uses a massive 100-acre solar energy farm to power its Maiden, N.C., data center. And Google has placed data ...
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Due to the expectation that Japan will lower its solar feed-in-tariff (FIT) in April and the US punitive tariffs' impacts on China-made solar products, some tier-one Taiwan-based solar cell makers have seen orders rising. The Japan solar ...
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Alta Devices of Sunnyvale, CA, USA says that the first implementation of its new-generation dual-junction solar cell technology (augmenting its single-junction technology) has set an energy conversion efficiency record of 30.8% for ...
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