First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe), has acquired Solar Chile, a Santiago-based solar development company in which Fundación Chile was an early ...
Tags: Solar, Solar Chile, photovoltaic power projects, solar irradiance
For the second time the Intercontinental Hotel Beichen in Beijing played host to the Intersolar China Conference, a valuable platform for the Asian solar markets of the future, from December 11-13, 2012. 69 speakers from around the world ...
Tags: China, solar markets, experts, solar industry
New energy is the emerging industry of Suzhou economy. It’s main products are solar equipment and panel. Due to the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation, the export volume drops seriously. Though the export impacted, the solar ...
Tags: Construction Decoration, China, Glass
Developments within the Chinese market formed the central theme of Intersolar China, hosted for the second time by the Intercontinental Hotel Beichen in Beijing from 11-13 December. The conference focused on innovative technologies and ...
Tags: Intersolar, photovoltaics, solar thermal technologies, solar industry
When the solar industry was experiencing a boom before 2010, many firms were attracted to enter the market and began massive investments, causing an oversupply which has seen many firms face financial trouble. In 2011 alone, 40 firms, ...
Tags: solar industry, South Korea, polysilicon, OCI
DECC has decided to reduce support for solar power under the Renewables Obligation from 2 ROCs today to 1.6 ROCs from April 2013 – a reduction of 20%. This is higher than the level of 1.5 ROCs which was initially proposed. The STA ...
Tags: STA, Association News, solar industry news, DECC
Lux Research’s ‘Module Cost Structure Update: Path to Profitability’ report says that the solar industry is reeling from overcapacity and supply outstrips demand by two to one. The industry needs to drive costs lower in ...
The true hurdle of solar technology is being able to produce solar cells efficiently and at low cost. The present world technology doesn’t make solar cell production a bargain, but a new prototype by researchers at Stanford University ...
Tags: solar technology, solar cell, lighting, solar
At the end of October, GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Nashua, NH, USA (a provider of polysilicon production technology as well as sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and other specialty markets) ...
Tags: GT, sapphire furnace, solar, LED
XsunX Inc of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, which is developing hybrid copper indium gallium (di)selenide thin-film (CIGS) photovoltaic (TFPV) cell technologies and ‘CIGSolar’ manufacturing processes, says it recently completed assembly ...
Tags: XsunX, CIGS, hybrid copper indium gallium, solar cell evaporation system
Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) is a common type of contract in the construction industry and is now becoming big business in the solar industry. Under an EPC solar contract, the contractor will handle the design, all ...
According to IHS, the global solar market will achieve double-digit installation growth in 2013, but market revenue will fall to US$75 billion. Industry revenues-measured as system prices multiplied by total gigawatts installed-peaked at ...
Tags: Solar Trade Wars, global solar market, double-digit installation growth
December 12, 2012 - Sandia National Laboratories says it is advancing "viable, low-carbon power" by collaborating on five regional test centres (RTCs) where industry can assess the "performance, reliability and bankability" of large-scale ...
Tags: photovoltaic energy systems, large-scale photovoltaic systems
The weak solar market has been delaying technological improvements for solar firms. Despite the fact that N-type mono-crystalline high efficiency product may achieve a breakthrough that P-type mono- and multi-crystalline solar product ...
Tags: solar market, solar firms, new technologies
Japan-based solar cell maker Kaneka reportedly plans to move technology for heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer (HIT) solar cells to Taiwan, helping Taiwan-based firms to begin mass production. Kaneka is said to be discussing ...
Tags: HIT, solar cells, Kaneka, NSP