Over the past three years, solar photovoltaic (PV) installed system prices, module prices, and module production costs have all fallen by more than 50%, while a shakeout of uncompetitive PV cell makers has caused the number of suppliers to ...
Tags: PV Industry, Solar PV
Kingspan Insulated Panels has launched Kingspan Energy, a fully-funded solar energy solution provider making low-carbon energy generation effortless for UK businesses. Kingspan Energy will enable more companies to benefit from the lower ...
Tags: Kingspan Energy, Mineral
TSMC Solar Ltd of Taichung, Taiwan, which was founded in May 2009 as a subsidiary of the world’s biggest silicon wafer foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Inc (TSMC), has agreed for specialty PV distributor Centrosolar ...
Tags: Solar Modules, Electrical
Stion Corp of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes nanostructure-based CIGS (copper indium gallium sulphur-diselenide) thin-film photovoltaic panels, has produced a 23.2% efficiency thin-film cell based on its proprietary tandem junction ...
Tags: Tandem Technology, Electrical
Ever since the Japanese government passed the Act on Special Measures concerning the Procurement of Renewable Energy in July, 2012, the amount of grid-connected installation in Japan continued to increase. A research division of TrendForce, ...
Tags: PV Systems, PV Installation
One part power electronics and one part networking and communications technology, microinverters and DC optimizers (commonly referred to as module-level power electronics, or MLPEs) are playing an increasingly significant role in ...
Tags: renewable energy, Microinverters, DC Power
The 30 largest engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies in the global photovoltaic (PV) industry installed 30% of the world's non-residential PV capacity in 2013, up 5pp from 2012, according to IHS. "We see integrators in ...
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA - which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services - has reported full-year net sales of $3.309bn for ...
Tags: photovoltaic modules, Electrical
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, has set a record for CdTe solar cell conversion ...
Tags: Crystalline Silicon, Solar Cell
Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers originally expected China-based PV module makers to reduce orders due to the impact of a US anti-dumping investigation of Taiwan-based solar cell makers, but instead have seen no decreases ...
Tags: Solar Cell, crystalline silicon
TCL Communication (ALCATEL ONETOUCH and TCL) and Sunpartner Technologies today unveiled a smartphone that can recharge itself by light (Wysips crystal). Seen for the first time at Mobile World Congress 2014, the smartphone demonstrates ...
Tags: Wysips Crystal, TCL, Solar Smartphone, LiFi
ReneSola supplies Isolux Corsan with 31.7 megawatts of Virtus PV modules for a commercial PV project in the Suffolk. According to the terms of the agreement, ReneSola delivered 9.7 MW of Virtus I modules and 22 MW of Virtus II modules to ...
February 17, 2014 The County of Maui and its partners will present a two-day conference on the Valley Isle in March 2014 to explore the challenges and opportunities in our nation's transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. ...
India’s government wants to replace 26 million groundwater pumps for irrigation with more efficient pumps that run on solar power, in an effort to relieve farmers of high costs of diesel fuel. Diesel generators are commonly used when ...
Tags: groundwater pumps, solar power, Diesel generators, irrigation
Laser sales set to grow with recovering economies 10 Feb 2014 Seminar in San Francisco hears that sensing applications will be a key growth driver in the coming years. Lasers on show The global laser industry, strong in many areas ...
Tags: Lasers, 3D printing, Nogee, GDP