LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany, which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications, says that its spectroscopic photoluminescence (PL) system PearL has been ...
Tags: CIGS Spectroscopic photoluminescence, Electrical, Electronics
Trina Solar Limited has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Anesco to supply modules with a total generation capacity of 50MW for use in projects across the UK in Q3 and Q4 2013. This a continuation of a long-standing ...
Tags: Solar, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
TGE Group has announced the launch of a new solar monitoring package which will enable customers to get the most out of their solar PV installation. As one of the UK's leading solar PV specialists, TGE Group's new service will ensure ...
Tags: Solar PV, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Shunfeng Photovoltaic International, a China-based maker of solar-grade crystalline silicon wafers, cells and PV modules, has reportedly obtained permission from China's authorities to acquire Suntech Power (Wuxi), the flagship subsidiary ...
The next edition of the MADE IN FRANCE trade show will take place 9–10 April 2014 in Paris’s newest venue, the Carreau du Temple, in the heart of the third arrondissement’s chic Haut-Marais district. Located in an area ...
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe), has completed and handed over a 13MWDC photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The facility, ...
Tags: Solar Power Plant, First Solar Inc
Taiwan-based PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials on October 25 began construction of a ground-mounted PV power-generating station with an annual capacity of 17MWp in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, with completion ...
Tags: Solar Materials, PV Power Plant
Taiwan-based Inventec Group aims to increase revenues from PV business operations to NT$15 billion (US$517 million) in 2014, hiking 50% on year, according to group president Yeh Kuo-I. Inventec Solar Energy and Inventec Energy, two ...
Tags: PV Business, Inventec
The production of multicrystalline-silicon (c-Si) solar photovoltaic (PV) modules is set to dominate PV manufacturing during 2014, with p-type multi c-Si technology accounting for 62% of all modules produced, according to Solarbuzz. Solar ...
Tags: Solar PV Industry, Silicon Modules
The main duty is slurry circulation and regeneration that is used in the process of cutting wafers. The high-purity silicon, melted into blocks, is prepared in stacks, from which, in turn, very thin discs (wafers) are cut with the help of ...
Tags: Pump, Processing Machinery
Green Energy Technology (GET), in view of tight supply of solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafers arising from increasing demand in China, Japan and emerging markets, aims to increase ASPs by 3-5% in the fourth quarter of 2013, according ...
Tags: Silicon Wafer, Solar-Grade
Sunpartner Technologies and 3M have announced an agreement to collaborate in product development and technical solutions. The two companies are developing a sustainable wireless transparent micro component that will charge devices while ...
According to EnergyTrend, demand for PV self-consumption continues to increase in Europe due to decreased feed in tariffs and increased electricity price and surcharge fees for grid-connection. Moreover, the installation area of roof-top ...
Tags: PV Makers, Monocrystalline Market
Global markets boasted 51,000MW of wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation capacity installed in 2012, and while some variable generation markets may slow or stall, there is no doubt that wind and solar markets will continue to ...
Thin-film processing equipment maker AVACO Co Ltd of Daegu, South Korea, which specializes in sputtering (PVD) vacuum deposition equipment (in-line, cluster, and roll to roll), atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment, back-end-of-line ...
Tags: PV CIGSSe, Electrical, Electronics