Two key figures behind the emergence of concentrator photovoltaics(CPV)as a viable energy technology have won a share of the 2012 German Environmental Award. Worth€500,000,the award is presented each year by the Deutsche ...
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Emcore Corp of Albuquerque,NM,USA,which makes components,subsystems and systems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets,has been awarded a solar panel manufacturing contract by Orbital Sciences Corp for the spacecraft it is making for ...
Tags: Emcore, Orbital Sciences, NASA, ICESat-2 Spacecraft, solar panel
World record organic solar cell efficiency is the claim of joint research between Belgian lab IMEC and Brussels-based chemicals firm Solvay. 5.5%is the actual claim,from a complete solar module based on an inverted bulk heterojunction ...
PV Book-to-bill ratio of just 0.33 measured in second quarter of 2012,with SEMI seeing no near-term recovery. Heading south:the global PV equipment market The market for photovoltaics manufacturing equipment continued to decline in ...
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Semprius CPV module factory ready to roll 18 Sep 2012 Site in Henderson,North Carolina,will reach production run-rate of 6 MW by the middle of next year. Micro-transfer printing Semprius,the developer of high-efficiency concentrated ...
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Smit Ovens of Eindhoven,The Netherlands has announced the installation of 10 in-line production systems for copper indium gallium diselenide(CIGS)applications at five customers worldwide.The systems cover selenium deposition and/or ...
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Glen Allen Virginia:Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has begun shipping its latest report on the building-integrated photovoltaics(BIPV)market titled,"BIPV Wall Markets–2012."This report quantifies the potential for wall-attached ...
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Plug pulled on concentrated PV developer GreenVolts 13 Sep 2012 Californian company suspends operations with immediate effect,adding to wider CPV concerns. CPV,GreenVolts-style GreenVolts,the Fremont,California,start-up that has been ...
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The US witnessed a major increase in deployments of large-scale solar photovoltaics in the second quarter of 2012, according to a new report. Produced by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) industry group awhich opposed the ...
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Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton,CO,USA,which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on copper indium gallium diselenide(CIGS)using flexible substrate materials,is collaborating with Silent Falcon UAS Technologies and ...
Anti-dumping duties could be imposed on Chinese solar imports to Europe by the middle of next year. Panel production in Freiburg The European Commission(EC)has launched an anti-dumping investigation into imports of solar panels,cells ...
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The Intersolar South America Summit made its debut in São Paulo,Brazil,on August 15,2012.The conference,which ran in parallel to the 14 th Electrical Installations Exhibition&Conference at the Expo Center Norte,met with a ...
Korean semiconductor and electronics giant buys 3%stake in the Dutch lithography company,joining Intel and TSMC Samsung has followed its fellow chipmakers Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ...
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Building-integrated PV ready to'come of age'22 Aug 2012 Maturing technologies and partnerships between solar and construction companies will prompt 4.6GW of installations by 2017. A new market report from the analyst company Pike ...
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PV puts utilities and construction ‘on collision course’ 16 Aug 2012 Achieving widespread grid parity with solar electricity may set up a titanic clash between the two industry sectors. PV panel The falling cost of ...