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 ...
TSMC Solar, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) wholly-owned subsidiary maker of CIGS thin-film PV modules, will expand its annual production capacity from 40MWp currently to 120MWp in the fourth quarter of 2014, according ...
Tags: TSMC Solar, PV Module
A US anti-dumping investigation is targeting PV modules imported from China. However, because Taiwan crystalline silicon solar cell makers generally are suppliers for China-based PV module makers, the Taiwan Photovoltaic Industry ...
Tags: Anti-Dumping Probe, PV
China produced 26GWp of PV modules in 2013, growing 13% on year. China was the largest producing country for the seventh consecutive year, according to industry sources in Taiwan. Of the output, 16GWp or 61.5% was exported, and Europe was ...
Capital expenditures for equipment suppliers serving the solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing segment are forecast to enter a new upturn phase beginning in 2015. According to Solarbuzz, PV equipment spending could potentially reach US$10 ...
Tags: solar photovoltaic, PV equipment, ingots, wafers, cells, modules
Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell and PV module maker Tainergy Tech will expand its annual production capacity for solar cells from 560MWp currently to 700MWp,and that for PV modules from 100MWp to 200MWp in 2014,according to the ...
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PV demand has been boosting since 4Q13, and EnergyTrend predicts that global PV system installation may reach 42GW in 2014. Although the U.S. court has started the anti-dumping and countervailing investigation towards Taiwanese PV cell ...
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Taiwan-based makers plan to hike quotes for polycrystalline silicon solar cells with energy conversion rates over 17.4% to US$0.41-0.45/W in February 2014 to reflect increases in the cost of solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafers, ...
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Taiwan-based solar-grade polycrystalline silicon ingot and wafer maker Eversol has landed EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) projects for installing ground-mounted PV systems with total capacity of 80MWp in Japan and expects to ...
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Quotes for a solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafer have risen from US$1 in December 2013 to US$1.05 currently, and are expected to rise to US$1.08 in February and further to US$1.10 in March, according to chairman Guo Yan-ting of ...
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Traditional photovoltaic solar cells have an inherent limit on the efficiency at which they can convert sunlight into energy. This limit—based on the bandgap of the material used and known as the Shockley-Queisser limit—is about ...
Tags: Thermophotovoltaic, solar cells, Nature Nanotechnology, low-bandgap
On December 31st, 2013, SolarWorld Industries America Inc. filed an application to Department of Commerce and United States International Trade Commission (USITC), asking the associations to investigate PV cells imported from both Mainland ...
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In December, Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – announced that it is to construct a CIS solar module manufacturing plant on a ...
The Japan and the US markets directly or indirectly accounted for 50% and 30% of total orders received by Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers in 2013, according to industry sources. The total capacity of PV systems ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Lights, Lighting, Electrical, Electronics
After two years of a punishing downturn, the global solar industry is on the rebound, said Ash Sharma, senior research director for solar at IHS. "Worldwide PV installations are set to rise by double digits in 2014, solar manufacturing ...
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