The US Department of Energy's (DoE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in collaboration with Washington State University (WSU) and the University of Tennessee, has improved the maximum voltage available from a cadmium telluride ...
Tags: Solar Cells, vacuum-seal
McLaren has revealed details 570GT, the third model in the Sports Series. This sports car will be unveiled at the 86th Geneva International Motor Show in March. The company says that the 570GT has been designed for day-to-day use and ...
UAE based food producer National Food Product Company (NFPC) has begun construction of a new food manufacturing facility in Kizad. NFPC is considered as one of the largest food producers in the UAE and owns brands such as Oasis, Blu, ...
Tags: National Food Product, NFPC brands
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA says that in early February it surpassed 6GWDC of capacity installed by its Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) group. The firm is ...
Tags: PV Capacity, solar generation
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has again raised its world record for cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) research cell conversion efficiency, from 21.5% (reported in February 2015) to 22.1%, as certified at the Technology and ...
Tags: PV Cell, thin film PV
Tokyo-based Solar Frontier says that its CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar panels have been installed by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd (K Line, one of Japan's largest shipping companies) on its newest ...
Tags: PV Panels, solar panels
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the USA has been developing a hybrid technique to create III-nitride tunnel junctions (TJs) using a combination of metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) and molecular beam epitaxy ...
Tags: Gallium Nitride Tunnel, Hybrid
k-Space Associates Inc of Dexter, MI, USA (which supplies thin-film metrology tools for the semiconductor, compound semiconductor and solar markets) has launched the kSA Emissometer. The ex-situ tool provides metal-organic chemical vapor ...
Tags: k-Space, Emissometer, semiconductor
Today, Pfister Energy announced the availability of ChargePoint electric vehicle (EV) charging stations to clientele and partners, enabling drivers to plug in wherever they go. ChargePoint operates the world's largest and most open EV ...
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Due to a shortage in global supply of silver powder arising from an accident at Japan-based Dowa Hightech's factory in early January 2016, some PV silver paste maker have increased quotes by about 10% and others may follow suit after the ...
Tags: silver powder, solar cell
On the 30th December 2015, GRENERGY formalized the sale of its two last solar photovoltaic plants in Spain, both producing under decree 9/2013 of July 12 which establishes the new remuneration system for renewable energy replacing decrees ...
Tags: PV Projects, Sloar Cell
A slew of factors is persuading companies to expand abroad to access the global market Rising costs and steep anti-dumping duties in the United States and Europe, coupled with a desire to expand overseas, are increasingly driving major ...
Tags: Solar Panel, Solar Energy Products
China, to boost the PV industry under the 13th Five-year National Development Plan, has set a target installation capacity of 3.0GWp for model PV power stations to be set up in 2016, according to the government National Energy ...
Tags: PV Industry, PV Power Stations
The general outlook for the 2016 PV market has become more certain as China, the U.S. and the U.K. finalize their respective subsidy policies. “China plans to connect the country’s PV power plants onto the grid before the middle ...
Tags: PV market, multi-Si wafers
First-tier China-based PV module makers, viewing that cost for crystalline silicon solar cells has risen but they are unable to hike PV module prices, plan to reduce orders released to Taiwan- and China-based solar cell makers, according to ...
Tags: PV Module, Solar Cells