Commentary:China government needs to create projects with sufficient IRRs to save solar industry Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Tuesday 19 June 2012]Some China-based solar firms have been falling into bankruptcies since the ...
Tags: China, government, polysilicon
Energy hungry markets are the new potential markets for the solar industry.China's solar market is being spurred by rising energy demand due to the rapid economic developments.Now,India and Japan(due to the March 11 earthquake in 2011)are ...
Tags: Japan, India, Solar Energy, Energy Shortages, PV
Limited funds and lack of capacity expansion plans plague solar equipment sector Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Monday 18 June 2012] On June 13,the world's second largest solar equipment firm,Germany-based Centrotherm,issued a ...
Tags: Applied Materials, Centrotherm, Tokyo Electron, solar equipment
First Solar Inc of Tempe,AZ,USA,which makes thin-film photovoltaic(PV)modules based on cadmium telluride(CdTe)as well as providing engineering,procurement&construction(EPC)services,says that,as part of the Australian Government's Solar ...
Tags: FirstSolar, CdTe, Energy, Program
The US Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium(PVMC)–an industry-led partnership between international semiconductor manufacturers'research consortium SEMATECH of Albany,NY,USA and the College of Nanoscale Science and ...
Tags: CIGS, PV Roadmap, Solar, Energy
Countries in Europe have been deducting solar incentives to try to control installations.Germany seeks to limit new installations to 2.5-3.5GW per year while Italy's aim is 1-2GW annually.The UK,which recently postponed incentive cuts to ...
Demand for solar cells with higher conversion efficiency has been rising causing various types of technologies to be taken notice by the industry.The solar industry continues to strive for highest returns with lowest production costs and ...
Taiwan solar firms have been looking to recruit new staff for the past two quarters due to increasing orders.In addition,the solar industry in Greater China has been adding workers with non-engineering backgrounds such as finance and ...
Tags: Solar firms, Solartech, GET, Gigastorage, SAS, solar cell, Taiwan
Investors burned as Konarka enters liquidation 07 Jun 2012 Organic PV company demonstrates that$200?million and a Nobel prize are no guarantee of commercial success. Roll-to-roll production Konarka Technologies,the heavily financed ...
Tags: Konarka, enter liquidation, Organic PV company, the US Bankruptcy Court
Hanergy to buy CIGS PV manufacturer Solibro 06 Jun 2012 Chinese renewable energy company to acquire the industry-leading thin-film PV unit belonging to embattled Q-Cells. Solibro's"Q.SMART"CIGS modules Q-Cells,the major German ...
Tags: Hanergy, Q-Cells, CIGS PV manufacturer, Solibro
China firms plan to acquire Europe-based solar peers As solar firms in Europe suffer financial losses due to lack of competitiveness against China-based solar firms,according to a June 3 article by The Financial Times,China-based energy ...
Tags: China-based solar firms, financial losses, Europe, LDK
Digitimes Research:US PV inverter sector thrives Sophia Chen,DIGITIMES Research,Taipei[Thursday 31 May 2012]Compared to the solar supply chain in other countries,the US solar industry has been thriving in sectors such as ...
Tags: Solar, Energy, US PV Inverter Industry
Dockweiler Chemicals GmbH of Marburg,Germany,which supplies highly purified,liquid metal-organic(MO)compounds for chemical vapour deposition(CVD)applications,says that it is marketing its international full-service solutions with immediate ...
Tags: MO Precursors, silicon, semiconductor, solar
Many China-based solar firms facing financial troubles As many China-based makers of polysilicon,solar wafers and cells have faced financial difficulties,a financial crisis may lead to some of them following the case of LDK ...
Tags: China-Based Solar Firms, LDK Solar, solar wafers, financial difficulties
David Seeger,President of JMC Steel Group,highlights why he thinks the future is bright for the US energy pipe market. David Seeger began his career in 1979 with UNR-Leavitt in the Sales&Marketing group,then moved to Welded Tube Company ...
Tags: JMC Steel, energy pipe, US