Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton,CO,USA,which manufactures lightweight thin-film photovoltaic modules based on copper indium gallium diselenide(CIGS)using flexible substrate materials,says that the underwritten public offering of ...
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Taiwan-based solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafer maker Green Energy Technology(GET),in view of continual decreases in solar wafer prices,has adjusted its strategy by selecting orders for high-efficiency solar wafers at higher prices ...
Tags: GET, solar wafer, Taiwan, PV, anti-dumping
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services, and Sir Ratan Tata Trust plan to ...
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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The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) subsidiary of SolarWorld AG (Bonn, Germany) has begun construction on a series of solar photovoltaic (PV) projects totaling 25 MW in California's Mojave Desert. The company plans to ...
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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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First Solar Inc of Tempe,AZ,USA,which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic(PV)modules based on cadmium telluride(CdTe)as well as providing engineering,procurement and construction(EPC)services,has signed power purchase agreements with ...
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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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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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Centrosolar Glas GmbH&Co.KG has developed a particularly thin solar glass for photovoltaic modules.With solar glasses that are only 2.3 mm or 2.6 mm thick Centrosolar Glas has transferred another innovation in the area of cover glasses for ...
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CentroSolar Glas GmbH & Co. KG has developed a particularly thin solar glass for photovoltaic (PV) modules. With solar glass that is only 2.3 millimetres (mm) or 2.6mm thick, CentroSolar Glas has transferred into series production this ...
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Graphic:Current density versus voltage for CZTS PV cell. In partnership with Tokyo-based Solar Frontier(the world's largest manufacturer of copper indium selenium thin-film photovoltaic solar modules),Tokyo Ohka Kogyo(TOK)and DelSolar(a ...
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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 ...
Tags: Building-integrated PV, BIPV market, PowerFilm, Solar
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 ...