Strategies Unlimited’s analysts believe that the LED lighting market is growing nicely, though they expect lower LED prices to keep a lid on LED-component growth in the foreseeable future. LAURA PETERS and MAURY WRIGHT report from the ...
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A company called inovateus solar has just issued a white paper called The Good News About Solar:Five Facts You Should Know,which is perfect timing because,although fossil fuels got quite a bit of notice during last night's debate between ...
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When the Chinese energy giant Hanergy decided last week to buy Miasole,a Silicon Valley-based thin-film solar company,at less than a tenth the amount venture capitalists had invested in the firm,it could have been making a savvy move.Though ...
The proposed 47MW park would be ten times larger than ib vogt's 4.7MW solar park at Ebbsfleet.Image credit:ib vogt GmbH. The newly-elected leader of the Green Party,Natalie Bennett,has told Portsmouth News that ib vogt's planned 47MW ...
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Forget cheap shoes.China is leaping up the technology ladder at a rate that has caught its competitors off guard,not least in renewable energy. The pace of the country's progress was on full display last week at an energy conference in ...
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Those who are familiar with my work know that I like it when investment ideas remind me of prior decisions that have worked out well.Corning(GLW)reminds me of other cyclical stocks that have done well once earnings estimates first start to ...
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Australian roofs now have a solar power generating capacity equivalent to half the Snowy Hydro scheme as consumers react to soaring power prices and sinking prices for photovoltaic(PV)panels. First solar farm opens in WA Some 858,000 ...
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The Commerce Department issued its final ruling Wednesday in a long-simmering trade dispute with China,imposing tariffs ranging from about 24 to nearly 36 percent on most solar panels imported from the country. The penalties are somewhat ...
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Loughborough-based SmartGen Ltd has revealed that it was overwhelmed by the UK industry's response to its SmartShield system. SmartShield is a long lasting glass protection suitable for PV modules that is able to increase light ...
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Transphorm raises$35m in Series-E financing LED by Japan's INCJ Transphorm Inc of Goleta,near Santa Barbara,CA,USA(which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules)has announced a$35m Series E financing round led by ...
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South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) NHS Foundation Trust has a huge fleet of ambulances here in the UK. In an attempt to reduce its large fuel bill by as much as £400,000 it is installing 5mm thick solar panels on the vehicle roofs ...
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By the time any new nuclear power station could be built in the UK (2020 or later), the market for its electricity will be disappearing-because of explosive growth in photovoltaics (PV) and because consumers will be able to buy electricity ...
Pioneer PV Solutions,a thin-film microsolar solar company,has launched its operations in California. The company will provide off-the-shelf solar solutions for small off-grid products including solar-powered lamps,parking meters and ...
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Hawaii has seen an ever larger increase in solar electricity production from solar farms and residents. Hawaii electricity comes from its imports of diesel, low sulfur fuel oil (LSFO), and naphtha, but with government incentives, increased ...
ITRI announced its cutting edge roll-to-roll (R2R) process on 100µm flexible glass substrates today at FPD International, an industry trade show, occurring Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2012 in Yokohama, Japan. Drawing inspiration from the R2R ...
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