Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules that it integrates into its EnerPlex series of consumer products, has debuted the latest ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
China's Ministry of Finance announced on Sunday that it will offer tax breaks to manufacturers of solar power products, in the country's latest effort to encourage the use of the green energy. From Oct. 1, 2013 to Dec. 31, 2015, vendors ...
Tags: Solar Power Products, PV Products
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, says that construction has started on ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, has acquired the 250MWAC photovoltaic Moapa Solar ...
Tags: Solar Project, Electronics
After years of oversupply, the supply and demand for solar devices is returning to a state of balance. Because of this, IMS Research is reiterating its forecast that global capital spending by producers of photovoltaic (PV) modules, cells, ...
Analyst: existing solar tech to miss 'SunShot' goal 25 Sep 2013 Lux Research says that large corporations must partner with academia to innovate. PV adoption roadmap through 2030 The US Department of Energy's ambitious "SunShot" ...
China has this week ordered 58 companies, ranging from steel, coke and cement producers, to cut excess production capacity by the end of the year, in the latest attempt to ease overcapacity in bloated sectors. This is the third batch of ...
Tags: Overcapacity, Metallurgy
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany, concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) system maker Soitec of Bernin, France, micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti in Grenoble, France and the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin ...
Tags: Fraunhofer ISE Leti Soitec CPV Helmholtz, Electrical, Electronics
Currently the smallest part of the global solar energy storage business, the commercial segment, is projected to expand by a factor of 700 in the coming years and become the largest market segment in 2017, according to IMS Research. ...
Tags: Solar Energy, Lighting
Martifer Solar, a subsidiary of Martifer SGPS, is developing 50 MW of photovoltaic plants in the United Kingdom. The company intends to ensure the sale of the ready-to-build projects during the licensing process, which is expected to be ...
BISOL group has introduced a new range of colour combinations of BISOL Spectrum PV modules for listed buildings and conservation areas. To-date we have witnessed an admirable uptake of photovoltaics on residential and commercial ...
Tags: PV Modules, Construction, Energy
Construction has now started on one of the UK's largest (32MWp )solar farms at the site of a former World War II airfield in Suffolk. Lark Energy developed the project, working closely with landowner, Navigator Land LLP. The solar farm ...
Tags: Solar Farm, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Viridian Solar announces the launch of a new range of higher power Clearline PV photovoltaic solar panels. The use of higher performance cells has improved the power output and for the largest panel format (the PV30 at 3 square metres) this ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, solar
Tokyo-based Toshiba Corp has expanded its family of 650V silicon carbide (SiC) Schottky barrier diodes (SBD) with the addition of a 10A product to its existing line-up of 6A, 8A and 12A products (which operate with a forward voltage of 1.7V ...
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Concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar system maker Soitec of Bernin, France has signed a contract with the US Department of Defense's Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) for a 1MWAC solar project at Fort Irwin, ...
Tags: Soitec CPV, Electrical, Electronics, solar