The China government, viewing that total PV system installations in the country in 2014 are expected to be significantly short of target, is likely to extend the applicability of 2014 feed-in tariff rates to February 2015 to boost ...
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British agribusiness Sundrop Farms has secured $100m in investment from private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co ( KKR ) to ramp up vegetable production. The investment will be used in the expansion of Sundrop Farms' greenhouse ...
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Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA, which manufactures silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) wafers and devices, says that EDN (Electronic Design News) has named its C2M0025120D 1200V, 25mΩ SiC MOSFET as one of the ‘Hot 100 ...
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Boeing subsidiary Spectrolab Inc of Sylmar, CA, USA, which manufactures multi-junction solar cells and panels for concentrated photovoltaic and spacecraft power systems, says it is the first company to produce 4 million gallium arsenide ...
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Optical inspection is a method of inspection on defects in targets under test by comparing images of targets under test obtained through optical imaging (after processed and analyzed with specific processing algorithm) with images of ...
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Bernin-based Soitec (which makes engineered substrates and CPV systems) and Grenoble-based micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of France, together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE of Freiburg, Germany, have ...
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Crystalline-silicon solar cell maker Gintech Energy has said it has stopped using front-side PV silver paste produced by Giga Solar Materials to avoid potential legal disputes. The Taiwan-based cell maker said the decision was made in ...
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Neo Solar Power on December 1 announced that it has obtained orders for 400MWp of solar cells from Canadian Solar, a Canada-based PV module and PV system maker, for delivery in 2015. Neo Solar became a solar cell supplier for Canadian ...
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The American apparel retail company Tommy Hilfiger has joined hands with the New York-based solar structure designer and manufacture Pvilion to create a Solar Powered Jacket for the 2014 holiday season. The two limited-edition woolen ...
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Tokyo-based Showa Shell Sekiyu subsidiary Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has completed installation of its CIS solar modules at a Japanese ...
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As mainstream PV power generation is expected to shift from ground-mounted stations to rooftop systems in Europe, the US, Japan and China in 2015, and solar cells used in rooftop PV systems require high energy conversion rates, global ...
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STMicroelectronics of Geneva, Switzerland has unveiled new automotive-qualified silicon carbide (SiC) diodes for on-board battery chargers (OBCs) in electric vehicles such as plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) that demand high power-handing capability ...
Tags: on-Board Battery Chargers, 650V SiC Diodes, Electrical
The Renault-Nissan Alliance has sold its 200,000th electric vehicle and has a leading 58% market share for zero-emission cars. Together, Renault and Nissan EVs have driven approximately 4 billion zero-emission kilometers - enough to ...
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Worldwide Grow Lights for Agriculture markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the food supply for the world starts to adopt automated process. Grow lights have become more sophisticated and less expensive to run as solar and ...
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Midsummer AB of Jarfalla, Sweden, a supplier of production lines for manufacturing flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar cells, has halved the thickness of its CIGS layer, to 800nm (less than ...
Tags: CIGS Layer Thickness, Electrical