Germany's VDE Testing and Certification Institute, in conjunction with partner Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany, has issued VDE Quality Tested (QT) Certification to cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film ...
Tags: Solar Energy, Certification
Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and space solar power markets, has entered into a definitive purchase agreement for NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, ...
Tags: Tunable Laser, Transceiver Product
In the 1870s, Englishmen, Maughan invented the first instant water heater. Water heaters come in all types and sizes. There are natural gas, propane, oil, electric, tankless and solar models. They all vary in terms of first cost and ...
Fonterra farmers’ sustainable dairying initiatives are back in the spotlight with the launch of the Co-op’s third Farm Focus series on YouTube. The latest series draws attention to the use of solar energy to power a cowshed ...
Tags: Fonterra, Initiatives, Food
Powertree Services will build build 68 electric vehicle charging stations in San Francisco, US and has selected Panasonic provide engineering, construction and procurement services. The stations are designed to be powered by solar energy ...
Tags: Powertree Services, Stations, Accessories
TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) has extended business operation to EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) services for setting up PV systems and has set up PV systems with total installation capacity of 23.4MWp in Taiwan, ...
Tags: PV Systems, LCD panel
Solar wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) plans to issue new shares to raise paid-in capital by NT$8-10 billion (US$264-330 million) ahead of a move to list its subsidiary GlobaWafers on Taiwan's over-the-counter (OTC) ...
Tags: semiconductor wafer, solar wafers
CVD Equipment Corp of Central Islip, NY, USA (a designer and maker of equipment for developing and manufacturing electronic components, materials and coatings for research and industrial applications) has appointed Dr Steven Aragon to the ...
Tags: CVD Equipment, CVD Materials
Glancy Binkow & Goldberg LLP has filed a class action lawsuit ‘Deerhaven Capital LLC vs Gutierrez et al’ (docketed as 14-cv-00463) in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on behalf of a class ...
Green Energy Technology (GET), the largest Taiwan-based solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer maker, is reportedly talking about cooperation with crystalline silicon solar cell maker Motech Industries to help the latter manage in-house ...
Tags: GET, Production, Lighting
Protex International is strengthening its base in Electronic Chemisty with the acquisition of Mereco Technologies Group Companies Inc., located in West Warwick, Rhode Island. Electronic Chemistry now represents 10% of the activity of Protex ...
Tags: Protex, Technologies, Decoration
Taiwan-based iEnergy has launched own-brand second-generation micro-inverters for use in 245-250W PV modules made of P-type polycrystalline silicon solar cells with energy conversion rates of 19-20%, according to the company. There are ...
Tags: iEnergy, Micro-Inverter
The US Patent Office has issued US Patent No. 8,859,310 to Versatilis LLC of Winooski, VT, USA (a technology and business development firm that focuses on novel materials and processes for electro-optical devices, as well as extending its ...
Tags: US Patent, Semiconductor
XsunX Inc of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, which is developing hybrid copper indium gallium (di)selenide thin-film (CIGS) photovoltaic (TFPV) cell technologies and ‘CIGSolar’ manufacturing processes, has begun to bundle a commercial ...
Tags: XsunX, CIGS Solar Systems
In the presence of the Republic of Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet, the Chilean Senate’s President Isabel Allende and Minister of Energy Máximo Pacheco, cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker ...
Tags: Solar Installs, PV Project