At the start of this year, the United States Department of Commerce conducted a preliminary review of the anti-dumping and countervailing (AD/CVD) measures against Chinese photovoltaic (PV) cell imports for 2012 and reduced the overall ...
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Singulus Technologies AG of Kahl am Main, Germany says that it has taken its product family of vacuum coating systems for solar technology to the next development level and introduced and installed inline sputtering system for copper indium ...
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Soitec of Bernin, France has announced a new step in its SmartCell project by raising the record for concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) module solar energy conversion efficiency from 36.7% (announced in July 2014) to 38.9% Previously (last ...
At Intersolar Europe 2015 in Munich, Germany (10-12 June), nano-electronics research center Imec of Leuven, Belgium has announced a thin-film perovskite photovoltaic (PV) module with a solar energy power conversion efficiency of 8% measured ...
Soitec of Bernin, near Grenoble, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers, has announced a definitive agreement to sell its solar system business - including all technology assets and ...
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Global PV demand is expected to rebound in June or early July as China begins a rush to construct new PV systems and power-generating stations in the second half of 2015, according to China-based PV supply chain makers. The US Department ...
The slow recovery of the global PV market continues into the second quarter. Jason Huang, research manager for EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, said the market on the whole is showing positive signs even though prices along the supply ...
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US wholesale energy provider Southern Power, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Company, has acquired a controlling stake in the 32MW Lost Hills-Blackwell Solar Facility in California from cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic ...
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China-based Hanergy Thin Film Power Group Ltd and the Huangpi District People's Government in Wuhan City have entered into an investment cooperation agreement to construct a gallium arsenide (GaAs) thin-film solar cell R&D and manufacturing ...
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China-based solar-grade polysilicon maker Tebian Electric Apparatus had net profit of CNY1.811 billion (US$294 million) for 2014 hiking on year by 31.49%, while fellow maker Daqo New Energy saw operations swing from net loss of US$70.9 ...
First-tier China-based PV makers are planning to establish laboratory-level production lines for N-type monocrystalline silicon solar cells, and if trial production goes smooth, volume production may begin in 2016, according to industry ...
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Some first-tier China-based PV module firms have asked Taiwan solar cell makers to supply products on credit from, and the suppliers are considering whether to accept the requests, according to industry sources. These China-based PV ...
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Solar cell maker Solartech Energy will temporarily suspend one of its 11 production lines in Taiwan and continue operating the other 10 to maintain a local capacity utilization rate at 90%, according to Chinese-language newspaper Economic ...
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Solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) will have its subsidiary maker Sunrise Global Solar Energy expand annual production capacity for PERC (passivated emitter and rear cell) P-type monocrystalline ...
Midsummer AB of Järfälla, Sweden, a supplier of turnkey production lines for manufacturing flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar cells, has received a multi-million dollar order for its ...
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