PV demand has been boosting since 4Q13, and EnergyTrend predicts that global PV system installation may reach 42GW in 2014. Although the U.S. court has started the anti-dumping and countervailing investigation towards Taiwanese PV cell ...
Tags: High-Efficiency Product, PV Demand
Building robots is hard. Seriously hard. Not only do you have to construct them physically, but even after you've got them all wired up with motors and sensors and batteries and whatnot, they won't actually DO anything until you've spent ...
Tags: MOSS, Building Robots, MIT, Scratch
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic modules First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has begun construction of Australia’s largest utility-scale solar project, a 250 hectare solar plant in Nyngan, New South Wales (NSW). Less ...
Tags: solar project, energy mix
By Julie Thelen Youth can learn animal care and quality assurance practices about beef, dairy, horses and swine without leaving their home! Although the cold temperatures are keeping youth inside, it is the perfect time to encourage ...
Tags: PQA, Beef Cattle, food safety, assurance practices
Taiwan-based makers plan to hike quotes for polycrystalline silicon solar cells with energy conversion rates over 17.4% to US$0.41-0.45/W in February 2014 to reflect increases in the cost of solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafers, ...
Tags: Solar Cell, PV Module
Taiwan-based solar-grade polycrystalline silicon ingot and wafer maker Eversol has landed EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) projects for installing ground-mounted PV systems with total capacity of 80MWp in Japan and expects to ...
Tags: polycrystalline, solar-grade
Quotes for a solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafer have risen from US$1 in December 2013 to US$1.05 currently, and are expected to rise to US$1.08 in February and further to US$1.10 in March, according to chairman Guo Yan-ting of ...
Tags: Solar-Grade, Silicon Wafers
Japanese automaker Nissan Motor has partnered with FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx, to test its new Nissan e-NV200, a 100% electric compact cargo vehicle, under real world conditions in Washington, DC. Nissan e-NV200 is the second ...
Tags: Nissan, FedEx, Electric Cargo Vehicle
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 begun construction on Phase I of the Barilla ...
China was the largest solar market in the world in 2013, besting a hotly contested field that included Japan, the US and Germany, and China-based manufacturer Yingli Green Energy was also the globe's foremost supplier of solar modules for ...
Tags: Solar Markets, Strong Footprint
Traditional photovoltaic solar cells have an inherent limit on the efficiency at which they can convert sunlight into energy. This limit—based on the bandgap of the material used and known as the Shockley-Queisser limit—is about ...
Tags: Thermophotovoltaic, solar cells, Nature Nanotechnology, low-bandgap
Demand from China, Japan, and USA will represent about 50% of the total worldwide market share in 2014. Due to the recovery of the European market and the rise of the emerging markets, supply and demand in the PV industry will be able to ...
Tags: PV Energy, Solar Cell
MIT Media Lab alumna and entrepreneur Ayah Bdeir SM '06 wants to help all people worldwide, tech savvy or not, understand and build creatively with electronics. It's the ambitious mission powering her fast-growing startup littleBits, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
On December 31st, 2013, SolarWorld Industries America Inc. filed an application to Department of Commerce and United States International Trade Commission (USITC), asking the associations to investigate PV cells imported from both Mainland ...
Tags: PV Industry, Anti-Dumping
Cannon Technologies, the award-winning international leader in innovative containment and 19” cabinet systems, has announced a landmark distribution agreement with Polyrack Tech-Group, the leading German manufacturer of subracks, ...
Tags: Cannon Technologies, Polyrack