US-based First Solar delivered on expectations in 2013 to become the leading engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company in the global photovoltaic (PV) industry, even though it is likely to be surpassed in 2014 by China-based ...
SNEC (2014) International Photovoltaic Power Generation Conference & Exhibition [SNEC PV POWER EXPO] will be held in Shanghai, China, on May 20 - 22, 2014. It was initiated by Chinese Renewable Energy Society (CRES), Chinese ...
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Solar photovoltaic is an important part of the UK’s energy mix: there is currently 2.7 GW of PV capacity in the UK – enough to power 620,000 homes – placing us firmly in the global top 10 economies for solar power. We ...
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Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA claims to have shattered the on-resistance barrier of traditional 1200V MOSFET technology by introducing the first commercially available silicon carbide (SiC) 1200V MOSFET with an RDS(ON) of 25mΩ in an ...
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PV silver conductive paste is currently in short supply due to a shortage of silver powder. The shortage will continue until July-August 2014, chairman Chen Chi-jen of Taiwan-based PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials said at a ...
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While Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers have been generally shifting to, or increasing production of, monocrystalline solar cells to meet growing demand, Taiwan-based solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer makers are ...
Sharp Solar returned to the top of the solar photovoltaic (PV) module shipment rankings during the first quarter of 2014, after a five year absence, according to Solarbuzz. Sharp was the solar PV industry market leader for 45 years ...
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Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules) has obtained a sole worldwide license to Furukawa Electric Co Ltd's extensive gallium nitride (GaN) power device ...
Tags: Transphorm GaN-on-Si GaN HEMT, power conversion devices, power modules
Demand for gallium will rise rapidly between 2014 and 2020 as general lighting moves away from incandescent and fluorescent lamps to light-emitting diodes, but this strong growth is unlikely to result in any tightness in supply as the ...
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Taiwan-based solar cell maker Gintech Energy plans to merge with PV module maker Apollo Solar Energy, a subsidiary solar wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET), while GET plans to merge with fellow maker Utech Solar, a Gintech ...
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Taiwan-based solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET) suffered a net loss of NT$131 million (US$4.3 million) for the first quarter, an improvement from the net loss of NT$671 million posted for the preceding ...
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Since the polycrystalline silicon solar cell sector has come to a bottleneck hiking energy conversion rates and cost is increasing, monocrystalline silicon solar cells seem to have an advantage in terms of overall cost-effective ratio and ...
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China has officially unveiled this year’s energy policies and will continue to develop renewable energy. To drive investment and demand to installations, the Chinese government implemented some feed-in tariff (FiT) programs and ...
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There is likely to be concentration of PV systems installed around China due to government-offered feed-in tariff subsidies in the second half of 2014, and consequently Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers are expected to ...
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The UK is forecast to be the largest solar photovoltaic (PV) market in Europe in 2014, fuelled by the rapid growth in ground-mounted solar PV farms. More than 120 large-scale solar PV farms in the UK have recently received project-planning ...
Tags: PV Solarbuzz, Lights, Lighting, PV, Solar