Following the anti-dumping and countervailing measures imposed by the US on China and Taiwan solar PV makers, the European Union (EU) is now investigating other Asia countries for allegedly helping China violate the terms of a solar-export ...
Neo Solar Power’s (NSP) N-type bifacial monocrystalline cell, recognized for its high efficiency, was launched at the PV Taiwan 2014 exhibition in Taipei last week. Taiwan is a key player in the manufacturing of high-efficiency solar ...
Tags: mono cell, solar energy
Professor Venkat Selvamanickam at the University of Houston has received a $1,499,994 grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) SunShot Initiative to produce high-efficiency, inexpensive thin-film photovoltaics. The SunShot Initiative ...
Tags: Thin-Film PV, Metal Foil
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
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
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
Alta Devices of Sunnyvale, CA, USA (a Hanergy Holdings company) has announced a cooperation with Airware to enable manufacturers of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to integrate solar power into their aircraft. Founded in 2007, Alta ...
Tags: Alta Devices, GaAs, PV Hanergy
Green Energy Technology (GET) has no plans to expand in-house solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer production capacity, company president Swean Lin said at an October 14 press conference for the upcoming PV Taiwan 2014 exhibition. GET ...
China-based PV module makers and Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers, in an attempt to avoid US anti-subsidization and anti-dumping tariffs, are seeking production capacities in locations outside of China and Taiwan, ...
Some Taiwan-based monocrystalline silicon solar cell makers have been developing bi-facial cells with the front side absorbing direct sunlight and the back side sunlight reflected from the ground, according to industry sources. For a ...
China-based PV module makers have drastically reduced orders released to Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers who are subject to US anti-dumping tariffs at an average rate of 24.23%, but some of them are willing to resume ...
Tags: PV solar cell, Taiwan, PV, Solar Cell, PV Module
Of first- and second-tier Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers, some have upward adjusted quotes from US$0.33-0.34/W to US$0.35-0.36/W for high-efficiency models with an average energy conversion rate of 17.6% while others ...
Tags: solar cell, taiwan, PV
Although supply and demand are fluctuating heavily in the global solar market, the market’s preference for high-efficiency products has remained consistent, with Taiwan manufacturers leading the way, according to EnergyTrend, a ...
Tags: Cell Producers, Sloar Cell
In view of increasing competition from China-based firms, Japan-based PV module vendors have been in talks with Taiwan-based solar cell makers about OEM production for 2015, according to industry sources. Japan-based PV module vendors ...
Iridium Communications Inc of McLean, VA, USA has completed an extensive testing program for qualification of its new solar panel design for the Iridium NEXT constellation of satellites. The array that powers the satellites contains four ...
Tags: Spectrolab, solar panel