Standing before solar panels that were made in Delaware and could help power the state, Governor Jack Markell last week announced his intention to seek legislation that will put more people to work, help homes and businesses secure locally-generated power and expand emerging industries such as wind and solar power in Delaware to create new [...]
Seal Beach, CA – Amonix Inc., the leading manufacturer of utility scale high concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) systems, today announces the expansion of its Seal Beach manufacturing capacity. The announcement coincides with an end-of-October celebration of the company’s 20 years of developing, manufacturing and deploying its technology.
Amonix now has 30MW of annual manufacturing capacity. The automated [...]
JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company announced today that it expects the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Arcadia, Fla., to begin delivering electricity to customers later this month – ahead of schedule.
The facility will overtake Nevada’s Nellis Solar Power Plant for the title of largest solar photovoltaic solar facility in [...]
With the rapid and huge demand for new energy in China, TD.Fortune Consulting will launch the new solar energy trade mission to invite overseas solar companies to join in the potential market, to develop this industry opportunity together. November 2nd to 6th , 2009
According to TDFortune:
2008 global production of thin-film solar cells of 892MW, an [...]
This New Jersey company has delivered its first shipment on an order for 200,000 solar PV systems. Metallic blue solar photovoltaic modules embedded with sophisticated power management and communications systems began rolling out of Petra Solar’s headquarters and manufacturing plant in South Plainfield, NJ this month in the largest solar electric project under construction in the [...]
E U of T
Researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology have made the first high-resolution 3D images of the inside of a polymer solar cell. This gives them important new insights in the nanoscale structure of a polymer solar cell and the effect on its performance. This gives them important new insights into the [...]
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., a world leader in the manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) modules, recently announced that it has achieved a new world record conversion efficiency of 15.6% on a commercial grade multi-crystalline silicon PV module. This conversion efficiency surpasses the previous record of 15.5% (aperture area only) set by Sandia National Labs 15 years ago. [...]
NREL
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu announced today the investment of up to $11.8 million—$5 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—for five projects designed to advance the next stage of development of solar energy grid integration systems (SEGIS).
The selections announced today are part of DOE’s continuing work to help assure [...]
JUSUNG, one of the world’s leading suppliers of equipment for semi-conductor and thin-film technology manufacturers, and CEA LITEN (the Laboratory for Innovation in New Energy Technologies and Nanomaterials) have signed a Joint Development agreement for a two-year project to develop high-efficiency silicon solar cells (>20% efficiency).
The two partners are to pool their expertise in this [...]