Boeing Announces Highest Ever Energy Conversion Efficiency without Solar Concentration

Increased efficiency for ground-based applications SYLMAR, California, April , 2013 A Spectrolab solar cell recently set a world record by converting more energy from the sun into electricity than any other ground-based solar cell without solar concentration. The Boeing [NYSE: BA] subsidiary’s achievement in ground-based solar cell efficiency was verified by the U.S. Department of [...]

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Class Action Lawsuit Against Canadian Solar Dismissed with Prejudice

GUELPH, Ontario, April 2013. Canadian Solar, Inc., one of the world’s largest solar power companies, today announced that the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed with prejudice a class action lawsuit filed against the Company and certain named defendants. The lawsuit alleged that the Company’s financial disclosures during 2009 [...]

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St.Louis Solar Developer Announces Innovative New Solar Modules

ST. LOUIS , January, 2013. MEMC Electronic Materials (NYSE:WFR), this week introduced the MEMC SilvantisTM M330 Solar Module. The Silvantis M330 is the first product to be manufactured exclusively with MEMC-produced polysilicon and CCz p-type mono wafers leveraging the company’s strategic vertical integration. MEMC’s new Silvantis M330 Module extends its existing module family and features [...]

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JinkoSolar to Jointly Invest and Develop 200 MW Solar PV Project with Jinchuan Group in Gansu Province

SHANGHAI, China. JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (“JinkoSolar” or the “Company”) (NYSE: JKS), a leading global solar power product manufacturer, today announced that it has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Jinchuan Group Co., Ltd. (“Jinchuan Group”), a Chinese state-owned enterprise, to jointly invest and develop a 200 MW photovoltaic (“PV”) solar power plant in Jinchang, [...]

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Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Worldwide Demand Growth Expected to Continue

MENLO PARK, California. During 2010, new solar photovoltaic (PV) demand worldwide approached 10,000 MW, and is expected to grow by double digit percentages annually for the foreseeable future, if production costs can be driven to market-competitive levels. In response to interest in photovoltaics for industrial and utility scale power, SRI Consulting, now part of IHS [...]

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Arizona Solar Panel Factory to Reduce Production Shifts

Goodyear, Arizona,November, 2012. Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), the world’s largest producer of solar panels, will stop two of three production shifts and reduce its workforce at its Goodyear, Arizona, solar panel manufacturing facility. The slowdown in production is due to global oversupply and higher production costs related to recent import tariffs imposed [...]

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JinkoSolar Exhibits at Solar Conference in Frankfurt Germany

SHANGHAI. JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (“JinkoSolar” or the “Company”) (NYSE: JKS), a leading global solar power product manufacturer, is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting at the 27th EU PVSEC trade fair to be held at the exhibition grounds in Frankfurt, Germany, from 25 to 28 September.   JinkoSolar’s latest products, including the [...]

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Chinese Solar Imports to the U.S. Drop for Three Consecutive Months

WASHINGTON, Aug 13, 2012. For the third straight month, imports of Chinese solar cells and panels into the United States decreased year-over-year, according to the Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing (CASM). In June, Chinese solar imports totaled $99.6 million, down almost 60 percent from $241.5 million in June 2011, according to the Department of Commerce’s [...]

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Panasonic to Sponsor Tokai University’s Solar Car Team at South African Solar Challenge 2012

Osaka, Jul 19, 2012. Panasonic Corporation today announced its sponsorship of Tokai University’s solar car team competing at the South African Solar Challenge 2012 (SASC), the longest distance solar car race in the world, to be held from September 17 to 29, 2012. Panasonic’s energy solutions helped the Japanese university team to victory at the [...]

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Cutting the Costs of Solar PV Manufacturing

New Technologies Will Cut Cost of Solar PV Metallization by up to 50% BOSTON, Jul 17, 2012. SolarThermalMagazine.com Metallization of solar cells – laying down metal electrodes to collect the electricity generated by the sunlight – is costly, largely because of the high and rising cost of the silver that’s typically used. Now, however, emerging [...]

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Will Tariffs on Chinese Solar Cells Make Solar More or Less Expensive to U.S. Conumers?

More Harm than Good: Lux Research Expects Solar Power to Become More Expensive in the U.S. with the Proposed Tariffs on Chinese Solar Cells Boston, MA – June 6, 2012 – While the preliminary tariffs recently announced by the United States Department of Commerce (U.S. DOC) should – at face value – help drive the [...]

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Eclipse Live by Solar Power Achieves More than 200K Viewers from 142 Countries

They broadcasted live feed of the Solar Eclipse, mixing the live filming of the Solar Eclipse from Wakayama and commentary from the base camp in Mount Fuji.

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SolarWorld States Anti-Dumping Duties Against ‘Big China Solar’ a Step Toward Restoring Industry Competition

The department also announced that in light of a massive, evasive surge of imports ahead of the determination, these new duties would apply retroactively 90 days.

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