Portugal solar PV equipment market to rebound in 2011

Research and Markets has announced the addition of GlobalData ‘s new report "Portugal Solar PV Equipment Market to Rebound in 2011" to its offering. Portugalis one of the emerging hotspots for solar PV in the world. ThePortuguese government has one of the most ambitious renewable energytargets in Europe in order to become energy self sufficient [...]

PV Technology Equipment and Market Report

Yole Développement updated its new markets and technological study dedicated to the photovoltaic industry: Photovoltaic Technology Equipment & Market Report 2009. Inits analysis, Yole Développement takes into account the financialcrisis: the company presents an overview of the PV industry includingall markets and technological impacts. This markets and technologicalstudy offers a full description and analysis of [...]

Evergreen To Auction Off Solar Equipment (ESLR)

Want some used solar energy factory equipment? Evergreen Solar might have what you need. The Marlboro, Mass.-based based public company is set to auction offsome equipment starting on Oct. 7. The sale, through online auctionsite GoIndustry DoveBid, is scheduled to end on Oct. 10 (see list of equipment for sale). It’s unclear where the equipment [...]

Solar-powered Equipment For Soldiers

Atpresent, soldiers carry up to 70kg of equipment, out of which about 10%is the weight of the batteries that are required to charge theirradios, counter-measure devices and flashlights. Researchers at the University of Glasgowbelieve that the weight of the backpacks of future soldiers will beconsiderably lighter, as the number of batteries in there will bereduced. [...]

Watch for fallout in equipment companies as solar crisis hits in 2010

Solar equipment companies will feel the impact of a looming solar industry crisis in 2010 according to the report: Opportunities in The Solar Market For Crystalline and Thin Film Solar Cells, published by The Information Network. “Inour release on September 3, we forecast that in 2010 the solar industrywill exhibit capacity utilization of 25.7 percent, [...]

Spire Solar offers input for Department of Energy tax credit and loan applications

Spire Corp., a global solar company providing capital equipment tomanufacture photovoltaic (PV) modules and turnkey manufacturing linesis offering technical and financial modeling support to companiesapplying for the Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit (MTC) 48C andManufacturing Line Loan applications. The American Reinvestmentand Recovery Act of 2009 (ARRA) has authorized the Department ofTreasury to award $2.3 billion [...]

DOE, US Treasury to award $2.3bn in clean energy tax credits

“This program will help encourage innovation in design of clean energy technologies,” says Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. The funds are part of the $787bn economic stimulus law passed by Congress in March, which provided developers with a 30% investment tax credit for facilities that manufacture particular types of energy equipment. Qualifying manufactures will produce solar, [...]

Improving Throughput And Cell Quality Through Upgraded Equipment

Turnkey CIGS Factory?

Has the time come for standards in CIGS? Germany-based Centrotherm Photovoltaics has developed a line of equipmentfor making copper-indium-gallium-diselenide thin films. Integratedtogether, the equipment effectively constitutes a factory-in-a-box forCIGS panels, similar to the factory-in-a-boxes produced for amorphoussilicon producers by Applied Materials and Oerlikon. On Monday, it boasted that it could produce CIGS cells with 13 [...]

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