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Sacramento Solar Power Plant Expansion On Track
In June 2009, construction started on a 3.6 MW solar energy plant ataerospace giant Aerojet’s Sacramento location. In November 2009,Aerojet (a GenCorp Group company, NYSE: GY) and solar installer SolarPower, Inc. (OTCBB: SOPW) announced they were dreaming big: they were commissioning a 2.4 MW expansionto the system, which would expand it to 6 MW and make it [...]
SPI Lasers Plans Expansion
SPI Lasers, a Southampton, U.K.-based designer and manufacturer of fiber lasers, says it is increasing investment in people, machinery and sales channels following significant growth in demand for its products. Thisdevelopment, combined with new product releases planned in each quarterof this year, has warranted a doubling of manufacturing floor space;recruiting across operational, engineering and sales [...]
DuPont Completes $295 Million Expansion for PV Market
DuPont announced an investment of $175 million to complete themulti-phase expansion of its high-performance DuPont Tedlar PV2001series oriented film production line. This investment is in addition to$120 million in capacity expansions, announced in August 2009, for rawmaterials used to make the film, bringing the total commitment of thesetwo phases to $295 million. Tedlar films serve [...]
Power Efficiency Looks to Further Expansion in 2010
Power Efficiency, the leading energy procurement and carbon strategyconsultancy, is looking forward to further expansion of its business in2010 following a successful 2009, which saw a significant expansion inits business as the company continued to increase its energy spendmanagement and carbon consulting services. Handling around £500million of combined spend on energy for its 180 clients, [...]
Solarfun announces 2010 capacity expansion
Solarfun Power Holdings Co. Ltd, a vertically integrated manufacturerof silicon ingots and photovoltaic cells and modules in China,announced a capacity expansion due to anticipated demand. Solarfunwill increase its PV module production capacity from 550MW to 700MW byApril 2010 and its PV cell production capacity from 360MW to 480MW byJuly 2010. Peter Xie, President of Solarfun, [...]
Neo Solar Plans 150% Factory Expansion
Next year has got to be better than 2009, right? That would seem tobe the case, judging from recent announcements by solar companies thatare planning some big factory expansion. Neo Solar Power, headed by a former executive of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., Quincy Lin, plans to expand its annual factory capacity to 600 megawatts in [...]
Stäubli completes expansion of US production facility
The Stäubli Group has completed the expansion of its Duncan plant inSouth Carolina / USA. The occasion has been celebrated on October 29thwith a ribbon cutting ceremony in the presence of Stäubli Group CEORolf Strebel, Stäubli Corporation CEO Yves Stäubli and Multi-ContactCEO Franco Delvecchio. In response to the expanding solar powermarket, the new building addition [...]
Masdar PV: First Commercial Project and Factory Expansion
After production began this past summer, Masdar PV is now seeing the first installation that uses its amorphous-silicon thin films. Munich-based Solar Werke is building the 1-megawatt project forBeton Fertigteilbau Erfurt (BEF), and it expects to complete theground-mounted array by the end of the year. BEF was a concretesupplier for Masdar PV. The project is [...]
SolarWorld Plans Expansion
SolarWorldplans to expand its solar panel production in the United States whilealso boosting its solar cell manufacturing, the company said Monday. Germany-based SolarWorld said it would be adding a 350-megawattsolar panel assembly plant next to its fairly new solar cell factory inHillsboro, Ore. by 2011. The company currently has a 150-megawatt solarpanel factory in Camarillo, [...]