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DOE Treasury Throws $150M at Clean Energy Manufacturing
In an effort to spur more U.S.-based solar, wind and other clean energy manufacturing, the Department of Energy and the Treasury Department teamed up to offer $150 million in tax credits. Under the offer, announced today, Feb. 7, the Treasury Department is allocating credits to the Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits program that weren’t previously [...]
SunPartner Enters U.S Market
SunPartner, a French company that won the second-ever Nobel Sustainability award earlier this month, is expanding its technology to solarize new surfaces and its market reach into the United States. SunPartner is known for its WYSIPS technology, which stands for “What You See Is a Photovoltaic Surface.” It’s an ultra-thin, transparent and flexible solar film [...]
Solar Industry Standards: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
To bring next-generation pv to market in a way that’s standardized both for manufacturers and end-users, SEMI, a semiconductor manufacturers industry organization has partnered with the U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC), a DOE SunShot Initiative program focussed on reducing the costs PV. The two organizations announced Jan. 29 a memorandum of understanding to more directly [...]
How Solar Can Transform the Real Estate Industry
Progress in solar financing is at the heart of the solar industry’s growth. Since the initial passage of the solar investment tax credit (ITC) back in 2005, and its extensions since then, financing has been the greatest boon and greatest hurdle of the industry. On the one hand, you have companies like Sungevity and Solar [...]
The Middle East and North Africa: Solar Mega Growth Ahead
Demand for solar energy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region will skyrocket in the next five years, according to a new report from GTM Research and the Emirates Solar Industry Association (EISA). “In terms of solar energy, it is clear that the MENA region is set to experience significant change over the [...]
The 2013 World Future Energy Summit
First Solar is pleased to be a platinum sponsor and exhibitor at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) taking place in Abu Dhabi January 15-17. WFES is an exciting platform to demonstrate First Solar’s capabilities and build lasting relationships in a region that is rapidly embracing the full potential of clean energy. At the forefront of [...]
Review: The 2012 Solar PV Industry
The difficulties that the global solar industry experienced in 2012 were both clear and expected. Continuing excess solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing capacity spurred a collapse in prices across the PV value chain, creating consistently negative margins and negative profitability for upstream PV manufacturers. This led to a large number of bankruptcies, insolvencies and acquisitions, but [...]
Latin America: The New Solar Hotbed?
High electricity costs (both wholesale and retail), rumors of government tenders, and significant price declines of photovoltaic equipment have attracted a rush of solar development in Latin America and the Caribbean. At the start of 2013, more than 10 gigawatts of large-scale projects have been announced in the region, but just 91 megawatts are currently [...]
Will PV Module Prices Finally Stabilize?
Solar PV revenues and module prices are predicted to slightly stabilize in the second half of 2013 but not after more declines over the next several months, according to a market research report released this week from IHS. A new solar PV module shipment record of 11GW was reached in the fourth quarter according to [...]