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Global Solar Energy’s thin film CIGS achieves 13.2 percent efficiency
Global Solar Energy announced that the US Department of Energy’’sNational Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the nation’s primarylaboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research anddevelopment, confirmed 13.2 percent aperture area efficiency for amodule made by Global Solar Energy applying its production-line thinfilm solar material. Global Solar Energy is the firstmanufacturer to exceed the 13 percent [...]
Nanosolar Hits 16.4 Percent Efficiency in Lab
MountainView. Nanosolar, the heavily-funded copper indium gallium selenide(CIGS) solar panel maker, is going commercial, says co-founder BrianSager. "We’re past our R&D. The whole idea here is to buy multiplelines of manufacturing equipment and scale as the market demands," hesaid during an impromptu meeting after a press conference for CobaltBiofuels. "We’re really only limited by market [...]
LDK Solar completes sale of 15 percent ownership stake in polysilicon plant
LDK Solar Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solarwafers, today announced that it completed the sale of a 15 percentownership stake in its 15,000 metric ton (MT) annualized capacitypolysilicon plant to Jiangxi International Trust and Investment Co.,Ltd. for RMB1.5 billion. The proceeds from the sale have been receivedby LDK Solar. LDK Solar Co., Ltd. [...]
Suntech Shoots for 20 percent of U.S. Solar Market (STP)
Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd just can’t seem to stay out of thenews lately. News outlets have mentioned the Chinese solarmanufacturer’s name in connection with—among other things—a potential import tariff hike on solar panels, Pakistan’s incipient solar market and, most recently, Suntech’s plans for its first U.S. plant, around Phoenix, AZ. Now, Forbes (via Reuters) [...]
Spire’s revenues grows 9 percent YoY for first nine months
Spire Corp., a global solar company providing capital equipment tomanufacture photovoltaic (PV) modules, turnkey manufacturing lines andsolar PV systems, reported revenues from continuing operations for thethird-quarter ended September 30, 2009 of $16.5 million, as compared to$16.6 million for the same quarter of 2008. Net loss for thethird-quarter of 2009 was $3.5 million, or $(0.42) per [...]
MiaSolé’s 10 percent efficient modules receive UL and IEC certifications
MiaSolé, the emerging leader in the manufacture of CIGS thin filmphotovoltaic modules received simultaneous certification of its 100 and107 watt CIGS thin film, solar modules to UL 1703 and IEC 61646 and61730 standards on October 30, 2009. It was the first CIGSthin film module to be certified by UL to the three most criticalcertification standards [...]
Global Solar Energy Reaches 15.45% Efficiency on CIGS Cells
Global Solar Energywants you to know two things today: Itscopper-indium-gallium-diselenide (CIGS) cells could covert as much as15.45 percent of the sunlight that falls on them into electricity; and,it’s pursuing sales in the so-called building integrated photovoltaic(BIPV) market, where solar cells are embedded into building componentsinstead of encased in glass panels and parked on a rooftop. [...]
Union Distributing to Install Arizonas Third Largest Private Solar Energy System
In a pleasing synchronicity between old and new energy paradigms,Phoenix, Arizona-based Union Distributing recently announced theinstallation of two solar photovoltaic energy systems, one for its mainbulk plant/headquarters and the second for a distribution hub. Union,a Shell Oil-affiliated petroleum products distributor that started lifein 1986 as a Union 76 bulk plant in Tucson and then expanded [...]
NY Merchandiser Installs Zero-Energy Solar Power
City Merchandise, New York’s largest and one of the nation’s mostcomprehensive souvenir distributors, recently installed arooftop-mounted 68.4-kilowatt system on its Sunset Park (Brooklyn)building. For City Merchandise, which distributes memorabiliafor over 35 U.S. cities, the installation represents an opportunity togo “zero-energy”; that is, the solar system provides all of CityMerchandise’s electricity needs now and well into [...]