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Samsung Plans To Conquer Solar Industry
Samsung is diving head long into the solar business by starting a solar cell pilot production line. The South Korean electronics giant, never one to do things in smallmeasures, vows to become the "world’s leading provider of solar powerby 2015," a company executive told AsiaPulse Monday. Samsung has built a factory with a capacity to [...]
Boom Boom Pow: The U.S. PV Hits Just Keep On Comin’
At the risk of sounding slightly self-congratulatory, it feels niceto be right (at least once in a while). A week after the publication ofGTM Research’s report on U.S. PV manufacturing,which predicted that a major build-out of domestic manufacturingcapacity was gathering momentum (the numbers say that the U.S.’s shareof module manufacturing capacity will grow from 5 [...]
SunPower Discusses PV Efficiency (SPWRA)
SunPower’s Doug Rose, the senior director of technology strategy, presented at the Silicon Valley PV Societylast week in a talk titled, "Technology and Economics of HighEfficiency c-Si PV." Of course, the thrust of the talk was the strengthof SunPower’s high-efficiency solar cells and panels, and the impact ofefficiency on the cost and payback of a [...]
Innovalight Reaches 18% Efficiency For Silicon Ink Cells
Innovalight,which makes solar cells by printing what it calls "silicon ink," saidTuesday its cells can convert 18 percent of sunlight that his them intoelectricity. Both the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the FraunhoferInstitute for Solar Energy Systems verified the cells’ efficiency,Innovalight said. Innovalight’s cells came from its 10-megawattproduction line it installed earlier this year, a [...]
How To Make Solar A ‘Hot’ Sector Again – Part II
This is the concluding part of my conversation with Dr. Robert N.Castellano, president of The Information Network, based in New Tripoli,USA. The question of adding new, additional solar capacity willalways arise. Is t certain that no new additional capacity will bebrought on board in 2009? Dr. Castellano said: "Actually I said 2010.Solar manufacturers are already [...]
Clean energy race includes stimulus funding for small businesses
Recently,U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu stated that $37 million in fundingfrom the Recovery Act will be available to qualified small businessesthrough the Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business InnovationResearch (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.This funding report follows a sequence of numerous other greentechnology allocations from the Stimulus program,which are being announced on [...]
Industry-wide solar crisis coming next year –- Thank you China!
The solar industry is at a critical stage and 50 percent of theexisting solar manufacturers may not survive 2010 according to thereport: Opportunities in The Solar Market For Crystalline and Thin Film Solar Cells, published by The Information Network. “Iwrote only a month ago that massive inventory buildup and hugeovercapacity were having a serious impact [...]
Cyrium Gets Full-Time CEO
Cyrium Technologies said today that Harry Rozakis, a veteran of the chip industry, will become the new CEO. The Canadian company has touted solar cells that can convert 40 percent or more of the light that strikes them into electricity.The cells aren’t made of silicon, which some experts say maxes out at29 percent efficiency. Instead, [...]
What could make solar hot again?
Lastweek, I was very fortunate enough to be able to get into a conversationwith Dr. Robert N. Castellano, president of The Information Network,based in New Tripoli, USA. It all started with a column, which hewrites regularly in “The Street.” One of the recent colums of Dr.Castellano touched upon –- What could make solar hot again? [...]