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Suniva News Just Keeps Getting Better
Silicon solar cell startup Sunivais on its way to triple its manufacturing capacity, which would enableit to better compete with competitors with much larger factories. The Norcross, Ga., company has begun production at its new 64-megawatt line. The company began commercial production on a 32-megawatt line last October. Suniva’s technology grew out of research by [...]
Biggest Solar Panels Still Not Big Enough
Considering that the world’s largest solar project (in Germany) coversabout 210 football fields with approximately 560,000 thin-film FirstSolar panels – projected to top out at 700,000 – and still produces amere 53 megawatts, or enough to power 15,000 households, it’s clearthat solar efficiencies are the underlying problem when it comes tosolar’s thin share of the [...]
PV Market Rebound in Q2?
Shipments of solar power (PV) equipment grew by 81 percent in thesecond quarter of 2009 from the first, according to latest analysisfrom IMS Research, indicating the worst of the industry’s downturn maynow be over. Latest quarterly data from IMS Research, whichtracks PV inverter and module shipments, revealed that in spite of thedifficulties the industry is [...]
Sunwize’s Unconventional Marketing Strategy
Subway billboards. Google ads. Tupperware parties. A growing number of solar retailers are turning to sometried-and-true strategies to entice would-be buyers to plunk down agood chunk of their savings to install solar panels on their rooftops. SunWize Technologies is thelatest to try a familiar strategy: getting existing customers to holdneighborhood parties to promote SunWize’s installation [...]
Suntech’s Pluto Technology Reaches 15.6% Efficiency (STP)
Suntech Powersaid Wednesday it now holds the world record in producing the mostefficiency multicrystalline silicon panels, beating a record previouslyheld by Sandia National Laboratories. A panel sporting the company’s newly developed Pluto cells was ableto convert 15.6 percent of the sunlight that strike it intoelectricity, Suntech said. The Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energy Systems in [...]
Absence of turnaround in PV market impacts ersol’s earnings in H1-09
ersol Solar Energy AG (ersol), a company of the Bosch Group, increasedits consolidated revenue to € 72.9 million in the second quarter of2009. Compared with the same period of the previous year (€ 129.9 million), consolidated revenue was thus down by 43.9 percent. Themain reasons for this dramatic slump are the generally adverse marketsituation — [...]
Harvard University Looks to Solar Energy
In 2001, Harvard University bought the Watertown office complex, a750,000-square-foot property, for $162,641,000. Formerly known as theArsenal on the Charles, the site was built in 1816 to produce weaponsand ammunition for Navy ships, used during both World Wars for similarpurposes, and even had its own nuclear reactor. Then, in 1994, it wasclosed. In 2001, the [...]
Solar Stock Comparative Market Review
TheGreen Market’s solar stock picks are outperforming the major marketindices. Despite Wall Street’s one percent retreat yesterday, the majorindices have performed well this year. Prior to yesterday’s slide theDow Jones, Nasdaq and Standard and Poor’s 500 averaged a respectablethree month increase of 10.88 percent, a six month increase of 21.34percent, and a year to date [...]
Previously committed capacity expansions cause solar cell manufacturing oversupply!
According to DisplaySearch’s Q3’09 Quarterly PV Cell Capacity Database & Trends Report,solar cell manufacturing capacity is likely to grow 56 percent in 2009to 17GW. Ramped capacity, which was only 2.3GW in 2005, is forecast togrow at a CAGR of 49 percent to more than 42GW in 2013. "DespitePV module demand shrinking 17 percent in 2009, [...]