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LG Display to nurture thin-film solar cell business as future growth driver

LG Display Co. Ltd, a leading innovator of thin-film transistor liquidcrystal display (TFT-LCD) technology, announced plans to focus itsR&D capabilities on a thin-film type solar cell and nurture it as afuture growth driver. LG Display plans to invest KRW50 billioninto R&D to build a pilot line within its Paju display complex inKorea during the second [...]

Solar PV capex cuts will ease capacity growth in time for recovery

Much like the boom-to-bust IC industry in recent decades,manufacturers of solar-energy cells and thin films are having adifficult time matching investments for new production capacity withthe recessionary and recovery throes of the fledgling photovoltaic(PV)-device market, based on the analysis in a new 2009 report from ICInsights: Solar Energy: Growth Opportunities for the Semiconductor Industry. Themismatch [...]

Significant mismatch between solar cell shipment targets and likely 2009 results!

Young Market Research (YMR) has released the first issue of its Monthly Solar Cell Capacity, Shipment and Company Profile Database and Report.This three-in-one report features essential supply, shipment andcompany profile data and analysis on over 210 different cellmanufacturers. According to Ross Young, YMR President: “Thefirst issue of this report shows that solar cell manufacturers arecurrently [...]

California Electric Company Sees Difficulties Boosting Renewable Energy

EdisonInternational, owner of California’s largest electric utility, said itwill be difficult to keep increasing its use of renewable energy as thelatest goal set by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stretches limits onthe ability to manage such power sources. “It’s a goal weshould be behind,” Chief Executive Officer Ted Craver said today in aninterview in New York. “The [...]

2009 remains cloudy for solar inverter market

The global market for PV inverters is likely to fall by 27 percent thisyear to under $2 billion according to the latest analysis from IMSResearch. Despite the record growth seen in 2008, with themarket growing by 95 percent to reach $2.5 billion, this year is set tobe very different. IMS Research’s ongoing analysis of the [...]

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