First Solar hits new PV cell efficiency record
Arizona-based photovoltaics (PV) firm First Solar says it’s achieved a new world record in efficiency for a cadmium-telluride (CdTe)
DuPont acquires solar-cell innovator Innovalight
DuPont has boosted its position in the solar energy market with the acquisition of Innovalight, a company that specializes in
Researchers use 'continuous solar simulator' to test PV modules
A Texas-based firm is providing a German research organization with a “continuous solar simulator” to enable testing of photovoltaic (PV)
US solar market gets a $4.5 billion boost
Photovoltaics company First Solar has received around $4.5 billion in conditional loan guarantees to support three new solar power
Residential solar a market 'whose time has come'
Baltimore-based Constellation Energy is making an equity investment in residential solar-energy firm Astrum Solar.
The investment, specific terms of which
Historic NJ building adds 1MW of solar power to grid
A power purchase agreement (PPA) is allowing a New Jersey-based organization to add solar energy to its historic headquarters without
China solar firm plans 1GW production expansion
China’s aggressive push into the world’s solar energy markets is taking another jump forward with China Sunergy’s
Tucson utility aims for 7x more solar energy by 2014
Tucson Electric Power (TEP) is on track to add what will be its largest single source of solar energy yet.
Project Amp will be largest rooftop solar project in US history
An effort known as Project Amp aims to install solar panels on industrial buildings across the US and feed the
120,000 new solar modules go up in Bavaria
Construction has started on what will be one of the largest solar energy parks in Bavaria, Germany.
Set for completion
