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- Dow Corning touts solar installation on German manufacturing site (Electronic News)
- Midland, Mich.-based silicon-based technology provider Dow Corning http://www.dowcorning.com is detailing its solar panel installation on one of its largest manufacturing sites in Europe, which includes more than 1,000 square meters of solar panels. Midland, Mich.-based silicon-based technology provider Dow Corning http://www.dowcorning.com is detailing its solar...
- Research articles 2007-08-27
- Price fall keeps German industry under cloud
- The decision last month by Q-Cells, the world's largest solar cell manufacturer, to scrap its full-year revenue forecast provided a stark illustration of the storm clouds hanging over the German photovoltaic sector.The global slump in the price of solar components ? caused in part by an excess of supply...
- External links 2009-08-18
- Evergreen Solar Walking on Sunshine
- Evergreen Solar said Thursday it received two long-term contracts worth nearly $1 billion. The company inked a $750 million deal with Germany-based Ralos Vertriebs, a major European installer of large-scale solar power plants, for panel deliveries starting this year through 2013 and another deal worth about $250...
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- First Solar and Fotowatio Reap the Recession's Benefits
- The beginning of 2009 is proving an active and not at all disappointing period for solar power, with changes will no doubt shape the industry's future. This Monday, that meant the takeover of swathes of the utility-scale market for solar panels by First Solar and the Spanish company Fotowatio. ...
- Blog posts 2009-03-03
- Sustainable Food Initiatives Roundup: Frito-Lay, Del Monte, Ruby Tuesday and More
- Frito-Lay to introduce compostable chip bag -- The PepsiCo snack division will package SunChips in bags made of renewable plant-based materials starting by Earth Day of next year. When composted, the package will break down within 14 weeks, the company said. The current SunChips packaging, introduced earlier this month, is...
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Suntech Signs Up For Huge Chinese Solar Projects
- Suntech, which likes to bill itself as the "world's largest crystalline silicon photovoltaic manufacturer," has raised its already ambitious sights to a new high. According to a company press release sent out this morning, it plans to build a set of four projects in China totaling 1.8 gigawatts of electricity,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
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- China Solar Panel Maker Sets First U.S. Plant
- By Adam Aston President Barack Obama at the Nellis Air Force Base solar power site, with Col. Howard Belote and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) John Locher-Pool/Getty Images China's Suntech Power Holdings STP is no newcomer to the U.S. Last May, President Barack Obama toured the U.S.'s largest solar...
- News items 2009-11-16
- Trina Solar: Still Struggling to Bring Manufacturing Costs in Line With Falling Prices
- Jifan Gao, chairman and chief executive of Trina Solar, told analysts on the solar panel maker's second-quarter earnings call that he believed market confidence was returning to the photovoltaic sector and expected gross margin to stabilize going forward. Critical to Gao's optimistic modeling, however, are certain assumptions on the vertically...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Report: The dark side of solar
- Solar cells may generate clean green electricity but manufacturing them involves a witches brew of toxic chemicals that could harm the environment if millions of solar panels end up in landfills, according to a report issued Wednesday by the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. The California environmental group is calling for...
- News items 2009-08-07
- First Solar's Utility Contracts Pass Production Capacity
- Thin-film solar panel maker First Solar now has a second giant utility contract totaling 550 megawatts, a deal it announced today with the utility Southern California Edison. Together with the 550MW installation on California's Carrizo Plain that First Solar inherited when it bought Optisolar, the company now...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Spray-On Solar? Don't Bet On It Yet
- The latest "cool" solar story is out and making the rounds. This time, it's solar cells that you can spray on to any surface, like just like spray-can paint. Innovalight The University of Texas at Austin, Tex. says it could have this new technology out in three to five...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- SHARP OPENS MEMPHIS PLANT FOR SOLAR ENERGY PRODUCTS.
- Sharp Corporation, Memphis, Tenn., a global leader in solar energy production, and its U.S. sales and marketing subsidiary Sharp Electronics Corporation, have officially opened its first solar panel manufacturing facility outside of Japan in Memphis, Sharp Corporation, Memphis, Tenn., a global leader in solar energy ...
- Research articles 2003-12-01
- Sharp opens U.S. plant for solar energy products.(Newsline)(Brief Article)
- Memphis, Tenn. -- Sharp Corp., and its U.S. sales and marketing subsidiary Sharp Electronics Corp., officially opened its first solar panel manufacturing facility outside of Japan in Memphis, Tenn., on Oct. 16, 2003. The factory in Memphis, based at Memphis, Tenn. -- Sharp Corp., and...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- GE plans to ramp up solar panel production
- General Electric aims to ramp up production of solar power panels by early next year as a crucial step in its bid to transform its initial investments in the renewable energy field into a multibillion-dollar business.GE has started to build pilot production lines at its facility in Colorado, said...
- External links 2009-09-14
- Applied Materials Launches Strategy to Reduce the Cost Per Watt of Solar Power
- SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT), the global leader in equipment and services for manufacturing semiconductors and flat panel displays, today launched its strategy to enter the rapidly growing solar photovoltaic PV equipment market. Applied Materials will provide a combination of manufacturing tools, together with technology and process...
- Research articles 2006-09-05
- Jefferies Downgrades The Whole Solar Industry
- Associated Press, HOUSTON -- Jefferies & Co. lowered its ratings on eight solar companies Friday, citing numerous risks that could play out in the coming months, including a continuation of falling prices. In reports to clients, Jefferies noted that a continued downward spiral in pricing, while accompanied by lower...
- News items 2009-08-21
- Energy Roundup: China Ups Acquisition Ante, Q-Cells Axes 500 Jobs, Chevron's New Toy, and More
- China's insatiable energy resource appetite --Â China's hunger for energy resources has boosted its spending on oil and mining acquisitions by at least half this year, despite growing concern and opposition in the U.S. and Australia. If China National Petroleum buys Repsol YPF's Argentine unit, the country's purchase of overseas...
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- Solar Manufacturers Draw Investors' Attention
- Zachary Scheidt submits: Suntech Power Holdings STP traded sharply higher yesterday morning after the company announced that they would be opening a manufacturing facility in Arizona. The China-based solar panel maker has managed to remain profitable this year despite a difficult environment for solar manufacturers. The...
- External links 2009-11-17
- DuPont expanding capacity for solar-panel materials
- DuPont Co. said it is spending $50 million on a plant that will make film used in photovoltaic solar panels in Fayetteville, N.C., where the company has a large operation. Demand for the Wilmington chemical company's Tedlar films, which are used in the protectective backsheets of solar panels, is increasing...
- Research articles 2006-08-23
- SMIC TO PRODUCE SOLAR CELL AND PANEL
- AsiaInfo Services 03-29-2006 SMIC to Produce Solar Cell and Panel SHANGHAI, Mar 29, 2006 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation SMIC, a Shanghai-headquartered IC foundry, said it would make solar cells AsiaInfo Services 03-29-2006...
- Research articles 2006-03-29
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