How Toxic Are Solar Panels? Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition Solar Scorecard 2013
The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) moments ago released its annual Solar Scorecard. I had the opportunity to talk with Sheila Davis, Executive Director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition,...
View ArticleAre Solar Stocks On The Rise Or About To Fall Again?
Depending on who you ask, solar stocks are always either on the rebound and about to rise indefinitely, or about to fall further than they have for the past few years. Solar’s Long Fall To start with,...
View ArticleFirst Solar Set To Install 1.1 GW Of Solar In 2013!
First Solar has plowed through the solar business difficulties of the past few years. And it is looking to push through strong to the other side. As one checkpoint along the way, it looks like First...
View ArticleSolar Panel Installation Boom: ⅔ Of Solar Panel Capacity Shipped Within Last...
There’s a solar panel installation boom going on. In the EU. In the US. In Asia. In South America. Globally. Solar panel installation volumes have skyrocketed due to falling solar power prices and...
View ArticleSolar PV Panel System Installed Every 4 Minutes In US
In the United States, a solar system is installed every 4 minutes (360 solar systems per day), according to GTM Research. For such a small industry, that is massive growth. This means that, soon, the...
View ArticleChina & Japan Solar Boom A Huge Turning Point For Solar PV Industry
A leading solar market research firm, NPD Solarbuzz, projects that the booming solar markets in China and Japan are turning this ship around (the broader solar industry ship). In other words, solar...
View ArticleRecord CPV Panel Efficiency From Soitec
Soitec, a consistent leader in concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) efficiency and commercial development, this month announced that it had set a 31.8% CPV commercial module efficiency record. “Soitec’s new...
View ArticleRecord Conversion Efficiency For China Sunergy Solar Cells
China Sunergy has reportedly set a record for monocrystalline solar cell efficiency. The new record, 20.26%, has been verified by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE)....
View ArticleFirst Solar Reports Thin-Film Solar Cost Drop Better Than Seen Since 2007
Thin-film solar market leader First Solar recently reported its largest quarterly decline in CdTe module costs per-watt since 2007, as part of its third quarter 2013 financial results report. The...
View Article3 New Solar Records For US
Originally published on Cost of Solar. How much will solar save you? Find out in about 60 seconds! I’m sure that a number of our visitors contributed to the new solar power records set in the US in the...
View ArticleSolar Frontier Breaks CZTS Solar Cell Efficiency Record
Solar Frontier, a Japan-based thin-film solar technology company, has reportedly broken the CZTS solar cell efficiency record, in partnership with IBM and TOK. The efficiency record was set on a solar...
View ArticleUS Solar Jobs Up To ~143,000
The Solar Foundation just released its latest US solar jobs census, National Solar Jobs Census 2013. The key finding is that US solar jobs were up to at least 142,698 as of November 2013. That’s about...
View ArticleSunEdison & Saudi Arabia Looking At Building $6.4 Billion Solar PV Facility
The Saudi Arabian government, along with the noted solar developer SunEdison, is currently undertaking a feasibility study for a proposed $6.4 billion fully integrated solar PV manufacturing complex....
View ArticleJinkoSolar Launches New Smart Modules
It may not get the attention that First Solar, SunPower, and Yingli Green Energy get, but JinkoSolar is routinely one of the top 10 solar module manufacturers in the world. JinkoSolar just yesterday...
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Yingli Lands Largest Order To Date In Israel & Middle East
Yingli Solar (aka Yingli Green Energy*), which is “the largest vertically integrated photovoltaic (‘PV’) module manufacturer in the world,” recently landed its largest order to date in Israel and the...
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Concepts In Photovoltaic Technology
Since the first solar cell was produced by Bell Labs in the 1950s, solar photovoltaic (PV) technology has been gradually evolving. The work resulted in the development of a compound which is formed of...
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Types Of Power Converters In A PV System
One of the most important parts in PV system architecture is the power converters. The reason is that they play an important role in transforming the different types of electricity, to make the...
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Yingli Still #1 Solar Manufacturer
With nearly 10% of the solar module market in 2013, Yingli Green Energy (YGE)* retained the #1 spot in the market. To be more exact, 9.4% of solar module capacity sold in 2013 came from Yingli. #2 was...
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SunPower Lands 30 MW Concentrated Solar Power Deal In Inner Mongolia, China
SunPower* has long been an efficiency leader in commercially available solar PV cells and modules. It also routinely ranks in the top 10 for global solar module sales. If the even-higher-efficiency...
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Latin America’s Largest Distributed Solar Development Will Be Unsubsidized
Tiendas Soriana, which is apparently Mexico’s second-largest retailer, is embarking on Latin America’s largest distributed (rooftop solar) development project. Mexico is a hot solar market, as is Latin...
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