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First Solar Makes World’s Most Efficient Thin-Film Solar PV Cell, Again
First Solar, the world’s largest manufacturer of thin-film solar photovoltaic cells and modules, has bettered its record of producing the most efficient solar cell. Credit: First Solar The US-based...
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Good Reasons To Buy Chinese Solar Stocks
Solar energy is a booming industry and China is leading the way. There are good reasons to buy Chinese solar stocks. Business website Motley Fool recently boiled it down to three reasons, despite some...
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Yingli Makes Advancements In Monocrystalline Ingot Formation
Yingli Solar* is the largest solar module manufacture in the world. Based in China, it often receives blanket criticisms of Chinese companies, such as people claiming that Chinese companies don’t...
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SunPower Advances Holdco Strategy With 135 MW Solar Plant
SunPower*, one of the world’s largest solar module manufacturers and developers, as well as the solar efficiency leader for commercial solar cells and solar modules, recently announced that it was...
View ArticleYingli Solar Opens Chile Office As It Expands Into Latin American Market
Yingli Solar recently announced it has opened an office in Santiago, Chile, looking to expand further into the Latin American market. Robert Muhn, formerly of Trina Solar, is the new Managing Director...
View ArticleShunfeng Making Noise With Expansion Plans
Shunfeng Photovoltaic International Limited is making more noise, as it looks into tapping more financial resources for further expansion plans. Bloomberg recently said Shunfeng has talked to five...
View ArticleSolarCity Releases ZS Peak For Better Solar Rooftop Output
SolarCity this week released the ZS Peak, a new system which has potential to increase solar rooftop output for businesses and other organizations. Coming from its line of Zep Solar products,...
View ArticleOne Billion Solar Cells Made By SunPower
California-based solar cell manufacturer, solar module manufacturer, and solar power developer SunPower said recently that it had made its one billionth solar cell. The company started making them 11...
View Article$750 Million Dollars For NY Solar Plant – Could Create 5000 Jobs
The state of New York will provide $750 million dollars for a huge solar plant in Buffalo Governor Cuomo announced this week. $350 million will go towards construction of a 1.2 million-square-foot...
View ArticleHeart-Shaped Solar Plant In New Caledonia By Conergy
The UN climate talks were held last week in New York City, and Conergy announced during the event a one-of-a-kind solar power plant that it was building in the French overseas territory of New...
View ArticleVivint Solar IPO And CEO Interview
Vivint Solar recently had its IPO, so it has been an exciting and critically important time for the residential solar power company. CEO Greg Butterfield generously took some time out of his very busy...
View ArticleSolar Man’s Solar Wonderland Crowdfunding Campaign Aims For $5,000,000
“Solar Man” is aiming to build education as the cornerstone of his new recreational venture, Solar Wonderland. Solar Wonderland is a “gigafactory” and much more. This gigafactory is for building...
View ArticleKyocera and Stem Team Up For Commercial Solar Power Solution
Solar power news keeps getting better. Stem and Kyocera Solar have joined forces to provide both solar panels and an intelligent energy storage system. Stem says that up to 50% of an energy bill can be...
View ArticleIEA Solar Report Provides Wealth of Information (14 Charts)
The newest edition of the Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme report was recently released by the IEA — detailing a huge quantity of different aspects of the global solar PV market as well as country-...
View ArticleHey, Hippie — Get A Job! (In The Solar Energy Industry)
There’s no debate about it — 110% of hippies love solar power. (Okay, that may be is definitely incorrect.) However, it’s certainly true that most hippies love solar power… as ~90% of all people...
View ArticleSolarCity Improves Solar Carport Offering
A new product intended to make the installation of solar carport systems easier, cheaper, and safer was recently unveiled by the US-based solar energy giant SolarCity. The new product — ZS Beam, part...
View ArticleSantander Bank Providing $377 Million Credit Facility To SunPower
Santander Bank has committed to providing a $377 million credit facility to one of SunPower’s holding companies — Solar Star California XIII — as part of a recent deal to partially fund the solar...
View ArticleSunPower Acquires Inverter Startup SolarBridge
SunPower has been a leading solar panel manufacturer for some time, so when it makes an acquisition there is always interest. SolarBridge, an Austin, Texas-based startup is its latest. The price was...
View ArticleSolar Panels + Energy Storage For German Market
An integrated residential rooftop solar and energy storage system will be launched in Germany in December. Hanwha Q Cells rooftop solar and Samsung lithium-ion batteries will be sold together so German...
View ArticleSolar Stocks Headed Into Upward Long-Term Run, Analyst Says
After years of up and down moments, one analyst believes solar stocks are headed towards a long-term run of prosperous growth. “I think solar has a good 15 year run ahead of it as part of a major...
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