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SunEdison Creates $1 Billion Construction & Operating Asset Facility
SunEdison has announced that they will form a new $1 billion warehouse investment vehicle that will fund construction costs and acquire operating assets. The decision comes on the heels of an odd...
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Rayton Solar Patents Less Expensive, More Efficient Solar Panel
Rayton Solar, headquartered in California, says it can make a solar panel for less than any other manufacturer and that its panels convert more sunlight into electricity than any of its competitors....
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New Bifacial Solar Module Coming From Silfab Solar
The Canadian company Silfab Solar is reportedly now aiming to add 50 new jobs in 2016, bringing the number of employees added in 2015–2016 up to 80, according to recent reports. In addition to the...
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Largest Solar PV Manufacturing Facility In Brazil Now Up
The 180-megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing facility in Valinhos, São Paulo — now the largest such facility in the whole of Brazil — was recently inaugurated in a service put on by Globo...
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SolarCity Silevo Solar Module Aim: 50¢/Watt, 24% Efficiency
SolarCity’s goals for the Silevo solar module manufacturing facility under development in Buffalo, New York, are certainly not unambitious ones — based on the company’s recent SEC filing detailing the...
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Japanese Paper Art Inspired Design Can Increase Solar PV Output By 36%
It is common knowledge that if your solar panels can track the sun, their energy output can increase by as much as 30–40%. In spite of this, only a small number of solar PV installations use trackers....
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China’s LONGi Silicon Plans 1 GW Solar Fab In India
One of the world’s leading silicon wafer producers, XI’AN LONGi Silicon Materials Corp, has expressed intentions to set up a manufacturing unit in India. LONGi Chairman Baoshen Zhong recently signed a...
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Production Begins At Saudi Arabia’s First Solar PV Inverter Facility
Production at a 1 GW solar PV inverter manufacturing facility has begun in Saudi Arabia. The inverter will be the first component to comply with the local production norms. The Shams PV inverters...
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SolarCity Will Build World’s Most Efficient Solar Panels In America
SolarCity announced October 2 it has developed the world's most efficient solar panels and expects to build 10,000 a day at its new 1GW factory in Buffalo. SolarCity Will Build World’s Most Efficient...
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CIGS Thin-Film Plant In China Dropped By Ascent Solar
A joint venture between Ascent Solar and the Chinese city of Suqian to build a thin-film solar plant has been shuttered. Initially, the plant was intended to produce about 25 MW of CIGS thin-film solar...
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Closure Of Thin-Film Development Site Marks Last Stop For Bosch PV Play
German-based Bosch is now in the midst of a complete exit from its solar PV play, having announced it will close its thin-film PV development site, Bosch Solar CISTech GmbH, due to its inability to...
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World’s Most Efficient Silver Paste Exhibited By Heraeus
Reportedly, the most efficient silver paste in the world will be exhibited at the PV Taiwan 2015 conference in Taipei. This paste has been said to have the world record for PERC efficiency, rated at...
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InnoLas Laser Technology Supports 800MW Solar Cell Factory
InnoLas Solutions GmbH (InnoLas) is supplying five additional ILS-TT high throughput laser machines for Passivated Emitter Rear Cell (PERC) technology to Sino-American Silicon Products Inc. (SAS) with...
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Tandem Solar Cell Achieves Record Efficiency
A new tandem solar cell featuring monolithic perovskite and silicon has produced electricity with record efficiency, reports Helmholz-Berlin. “Teams from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and École...
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27-Year PV Power Warrantees Announced By Vikram Solar
West Bengal, India–based PV module manufacturer Vikram Solar has announced some of its 60- and 72-cell multi-crystalline silicon solar modules now come with a linear power warranty up to 27 years. The...
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Sungrow Invests $939 Million In 600 MW Solar Power Projects
Sungrow is the largest inverter manufacturer in China and the company is now expanding into the solar power development business. An agreement was recently signed between eastern China’s Chaohu...
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Hanwha Q Cells Agreement With Sunrun Increases To 135 MW
Due to a new agreement, Hanwha Q Cells will provide up to 135 MW of its solar modules to Sunrun in 2016. The agreement that was signed previously was for quite a bit less, but Sunrun apparently wanted...
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Top Solar Speakers Converge On Berlin April 10th
As I wrote yesterday, Solar Love is partnering with CleanTechnica, EV Obsession, GridHub, and others to bring the first Cleantech Revolution Tour event to Berlin, Germany. It will focus on solar energy...
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Top 10 Solar Power Companies, & Top 5, & Top 10 Again
When you ask who the top solar power companies are, you will probably want to distinguish between residential installers and solar panel manufacturers. Solar power generally is thought of as home solar...
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Top 10 Solar Panel Installers
These top 10 lists are a little peculiar sometimes because one might conclude that they are objective. However, while they can appear to be that way, they are usually more subjective, based in...
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