Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) on January 29 announced the additional investment of 15 billion yen (US$167 million) in M.Setek, AUO's poly-Si material subsidiary...
Taiwan-based makers have revealed that they have obtained many orders for grade B solar cells in addition to normal grade products as demand heats up ahead of anticipated cuts in...
Germany's Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) has set tentative reductions in feed-in tariff rates for photovoltaic (PV) system installation...
Lite-On Green Energy Technologies (LOGT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Taiwan-based electronic component and product maker Lite-On Technology, has begun to provide PV system integration...
The increasing dominance of Asia-based, in particular China- and Taiwan-based, solar call makers in Europe may be prompting European governments to cut-back their feed-in subsidies...
AU Optronics (AUO) has disclosed that a 3MWp solar-power plant in a small town in Germany using its PV modules started running on December 22, supplying electricity for 800 househo...
China-based LDK Solar, globally the largest maker of solar-grade poly-Si wafers, is raising funds to solve its financial problems and to prepare for establishing new business units...
The renewable energy feed-in tariff rates determined by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on December 18 are expected to stimulate installation of photovoltaic (PV) power-generating...
AU Optronics (AUO) has announced it will invest up to US$8 million to establish a subsidiary, AUO Energy (Suzhou), in eastern China to provide photovoltaic (PV) system design, planning...
AU Optronics (AUO) has ordered a turnkey production line for photovoltaic (PV) modules with an annual capacity of 50MWp from a Japan-based equipment maker and will begin production...
Several provincial governments in China, in an attempt to capitalize on the country's Golden Sun PV subsidization program, have offered incentives to tout investment from Taiwan-based...
The China government, in order to boost the execution of Golden Sun, a 2009-2010 subsidization program to promote development of PV technologies and their applications as well as...
The China government is likely to cancel a program to subsidize building-integrated photovoltaic systems (BIPV) at a rate of 20 yuan (US$2.9) per watt because of its overlapping with...
Taiwan-based Delta Electronics has obtained a contract from Silicon Valley-based River of Life Christian Church to install a 117KWp (kilowatt-peak) on-grid photovoltaic (PV) system...
Taiwan-based foundry United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) will invest US$1 million to establish EverRich Energy (Shan Dong) in northern China to provide photovoltaic (PV) system...