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Thursday 15 December 2011
First Solar revises down 2011 revenues guidance
US-based First Solar has updated the 2011 financial guidance and announced 2012 guidance.
Wednesday 30 November 2011
Q-Cells CIGS thin-film technology reaches 17.4% efficiency
Solibro, a subsidiary of Q-Cells SE, has marked a world record with its thin-film technology CIGS. Solibro's thin-film Q.SMART module technology is now the first in the entire thin-film...
Wednesday 12 October 2011
First Solar announces strategic alliance with Solar Chile
Solar Chile, a subsidiary of Fundacion Chile, and First Solar, a US-based thin-film solar firm, has announced a strategic alliance to co-develop solar projects in Chile. First Solar...
Wednesday 7 September 2011
First Solar announces agreement for 100MW module supply with Reliance Power
US-based First Solar, a leading provider of thin-film photovoltaic (PV) system solutions, has announced a 100MW solar module supply agreement with Reliance Power. First Solar will...
Thursday 1 September 2011
Thin-film solar products face increasing difficulties in commercialization
The solar market has been facing tough challenges in 2011. The price of mainstream silicon-based solar products has been falling rapidly causing alternative types of solar products...
Thursday 18 August 2011
Increasing demand of conversion efficiency to pose obstacles for thin-film solar products
Solar power system firms have been focused on rooftop systems due to changes in the incentive programs in Europe. Hence, solar power system firms tend to demand solar cells with higher...
Tuesday 2 August 2011
Commentary: CIGS firms face tough competition
Price competition among polysilicon solar cells have been causing the price for copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin-film solar cells to decrease as well. As governments in...
Friday 22 July 2011
NexPower posts 1H11 shipments of 43.16MWp of a-Si thin-film PV modules
A-Si thin-film PV module maker NexPower Technology shipped 43.16MWp of modules in the first half of 2011, growing 24.2% on year, according to the company. NexPower landed a large...
Tuesday 12 July 2011
PV equipment spending to fall by nearly half in 2012, says Solarbuzz
PV equipment spending for c-Si ingot-to-module and thin-film panels is forecast to decline sharply in 2012 to US$7.6 billion, down 47% on year from a record level of US$14.2 billion...
Monday 27 June 2011
Consumer products to adopt solar panels
Following Apple's footsteps in installing solar panels in consumer products, Samsung has introduced the first solar panel netbook, NC215S.
Tuesday 17 May 2011
Taiwan to cooperate with China to secure steady supply of rare earth materials
Due to restrictions on the production and export of rare earth materials, the price of the elements has been reaching new levels. The price of praseodymium oxide grew from CNY80,000...
Tuesday 8 February 2011
Corning says China market presents large opportunity
The greater China market represents a US$2 billion opportunity for Corning, according to Eric Musser, CEO of Corning Greater China region.
Wednesday 1 December 2010
Sunwell expands sales to South and Southeast Asia
Thin-film solar module maker Sunwell Technology is aiming to expand sales distribution to South and Southeast Asia markets. The company will sign a 20MWp supply contract with South...
Wednesday 27 October 2010
Thin-film solar system rate of return exceeds poly-Si for the first time in Germany
With Germany's feed-in-tariff (FIT) slash in the third quarter of 2010, and strong demand from other solar markets buoying upstream prices, the internal rate of return (IRR) of installing...
Wednesday 13 October 2010
NexPower breaks ground for thin-film solar cell plant in Shandong, China
NexPower Energy, a United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) subsidiary, on October 13 held a groundbreaking ceremony in Jining, Shandong Province for the construction of a thin-film...
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