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Ming Hwei Energy started producing Multi-crystalline silicon solar cells from the 2nd quarter of 2013.
Ming Hwei Energy started producing Multi-crystalline silicon solar cells from the 2nd quarter of ...
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Thin film myth-busting with Inventux
Increasing competitiveness is a top priority for the thin film industry this year, as the raw material price advantage it had been enjoying over its crystalline silicon rivals now significantly reduced. While raising module efficiencies and lowering production costs are the obvious responses to this challenge, another key battle is to win over the sceptics of the technology. At the 3rd Thin ...
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TSMC Solar Commercial-size Modules (1.09 Square Meters) Set 15.1% Efficiency Record
TSMC Solar Ltd. today announced confirmation by both TUV SUD and UL that its commercial-sized (1.09 square meters) champion CIGS module has achieved 15.1% module total area efficiency. The champion module sets a new world record for monolithic thin-film module efficiency, and was produced using the current manufacturing equipment and materials at the company's manufacturing facility in ...
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Thin film industry experts set to meet on March 3-4 in Berlin to discuss how to increase competitiveness and achieve real bankability in 2011
Recent reports indicate thin film is set to continue its impressive growth within the booming PV sector. 2010 saw the critical moment when thin film overtook crystalline silicon in its internal rate of return, and in 2009 thin film production seized a 20% share of the global PV market with figures for production predicted to reach 30% within the decade. Enhanced technology is now raising the ...
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NREL and CSEM Jointly Set New Efficiency Record with Dual-Junction Solar Cell
Scientists at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) have jointly set a new world record for converting non-concentrated (1-sun) sunlight into electricity using a dual-junction III-V/Si solar cell. The newly certified record conversion efficiency of 29.8 percent was set using a top cell made of ...
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Thin Film, CPV and Crystalline Silicon potential in India to be discussed in August
Experts speaking at the PV Manufacturing Summit India (1-2 August, Delhi) will debate the progress and development of each photovoltaic niche as Indian manufacturers prepare to scale up. Of the three technologies, Crystalline Silicon (C-Si) is undoubtedly the most established. In line with Government policy Indian project developers wanting to use C-Si modules must buy from local suppliers. ...
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Floating Solar Opens New Markets For Renewable Energy
Norway-based Ocean Sun was founded three years ago with the aim of disrupting the status quo in the solar industry. Its vision is to provide the technology that rapidly makes clean energy production the cheapest alternative to large populations around the world. To achieve this, it has developed technology that will enable large-scale solar developments on coastal seawater, lakes, and ...
By Ocean Sun AS
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NREL earns federal technology transfer accolades
A technology from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for depositing crystalline silicon onto inexpensive substrate materials has been recognized with a 2011 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer from the Federal Laboratory Consortium. The “Flexible Thin-Film Crystalline-Silicon Photovoltaics on RABiTS” project was developed ...
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Dying for solar power
Researchers at the University of Turku believe that flexible, lightweight and inexpensive dyes could be used to harvest the power of the sun rather than our relying on costly and fragile semiconductor solar panel that use crystalline silicon. Writing in the International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management this month, Jongyun Moon and colleagues Aulis Tuominen and Arho Suominen, explain ...
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Tandem Breakthrough by Solliance Partners
Solliance partners TNO, imec/EnergyVille and the Eindhoven University of Technology, realized a 18.6% efficient highly near infrared transparent perovskite solar cell. The latter, when combined in a four terminal tandem configuration with an efficient Panasonic crystalline silicon (c-Si) cell or with a Miasolé flexible CIGS cell, delivers new record power conversion efficiencies of ...
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New K&S Inspection Process for Identification Of Technical Problems at Thin Film PV Systems
Thin-film PV modules differ technically from crystalline silicon modules. Such modules are for a different spectral sensitivities, ie they can handle light of different wavelengths differently well, on the other hand they have different stability properties. During the construction or during plant operation with thin-film PV modules are technical particularities of the installation, system ...
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World’s largest-area solar electricity unit with solar modules made of copper-indium-diselenide and inverters from Sputnik Engineering installed in Spain
The Swiss inverter manufacturer Sputnik Engineering AG and the systems supplier Würth Solergy have started up the world’s largest-area solar electricity unit with modules made of copper-indium-diselinide (CIS) in Albacete, Spain. This system consisting of 41,600 solar modules and 100-kilowatt centralised inverters generates a total of 3.26 megawatts. CIS technology exploits its advantages ...
By Solar Max
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First Solar Releases 92.5-Watt Thin-Film PV Module
First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) today announced the release of its most advanced thin-film photovoltaic (PV) module, the Series 3 FS-392, which is rated at 92.5 watts. The new FS-392 module maintains all the existing IEC certifications and UL listings for the Series 3 family, including UL listing for 1000-volt systems. “The FS-392 demonstrates the success of First Solar’s R&D ...
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The PV industry and market in 2013 - SolarPlaza stages top-level PV vision and strategy conference “The Solar Future II” on June 8 in Munich, Germany
SolarPlaza´s second “Solar Future Conference” is a platform to hear and meet business leaders in the global solar PV market. The conference will focus on vision and strategies related to solar industry supply, market demand, technology, business strategy, cost, and financial trends. It will take place in the same city as the world´s largest trade fair for solar technology ...
By Solar Max
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Suniva Powers 1 MW Solar Farm at Chattanooga Airport
Suniva, Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells and modules, today announced that it is powering a 1 megawatt (MW) solar farm at the Chattanooga Airport. Implemented by Inman Solar, the 1 MW installation is the first phase of a 3MW project by the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport Authority (CMAA), designed to reduce ...
By Suniva, Inc.
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Italian Manufacturer Soluzione Solare presents a new solarimeter to measure solar radiation at the trade fair Intersolar Europe
The Italian company Soluzione Solare has developed the new solarimeter Litemeter - a tool for measuring solar radiation and to determine whether a solar system is performing at correct levels. The new product is suited for photovoltaic systems that use small data loggers. It consists of a crystalline silicon solar cell and electronics, encapsulated in a UV resistant aluminium case. In contrast ...
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DUNMORE Backsheets to Protect and Insulate PV Modules Manufactured by Advanced Solar Photonics
DUNMORE Corporation is providing solar module backsheets to Advanced Solar Photonics (ASP) - one of the largest manufacturers of crystalline silicon PV modules in the U.S. with 100 megawatts (MW) of production capacity in 2012. DUNMORE backsheets will insulate and protect the circuitry of modules manufactured by ASP which will be applied to solar power projects throughout North America ...
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Matexcel Updated Its Photovoltaic Product Analysis Service for Research Use
Matexcel, a biotechnology company in material science, recently updated its Photovoltaic Product Analysis Service to assist scientists and researchers better with their projects. Products that use solar cells to transform light energy into electrical energy are referred to as photovoltaic products. In a broad sense, photovoltaic products refer to items like solar street lights, traffic lights, ...
By Matexcel
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Suniva Named 2012 Cool Vendor in Solar Energy
Suniva, Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells and modules, today announced that it has been recognized by Gartner as a 2012 Cool Vendor in Solar Energy. The Gartner Cool Vendors in Solar Energy 2012 report highlights four vendors whose innovations could have a disruptive impact on the PV solar industry by dramatically ...
By Suniva, Inc.
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New flexible microcells increase opportunities for solar power
Windows in buildings and cars could be used as 'solar panels', thanks to a new design of solar cell. The new silicon-based 'microcells' are lightweight, flexible, partially transparent and can be coated onto other surfaces such as glass and plastic. While photovoltaic cells are becoming ever more efficient, incorporating them into different designs often remains a challenge and restricts their ...
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