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New IXYSSOLAR Portable Devices Feature High Efficiency Solar-Bit Cells

IXYS Corporation, a leader in power semiconductors and mixed signal ICs and MCUs for improved power management, energy efficiency and renewable energy, announced today the launch of the IXYSSOLARTM brand of handheld portable products.

28 Apr 2010

SoloPower’s Flexible Modules Achieve 11% Aperture Efficiency

SoloPower, Incorporated, a leading manufacturer of high efficiency thin-film solar photovoltaic (PV) cells and lightweight flexible solar modules, today announced that the National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL) in Golden, Colorado have confirmed that the Company’s flexible solar panels have achieved an aperture efficiency of 11%.

28 Apr 2010

Aide Solar Opens New Solar Cell Production Plant in China

Aide Solar, a large-scale producer of solar modules for residential, commercial and utility scale projects worldwide and a subsidiary of the The PANJIT Group, today announced the grand opening of its over 1 million sq. ft. solar cell and module production facility located in Xuzhou, China.

28 Apr 2010

Solaria Begins Shipping of New Crystalline Solar Modules

Solaria Corporation, a global manufacturer of solar modules, has begun shipping its crystalline photovoltaic (PV) solar module to customers in North America, Europe, and Asia.

28 Apr 2010

New Market Study on PV Modules in China

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Solar Energy Products Market http://www.reportlinker.com/p0188524/Solar-Energy-Products-Market.html

28 Apr 2010

SVTC Now Offers ITAR Compliant Development and Manufacturing Services to Defense Market

SVTC Technologies, the leading commercialization service provider for new, emerging silicon-based technologies in areas such as CMOS, MEMS, photovoltaics and other related nanotechnologies, is pleased to announce that it is now offering ITAR compliant development and manufacturing services, allowing customers to develop process technologies and manufacture products with potential defense applications.

28 Apr 2010

Novelty Crystal Installs SES-Designed 49.1 kW Solar PV System

Solar Energy Systems, LLC, (SES) designed, engineered and installed a 49.1 kW solar PV system for the Novelty Crystal Corporation in Queens, New York.

28 Apr 2010

DuPont Provides Sales Forecasts of its Photovoltaic Modules

DuPont expects its photovoltaic sales to grow over 50 percent this year as the solar industry experiences strong growth as a result of increased market demand for new installations in Europe, North America and parts of Asia.

28 Apr 2010

Spanish-German Partnership Develops All-in-One Roof Insulation, Evalon Solar

Homeowners who wanted to produce energy by capturing the sun's rays through solar panels on their roofs used to have to put up with ugly add-ons to their houses in order to help save the planet.

27 Apr 2010

Importance of Optics in Energy Featured in New Supplement Energy Express

New devices that concentrate the sun's rays, increase the efficiency of solar cells, and help to lower the cost of solar energy, are featured in the inaugural issue of Energy Express, a new special bi-monthly supplement to Optics Express, the open-access journal of the Optical Society (OSA). Edited by Bernard Kippelen of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Energy Express launches today and will focus on research that encompasses the science and engineering of light and its impact on sustainable energy development, the environment, and green technologies.

27 Apr 2010

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