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Grape Solar Announces Partnership with Patriot Solar Group

Grape Solar, Inc., a leading solar photovoltaic module solution provider, and Patriot Solar Group (PSG), a company engineering and manufacturing solar trackers and mounts, have partnered to provide complete equipment solutions to the solar market and reduce overall customer costs.

15 Apr 2010

AEG’s Largest Rooftop Solar System Features 234 Solar Modules

With energy prices increasing, AEG Power Solutions recently took control of its electricity bill by designing and installing the largest commercial rooftop solar system in Plano, Texas.

15 Apr 2010

Interact Holdings Finalizes Joint Venture to Build Solar-Powered LED Lighting Systems

Interact Holdings Group Inc. (Pink Sheets: IHGP) announced today it has finalized the terms of its joint venture with Solar Masters of Fountain Valley, California.

15 Apr 2010

H.C. Starck Develops Sputtering Targets for Thin Film Photovoltaic Industry

Through research and product innovation, H.C. Starck Inc., Fabricated Products Group has developed sputtering targets offering superior sputtering performance for thin films PV (TFPV) energy applications.

15 Apr 2010

Applied Materials Opens New Operations Center in Singapore

Applied Materials, Inc., the world’s leading supplier of equipment to the semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photovoltaic (PV) industries, today opened its new Singapore Operations Center, Applied’s first facility in Asia for manufacturing its advanced semiconductor equipment.

13 Apr 2010

Cambrios Receives DOD Contract to Produce Lightweight, Flexible Solar Cells

Cambrios Technologies Corporation announced today that it has been awarded a DOD contract to produce lightweight, flexible, cost-effective solar energy photovoltaics (PV).

13 Apr 2010

SEM to Install Solar Photovoltaic Panels on Danville's Community Market Building

The city of Danville is looking to the skies to bring power to Virginia. City planners partnered with Southern Energy Management (SEM) to put more than 150 solar photovoltaic panels on the city-owned Community Market building, which will start generating clean energy today after being "switched on" at a kick-off celebration at noon.

12 Apr 2010

Scientists Redesign Graphene Sheets to Improve Efficiency of Solar Cells

To make large sheets of carbon available for light collection, Indiana University Bloomington chemists have devised an unusual solution -- attach what amounts to a 3-D bramble patch to each side of the carbon sheet.

12 Apr 2010

Intevac to Provide Manufacturing Equipment for AQT’s Production Needs

Applied Quantum Technology (AQT), a leading developer of low-cost CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-diselenide) thin-film solar cells and Intevac (NASDAQ:IVAC), a leader in high-productivity manufacturing equipment today announced that they have completed a business agreement in which Intevac will provide AQT with equipment for its current and future production needs.

9 Apr 2010

Solartech Selects Spire to Provide Turnkey PV Module Manufacturing Solutions

Spire Corporation, a global solar company providing production equipment and turnkey manufacturing lines to manufacture photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules and Engineering, Procurement, and Construction services for solar systems today announced that is has entered into a contract with Solartech Renewables, LLC (Solartech) to provide a turnkey PV module manufacturing line.

9 Apr 2010