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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

OPA Awards Distributed Solar Power Projects to Recurrent Energy

Recurrent Energy, an independent power producer and a leading developer of solar power projects, announced today that it has been awarded 144.5 MWac (165 MWstc) of distributed solar power projects by the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) under a new Feed-in Tariff program that is part of the landmark Green Energy and Green Economy Act.

9 Apr 2010

CNPV Modules Ranked Among Top Six Global PV Modules

CNPV Solar Power SA, a leading integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products from the production of ingots, wafers and cells to the assembly of PV modules that designs, manufactures and supplies highly efficient and cost effective crystalline solar photovoltaic modules, today announced that its polycrystalline PV modules were ranked among the top two in China and top six in global PV modules based on performance and defects comparison rating in a test conducted by Oko-Test consumer magazine in Germany together with the testing laboratory of another journal called Photon.

9 Apr 2010

Solar Panels that Mimic Biological Concept Could Produce More Power Than Flat Panels

Flat solar photovoltaic panels are becoming more widespread, but the power they produce varies over the course of the day as the sun’s position changes — unless the panels are mounted on tracking systems to keep them pointed sunward, which adds complexity and expense.

9 Apr 2010

Wake Forest Receives Patent for New Solar Cell Technology

Wake Forest University has received the first patent for a new solar cell technology that can double the energy production of today's flat cells at a fraction of the cost.

8 Apr 2010

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