PV

Masdar supplies first full-size modules for Slovakian solar parks

Monday, 13 June 2011 REM At nearly six square metres, the full-size module from Masdar PV is almost as big as a garage door. The leading manufacturer of innovative products and solutions in thin-film photovoltaics is for the first ...

Samsung makes moves to strengthen its solar business

Friday, 10 June 2011 Dan McCue Samsung made news this morning at Intersolar Europe 2011, announcing that it will transfer its solar business from Samsung Electronics to Samsung SDI in order to unify its renewables efforts and create ...

First Solar reaches 4 GW manufacturing milestone

Wednesday, 08 June 2011 REM

First Solar, Inc. announced that it has manufactured 4 GW of thin-film photovoltaic solar modules since beginning commercial production in 2002.

Swiss researchers take flexible solar cell efficiency record to 18.7%

Monday, 06 June 2011 ER Scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have further boosted the energy conversion efficiency of flexible solar cells made of copper indium gallium (di)selenide ...

Germany

Former NATO airfield to be site of one of the largest PV plants in the world

Friday, 03 June 2011 Danfoss Solar Inverters will deliver its TLX Pro string inverter solution for German project developer Möhring Energie’s huge photovoltaic plant at the former NATO airfield in Eggebek, 20 km ...

Germany

Opel to manufacture using solar power from largest rooftop solar system

Monday, 23 May 2011 The Cologne-based group Wattner, which specialises in solar and infrastructure assets, has commissioned germany's largest rooftop solar system on the roofs of the automobile manufacturer Opel, a subsidiary ...

Europe

Solar PV sector installs more capacity than any other source during 2010

Tuesday, 17 May 2011 Toby Price According to the latest Solar Photovoltaic Barometer released this month by EurObserv’ER, 13,023 MWp of photovoltaic modules were connected to the grid in the European Union during 2010, which is ...

European incentive cutbacks cause layoffs at US solar firm

Wednesday, 11 May 2011 Dan McCue Energy Conversion Devices Inc., a solar energy products manufacturer based in the US state of Michigan, will lay off 300 workers as a result of incentive cutbacks in Europe and increased competition from ...

JinkoSolar signs 50 MW solar module supply agreement

Wednesday, 04 May 2011 China’s JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. has entered into an agreement to supply a total of 50 MW of solar modules to germany-based BULL PowerTech GmbH, the new solar business segment of BULL Holding ...

PV market experiences “unprecedented growth” says EPIA

Wednesday, 04 May 2011 Toby Price EPIA, the European Photovoltaic Industry Association, has published its Global Market Outlook for Photovoltaics until 2015, announcing that photovoltaic power is “well on the way to contributing ...