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- MiaSolé achieves new efficiency milestone for CIGS product
- Semprius sets world record for solar module efficiency
- HCPV system provider Amonix Achieves ISO 9001-2008 and IEC 62108 certification
- Save the date for the PV Fab Managers Forum
- Eastman to acquire Solutia
- AQT readies In-free CIGS for commercialization
- PV market continues to grow in Europe and around the world
- First Solar sets another world record for CdTe solar PV efficiency
- Solar Frontier selected by enXco for 100+ MWp CIGS power plant
- Q-Cells set two new efficiency world records for multicrystalline and quasi-monocrystalline PV modules
MiaSolé, the manufacturer of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solar panels, announced that the company achieved a 17.3 percent champion device result, while the manufacturing process for 14 percent efficiency is now in production at its facility in Silicon Valley, California.
Semprius, Inc., an innovator in high concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) solar modules, has set a new world record for photovoltaic module efficiency, reaching 33.9 percent (active area).
Amonix Inc., the leading designer and manufacturer of utility-scale concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) solar power systems announced that they have received ISO 9001:2008 and IEC 62108 certifications.
From 25 to 27 March, 2012 in Hotel Kempinski Bristol, Berlin (Germany).
Solutia supplies polymer materials for solar (fast cure EVA), automotive, building and other industries
AQT Solar, a developer of low-cost CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-diselenide) thin-film solar cells, announced that it has achieved near world record efficiencies using an even lower cost and production friendly sputter deposited CZTS (copper-zinc-tin-sulfide) thin-film solar cell.
The world-wide solar photovoltaic (PV) market continued to grow in 2011 even in the midst of financial and economic crisis, with new grid-connected PV capacities rising by 27.7 GW and propelling the global PV capacity from 39.7 GW at the end of 2010 to 67.4 GW at the end of 2011.
First Solar, Inc. announced it set a new world record for cadmium-telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) solar module efficiency, achieving 14.4 percent total area efficiency.
Solar Frontier and enXco, an EDF Energies Nouvelles Company, announced that they have signed a module supply agreement for up to 150 megawatts peak (MWp) of Solar Frontiers CIS solar modules.
Q-Cells SE has set two new world records for multi-crystalline solar modules.
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Semprius makes solar modules using tiny cells that need less cooling.
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ArrayPower says its "sequenced inverter" will cut the cost of solar by more than 10 percent.
Advances are opening solar to the 1.3 billion people who don't have access to grid electricity.
Astrowatt's wafer-making method could mean cheaper solar power.
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Joule Unlimited will build a production plant for turning sunlight and CO2 into liquid fuels.
Such materials could be used to cool computers and buildings, and harvest waste heat in cars.
Virent says supplementing biomass with fossil fuel could increase yields and lower costs.
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