Electronics giant General Electric (GE) announced last week that it is getting into the thin-film solar panels industry. In a new partnership with PrimeStar Solar, GE will start R&D of cadmium telluride solar cells, with an eye toward marketing its own cad tel solar modules next year. In the so-called “cad tel solar” market, only [...]
A manufacturing milestone in the solar industry was reached last week! The publicly-held U.S. company, First Solar Inc., announced that it manufactured and shipped more than 1 gigawatts (GW) of its PV solar modules in 2009. Its the first solar manufacturing company to reach this production volume in a single year. In a short two [...]
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Here’s three words you might not expect to see together: Canada Solar Power. After all, the northernmost North American Country is not exactly known for sunny weather! Yet, surprisingly, there is plenty of good news on the solar front coming from Canada recently. In the northern reaches of this northern country, solar power is heating [...]
This week, a solar industry milestone was reached by a company based in Tempe, Arizona. Long criticized for being too expensive as a renewable energy option for many people, solar energy now can be generated below the $1 per watt level, says First Solar. Take that, “clean coal” and nuclear proponents! We don’t need your [...]
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