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Suntech Power Holdings has announced that it has achieved a new world record conversion efficiency of 15.6% on a commercial grade multi-crystalline silicon PV module. This conversion efficiency surpasses the previous record of 15.5% (aperture area only) set by Sandia National Labs 15 years ago. The multi-crystalline module conversion efficiency was independently tested by Fraunhofer ... read more
Piscataway NJ (SPX) Aug 21, 2009According to production manager Dan Mentel, EPV Solar's Integrated Manufacturing System ("IMS") is based on the company's commercially proven batch manufacturing process, and one step in the process is blasting away a clean edge on the surface of each solar module using aluminum oxide from Kramer Industries. "After we deposit silicone on our glass panels, and prior to their encapsulation ... more
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Rosemead CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2009First Solar and Southern California Edison (SCE) have announced agreements to build two large-scale solar power projects in Riverside and San Bernardino counties in Southern California. The installations, which will be among the largest of their kind, will have a generation capacity of 550 megawatts of photovoltaic solar electricity, enough to provide power to approximately 170,000 homes. ... more 
Wilmington DE (SPX) Aug 21, 2009As a leading supplier of materials to the solar photovoltaic industry, DuPont is providing further details of a multi-phase production expansion for its high-performance DuPont Tedlar polyvinyl fluoride (PVF) product line. This phase of the expansion represents more than $120 million in investment which increases, by over 50 percent, the capacity of monomer and resin used in producing ... more 
King Of Prussia PA (SPX) Aug 21, 2009As the end of summer nears, Aztec Solar Power offers children and those young at heart the opportunity to still enjoy and understand the benefits of the sun - now and long after Labor Day. Aztec has announced that their solar-donation to the Totally Terrific Treehouses exhibit at the Tyler Arboretum, one of the oldest arboreta in the northeastern United States, will remain on permanent display ... more |
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New Rochelle NY (SPX) Aug 18, 2009Energy Conversion Devices and Mercury Solar Systems (Mercury) have announced that they have signed a multi-year direct supply agreement. Mark Morelli, ECD's President and CEO, said, "This agreement expands the distribution of our UNI-SOLAR brand products in eastern United States, a market which we think has a tremendous growth potential. Mercury is an ideal partner given their expansive ... more 
Changzhou, China (SPX) Aug 14, 2009Trina Solar has announced that its monocrystalline modules recorded one of the highest average outputs in terms of actual electricity generated at Desert Knowledge Australia Solar Centre ("Desert Knowledge") in Alice Springs, Australia. Based on independent and ongoing test data collected by Desert Knowledge at its demonstration site from December 1, 2008 to July 31, 2009, the Company's ... more 
Springfield MA (SPX) Aug 14, 2009Western Massachusetts Electric Company (WMECo) has become the first utility in New England to receive approval to build large scale solar energy facilities in its service territory, under a decision issued by the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU). Up to six megawatts (MW) of solar facilities will be built - enough to power 6,000 homes. "This decision gives us the framework ... more |
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