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 Ordos City, China (UPI) Sep 10, 2009 
The world's largest solar plant is planned for the Mongolian desert of China. Arizona-based First Solar Inc. and Ordos City in China signed an agreement Tuesday to build what will be a 2-gigawatt solar installation. The Ordos City project will generate 2,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 3 million Chinese homes, with a field of panels stretching for 25 square miles. ... read more
Berlin (UPI) Sep 9, 2009 Europe's solar energy industry is facing a wave of bankruptcies because Asian companies offer their products much cheaper. Several German producers of solar cells, panels and modules, including large market-leading companies, have reported massive first-half losses. Q-Cells, one of the world's largest makers of solar cells, said it would cut 500 jobs, nearly a fifth of its ... more
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Washington (AFP) Sept 8, 2009US energy giant First Solar on Tuesday won a deal to build the world's largest solar power plant in China, aimed at helping mitigate climate change concerns. First Solar will construct the two-gigawatt plant in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, under a memorandum of understanding (MOU) inked Tuesday with Chinese officials at the company's headquarters in Tempe, Arizona. The solar facility is ... more 
Fremont CA (SPX) Sep 09, 2009Solyndra has commenced construction of its second solar panel manufacturing plant (Fab 2). Located near its current manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, Fab 2 is designed to produce 500 megawatts per year. The new facility will enable Solyndra to fulfill its announced contractual backlog of over $2 billion and create additional jobs. Solyndra's two Fabs will produce enough solar ... more 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Sep 09, 2009Innovalight has announced that the company has demonstrated a record 18 percent conversion efficiency with silicon-ink processed solar cells. The industry standard size solar cell results were independently certified by two of the world's recognized solar cell testing centers, the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar ... more |
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San Jose CA (SPX) Sept 01, 2009The FlexTech Alliance, focused on developing the electronic display and the flexible, printed electronics industry supply chain, has announced the award of a $450,000 contract to Solarmer Energy to design and synthesize high efficiency donor polymer materials for use in Organic Photovoltaics (OPVs). Technology developments such as this support improved renewable energy resources and is a ... more 
Mineola NY (SPX) Sept 01, 2009Clear Skies Solar has announced the much-anticipated development of their 34-acre property in the Cantil section of California's Mojave desert. The project will be a minimum of 6 MW, $20 million, solar PV facility with engineering to begin on the first 3 MWs in the fourth( )quarter of 2009, and development of the second stage of the project to begin by the second quarter of 2010. ... more 
Mendota CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2009Cleantech America has broken ground on California's first utility-scale photovoltaic solar project to be approved under the state's Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) program. Named CalRENEW-1, the solar farm is located in the City of Mendota in California's Central Valley and will provide 5 megawatts of emission-free solar electricity to PG and E under a long-term power purchase agreement. ... more |
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