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Lux Research Provides Insights into Concentrated Solar Power Market

A new report from Lux Research states that while new technologies increase the power harvest in some solar applications, the hype has clouded their lofty up-front cost and poor efficiencies.

21 Feb 2011

Solar Plant at Gila Bend to be Functional by September 2011

Arizona Public Service and First Solar, a solar manufacturer, have partnered to harness solar energy for the state. First Solar will design and build a 17MW photovoltaic facility for the APS-owned plant called the Paloma Solar Plant in Gila Bend, Arizona.

21 Feb 2011

Surfurcell’s Thin-film Solar Module Receives TÜV Rheinland Certification

The global leader in product safety and quality certification, TÜV Rheinland, has validated the 12.6% efficiency of Sulfurcell’s second generation 94W thin-film photovoltaic (PV) module.

21 Feb 2011

Tiga Energy Services, Eco-Merge Form Joint Venture to Operate Blended Renewable Energy Plants

Tiga Energy Services and Eco-Merge have formed a joint venture to deploy, fund and operate numerous renewable energy power plants in the USA.

21 Feb 2011

Formosa Plastics Announces Initiatives to Expand Solar-Energy EVA Output

Formosa Plastics (FPC), a Taiwan-based plastic manufacturing company, has decided to double the output of its solar-energy EVA (ethylenevinyl acetate) to meet the growing demand from the petrochemical and solar-energy segments.

21 Feb 2011

Pacific Housing Chooses Saft Lithium-Ion Battery Technology for Solar Energy Storage

Saft, a designer and producer of Synerion E lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, is chosen to provide renewable energy storage facility for the first ever micro-grid, distributed energy community housing project in California.

21 Feb 2011

Enfinity Releases White Paper on U.S. PV Market in 2011

The report titled, "The U.S. PV Market in 2011", produced by Enfinity Solar in collaboration with GTM Research indicates that the US solar market in spite of holding fewer than 6% of the total global solar installations in 2010 will remain the center of the worldwide solar PV industry in 2011.

21 Feb 2011

New Energy Technologies to Commercialize Spray-on-Solar Technology

New Energy Technologies a solar innovating company, has declared that it is ready with its spray-on-solar technology to introduce it in the commercial market.

21 Feb 2011

Solyndra Releases Solar Guide to Assist Consumers on Specific Solar Installations

Solyndra, a U.S-based producer of cylindrical photovoltaic (PV) systems meant for installation over bigger commercial rooftops, declared that it has released a new guide to assist the people who are looking forward to specifying the solar systems to be installed over their industrial or commercial rooftops.

21 Feb 2011