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PNM Resources Receives Approval for a 22 MW Utility Level Solar Project

PNM Resources, an energy holding company, has announced that its application to add utility level solar power projects to supply power to New Mexico utility was approved by the state regulators.

7 Sep 2010

SunPower Introduces SunPower Oasis Power Plant Product in Europe

SunPower Corporation had announced the availability of its SunPower Oasis Power Plant product across Europe during the recently held European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference.

7 Sep 2010

MiaSolé’s New Copper Indium Gallium Selenide Technology Provides Improved Power Production

MiaSolé, a developer and manufacturer of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solar panels, has declared that the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) under the U.S. Department of Energy affirmed the 14.3% power production efficiency of its large area production solar modules, which is the highest among all the commercial scale CIGS module know-how.

7 Sep 2010

Global Solar’s PowerFLEX BIPV Rated as the Best Rooftop Solar Solution

Global Solar, a company known for its unique flexible Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide (CIGS) thin film solar cell technology, has brought out a flexible building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) module called the PowerFLEX BIPV.

7 Sep 2010

Canadian Solar and Blue-Tech Srl Announce Completion of Two Residential and Two Business Solar Installations at Italy

Canadian Solar, a leading solar company and Blue-Tech Srl, an Italian company involved in green energy and photovoltaic solar segments, have declared the culmination of four new solar installations two each in residential and industrial segments in Northern Italy.

7 Sep 2010

Abengoa Solar and E.ON Building Helioenergy Solar Thermal Electric Plant

Abengoa Solar, a solar company that develops and applies solar technologies and E.ON a Düsseldorf Germany based Energy Company, have completed 50% of the construction of their solar electric thermal plant located in Ecija near Seville (Spain).

7 Sep 2010

India to Achieve 500 MW Solar Power

India is in its mission to achieve 20 GW on grid and 2 GW off grid solar power production by the year 2022.

7 Sep 2010

Europe Installs Three Quarters of the Worlds Solar Systems in 2009

In 2009, newly installed photovoltaic (PV) cells world-wide produced a peak amount of electricity estimated at 7.4 GW, out of which 5.8 GW was located in Europe. Similarly to previous years, this shows the EU's dominance, where more than three quarters of the world's new solar systems were installed.

6 Sep 2010

imec Presents Large Area Solar Cells with Efficiencies Greater than 19%

At the 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Valencia, Spain), imec presents several large-area silicon solar cells with a conversion efficiency above 19%. Two types of cells were realized namely with Ag-screenprinted contacts and plated Cu-contacts.

6 Sep 2010

HC Stark Focuses on Thin Films for Photovoltaic Solar Cells

As one of the world’s largest producers of refractory materials - molybdenum, tungsten and tantalum powders, H.C. Starck is focusing on CIGS, a-Si (amorphous silicon) and CdTe thin films solar module manufacturers of photovoltaic solar cells.

6 Sep 2010