Posts Tagged ‘photovoltaic’
3 June 2011
The restructuring of Photowatt by its parent group ATS Automation Tooling Systems is moving ahead with the company looking to spin-off the loss-making business.
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3 June 2011
Renewable developer Vigor Renewables has commissioned a rooftop installation in the UK, which will receive subsidies under the government's feed-in tariff programme.
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2 June 2011
China-based solar component manufacturer Hanwha SolarOne has entered into a supply agreement with Canadian project developer Photowatt Ontario to delegate the production of its solar modules for the province’s marketplace.
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1 June 2011
Switzerland-based Oerlikon Solar has won the first order of a turnkey 120MW production line for manufacturing thin-film silicon modules from an undisclosed Asian customer.
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27 May 2011
NYSE-listed solar panel manufacturer Suntech Power has won a 190MW supply deal from project developer solarhybrid.
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23 May 2011
Indian solar company Azure Power has appointed Surendra Kumar Gupta as chief financial officer.
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17 May 2011
California, US-based SunPods has struck a deal forming a two-year supplier agreement with Renogy for 10MW of photovoltaic modules.
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17 May 2011
The shares of NYSE-listed Trina Solar dropped today as it reported a fall in gross profit of 25 per cent during the first quarter, compared to the previous quarter.
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13 May 2011
e Following the Department of Energy announcement that it is to wind down its Loan Guarantee Program, energy developer Tenaska has been forced to look elsewhere for financing for two large-scale projects in Southern California.
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13 May 2011
SunPower saw its revenues drop dramatically in the first quarter, totalling just $451.5m compared to $937.1m the period before.
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12 May 2011
Hamburg-based solar company Conergy said it is still ‘cautiously optimistic’ about the remainder of the year, despite reporting what it describes as a weaker quarter than previous periods.
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20 April 2011
Solar Frontier has officially opened its gigawatt-scale Kunitomi factory, which now stands as the world’s largest CIS thin-film solar module production plant.
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18 April 2011
French utility EDF has sold its 50 per cent stake in solar energy developer Tenesol to Total, leading the oil and gas major to become the sole owner of the company.
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15 April 2011
Private equity fund manager Platina Partners has closed a deal to buy 100MW of solar projects from the Degennaro Group.
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13 April 2011
The US Department of Energy has given a conditional commitment for a $1.2bn loan guarantee to support the 250MW California Valley Solar Ranch power plant, sponsored by renewable energy companies SunPower and NRG Solar
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11 April 2011
LDK Solar has invested $35m to establish a new manufacturing line that will produce silane gas in its Mahong Plant in Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province to meet the growing demand from the semiconductor, solar and flat panel display industries.
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11 April 2011
US Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced nearly $170m in funding that will be made available over three years to support a range of solar photovoltaic (PV) technology areas, as part of the department’s SunShot Initiative.
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6 April 2011
Big Solar, a Greek provider of photovoltaic products and services, will install more than 4MW of SolarEdge power harvesting systems in the country as part of the partnership between the two companies.
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31 March 2011
Ferro, a supplier of technology-based performance materials, has opened a photovoltaic research and development laboratory in Taiwan to provide technical support for customers, and to deliver solutions for improving the efficiency of solar cells and lowering the cost of solar cell production.
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31 March 2011
LDK Solar, a manufacturer of photovoltaic products, has finalised its acquisition of a 70 per cent interest in the photovoltaic solar developer, Solar Power, for approximately $33m.
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