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Nov 20th |
Another Indian solar services firm snags Silicon Valley funding |
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Azure Power, a Delhi, India company that develops large solar projects both on and off the commercial power grid in its home country, has raised an undisclosed first round of funding from Foundation Capital and Helion Venture Partners.
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Nov 18th |
ICP Solar Targets Europe for Sales Expansion in 2009 |
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ICP Solar Technologies Inc., a developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary solar panels and products, today announced that Leroy Merlin, one of Europes largest retailers of home improvement merchandise, will stock Sunsei solar chargers and related products in 2009. It is estimated that Leroy Merlin, which carries items ranging from decorations and accessories to construction materials, will purchase approximately $0.4 million of ICP Solars chargers next year.
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Nov 18th |
BP Solar To Close Manufacturing Plant In Sydney |
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BP Solar has announced that it will cease the production of solar photovoltaic (PV) power cells and panels from its manufacturing plant in Sydney Olympic park (Australia) at the end of March 2009. The decision comes because the company is looking to focus its operations at larger scale plants in lowest cost manufacturing countries, in order to drive down the cost of solar power for consumers.
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Nov 18th |
French government proposes new incentives to greatly increase solar power, other renewables |
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The French government has proposed a sweeping plan to double the amount of energy provided by solar power and other renewables by 2020, according to a Reuters report. The incentive plans call for a massive increase in installed photovoltaics as part of the package, which seeks to increase to 23% the amount of total energy provided by green sources in France over the next 12 years.
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Nov 18th |
Kyocera Announces Construction of New 350MW Solar Cell Manufacturing Plant |
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Kyocera Corporation recently announced plans to build a new large- scale solar cell manufacturing facility. According to the company, the new plant, located in Yasu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, will be the Kyocera Group's largest manufacturing facility in Japan.
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Nov 18th |
Conergy Sells Two Solar Thin-film Projects |
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Conergy AG has sold two solar photovoltaic (PV) plants, Igling-Buchloe and Neuhaus, to a German Emissionshaus. The plants have been completed and are now feeding power into the public grid. Both plants were planned and developed by the Conergy subsidiary EPURON, with financing provided by a German regional bank.
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Nov 18th |
Solyndra inks lucrative thin-film solar PV rooftop sales deal with Carlisle Energy |
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Solyndra has signed a long-term sales contract with Carlisle Energy Services, a newly formed division of Carlisle Construction Materials, to supply its proprietary cylindrical-tube-based copper-indium-gallium-(di)selenide (CIGS) solar panels for rooftop applications. The multiyear sales contract--said to be worth up to $320 million- brings Solyndras total announced order backlog to more than $1.5 billion.
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Nov 17th |
Solterra to Compete in $700 Million Quantum Dot Market |
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Hague Corp. (Hague), a solar technology and quantum dot manufacturing company, today commented on recently released forecast for the Quantum Dot (Solterra) market where it competes.
A quantum dot is a semiconductor whose excitons are confined in all three spatial dimensions. As a result, they have properties that are between those of bulk semiconductors and those of discrete molecules.
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Nov 17th |
NREL, Iberdrola deploy first U.S. solar resource measuring stations |
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The U.S. Department of Energys National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Iberdrola Renewables say they have jointly deployed the first of several solar resource measuring stations as part of a planned instrumentation network throughout the U.S.
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Nov 17th |
Update: LDK Solar signs wafer supply deal with BP Solar, makes remarks about business in October |
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LDK Solar said it has signed a three-year wafer supply deal with BP Solar on the heels of sharing their thoughts about the current business environment. The agreement calls for LDK to provide 435MW of multicrystalline wafers to BP and for BP to supply 1680 metric tons of polysilicon to LDK between 2009 and 2011.
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