Analysis

When U.S. solar manufacturer Solyndra LLC, announced it was closing its doors and releasing 1,100 full and temporary workers, nowhere was the reverberations heard louder than in the Obama White House. President Obama has been rece...  more

Solar power plant project is divided into two main types of technology, one photoelectric conversion, and the other is solar thermal conversion. Concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) technology creates steam and makes solar ther...  more

A recent study by the Brussels-basedEuropean Photovoltaics Industry Association (EPIA) predicts that the price of PV systems will decrease by up to 51 percent over the coming decade, cutting the cost of PV-generated electricity ...  more

In the United States, 30 individual states have set "renewable portfolio standards" (RPS) which mandate that a certain percentage of that state’s investor-owned utility’s power come from a renewable energy ...  more

By all accounts, Chinese solar panel manufacturers dominate the global market for modules. In a matter of years, the Chinese share grew from 1% to 40 % of the global solar panel market. The U.S. has a 6% share. Recently, data show...  more

The U.S. military is aggressively seeking private contractors for the development of solar energy projects both domestically and abroad by launching a special task force to coordinate what is expected to be $7.1 billion worth of p...  more

The thin-film company Frontier Solar, -- once known as Showa Shell Solar -- began shipping solar modules from its brand new Kunitomi Plant in February 2011. By April, the firm started filling commercial orders from the state-of-th...  more

Ultrabooks are set to take the‭ ‬market by storm‭, ‬gradually taking a piece of the‭ ‬traditional notebook market and providing‭ ‬new momentum for the entire IT industry‭. ‬According to‭ ‬market research firm TrendForce‭, ‬chip gi...  more

When Solar Millennium announced on August 18, 2011, it was converting the first half of its planned 1-gigawatt concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in California into a 500-megawatt PV plant, it was just the latest of several t...  more

Currently, CIGS (copper, indium, gallium and diselenide) thin-film PVs have limited production volume and market share due to their low energy efficiency - around half the efficiency of their crystalline and silicon counterparts...  more