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SoloPower, a San Jose, California-based manufacturer of flexible thin film solar cells and modules, announced today that it has received a conditional commitment from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office for a ...  more

The U.S. government has moved in recent years to prop up the domestic solar industry through generous incentives, but as those subsidies slowly dry up solar producers are working to increase efficiency as a way to cut costs and ma...  more

First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR) took a step closer to doubling its production in Germany by celebrating the completion of the roof on its new manufacturing plant in Frankfurt (Oder). After a construction period of just a year and an in...  more

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., has begun construction of a state-of-the-art, advanced lithium-ion battery plant in Cacia, Portugal to support the rollout of electric vehicles from the Renault-Nissan Alliance in Europe. The battery plant...  more

Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors opened its first showroom in Italy with a spectacular gala that attracted more than 400 VIPs, including world-famous personalities in fashion, sports and music. Tesla's 17th worldwide sto...  more

Vestas has added three new employees to its North American management team. Vestas has hired David Gels as vice president of quality and process excellence, Ramon Mendoza as warranty management chief specialist, and David Sword as...  more

Sunshine Restaurant Corp, the Central Florida developer of Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants/sports bars joined Progress Energy Florida and NovaCharge Thursday to introduce Florida’s first restaurant-based electric vehicle charging s...  more

Gamesa Technology Corp. and the shipbuilding operations of Northrop Grumman Corp.  launched the Offshore Wind Technology Center to jointly develop the next generation of offshore wind systems that will be deployed in the United St...  more