Worlds largest dedicated PV sealant factory opens
Tonsan has opened what it says is the worlds largest dedicated photovoltaics (PV) factory in Suzhou County, China. Over USD$125 million was invested in the project.
LDK Solar hits 3 GWs wafer production capacity
LDK Solar Co., Ltd. has reached three gigawatts (GWs) of annualized production capacity at its wafer plants in China.
Oerlikon Solar secures first ThinFab orders
Oerlikon Solar has received the first orders for its new ThinFab thin film silicon module production line.
Sanyo 21.6 percent cell efficiency not independently verified, but company confident
Last Friday, Sanyo announced that it had achieved the worlds highest cell conversion efficiency at 21.6 percent. However, responding to questions from pv magazine, the efficiency has not been independently verified and there are no plans for outside testing.
Sanyo hits 21.6 percent cell conversion efficiency
Sanyo Component Europe GmbH has achieved what it says is the worlds highest cell conversion efficiency at 21.6 percent.
Sharp to begin mass production of new crystalline cells
Sharp Corporation has announced it will begin mass production of its new single crystalline solar cell.
OPV cell achieves record 8.3 percent efficiency
An organic-based photovoltaic (OPV) cell has been verified by the National Energy Renewable Laboratory (NREL) as having demonstrated a record-breaking 8.3 percent efficiency.
?New "hybrid" solar panel created; serial production expected by next year
3S Swiss Solar Systems and Hansjürg Leibundgut, a professor for building technology at ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) have announced a collaboration in the field of energy optimization in buildings, under which a new “hybrid” solar panel has been created.
XsunX reports 15.1 percent CIGS conversion efficiency
Thin film photovoltaics (PV) cell manufacturer, XsunX, Inc. has announced it has reached 15.1 percent conversion efficiency with its CIGSolar technology.
CIGS cells to dominate future BIPV market
German company, PVflex Solar GmbH has said that, thanks to flexible lamination, CIGS solar cells now have the ability to both realize their potential as the most efficient thin film technology and to dominate the building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) market in the future.
