Emma Hughes

aleo solar AG has announced that it is expanding a greenfield photovoltaic power plant in Südergellersen in the district of Lüneburg, Germany. The turnkey expansion project will boost the output of the existing solar farm from 530 to 1040kW.

The South Korean government has announced plans to invest $84.4 billion in improving renewable energy efficiency over a period of five years.

Independent designer and manufacturer of strain-balanced quantum-well solar cells, QuantaSol Ltd., a spinout from Imperial College, London, has announced what it believes to be the most efficient single junction cell ever manufactured, achieving efficiency levels of 28.3%.

Semilab, one of the world's largest metrology companies, has named Dr. Chris Moore as President and CEO of Semilab USA. This decision gives Moore responsibility for strategic direction and operations of all Semilab divisions within the US.

Mercury Solar Systems, a leading solar integrator in the United States, has announced that it has acquired K-Star Solar, leading residential solar installer of Long Island.

Lotus Systems has announced its latest commitment to branch out into the US market. bringing its wet process, chemical and cleaning systems for optimizing the production of semiconductors and MEMS to the West Coast states by opening a new sales and services subsidiary.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) announced today that it has ordered an AIXTRON 2800G4-R MOCVD tool with automated wafer handler, due to arrive in the fourth quarter of 2009.

U.S Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced on Monday that Iowa and Michigan will receive federal grants in order to fund energy efficiency and renewable energy sources.

Moser Baer has been chosen as one of the companies to set up a 5MW capacity solar photovoltaic power generation unit in Sivagana, the Business Standard reported earlier today.