Believed to be the largest solar project in the Caribbean, a 24MW project in Guayama, Puerto Rico, which was recently completed, had been supplied modules for the project by Yingli Green.
A small JV company, established between Tokyo Electron (TEL) and Sharp Corporation in 2008 to develop plasma CVD systems for use in thin-film silicon solar photovoltaic cells has been dissolved by TEL.
Thermal processing equipment specialist BTU International has selected Peter Tallian to serve in its newly minted chief operating officer position, effective immediately.
Chinese polysilicon manufacturer Daqo New Energy has reported 1,001MT of polysilicon shipments and 2.4MW of module shipments for its preliminary third quarter 2012 results.
Although shipments increased 5.8% in Q3 2012, compared with the previous quarter, China-based PV manufacturer, ReneSola had declining ASP’s that resulted in revenue down 6.4% q-on-q.
Thin film manufacturer Solar Frontier has announced that the 1MW Shimozuru Power Plant in the city of Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, in Japan has officially come online.
The European Investment Bank is to loan Enel Green Power €160 million (US$233 million) to help fund the company’s development programme in Italy through 2014.
ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe has joined the Solliance (ECN, imec, TNO, Holst Centre, TU/e, Forschungszentrum Jülich) R&D alliance that is focused on organic photovoltaics (OPV) thin film technologies.
