US residential installer Astrum Solar will receive US$100 million in financing from private equity firm Hudson Clean Energy, aimed at lowering PV system costs for its customers.
Two of the most iconic names in the semiconductor equipment market, Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron, have been dropped as part of the merger between the companies.
Researchers at imec have achieved a new, record conversion efficiency for N-type PERT (Passivated Emitter, Rear Totally diffused) solar cells using Ni/Cu/Ag plating (3 bus bars grid) technology from Meco and Atomic Layer Deposited (ALD) Al2O3 process from SoLayTec.
Market research firm IHS expects the Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (ANEEL) reserve capacity auction to be held October 2014 to be a catalyst for further PV market growth in the country.
Struggling LDK Solar said it had secured a 64MW PV module supply agreement with Thailand based energy supplier Energy Absolute PCL, while recently announcing its PV project development subsidiary SPI Solar has signed a 50MW agreement with Chinese provisional government, Fenyi County, Jiangxi Province.
The Beijing Municipal Government is collaborating with IBM by deploying its ‘HyRef’ (Hybrid Renewable Energy Forecasting) technology to tackle air pollution, energy optimisation for local industries and better renewable energy forecasting.
Shunfeng Photovoltaic, the owner of module maker Wuxi Suntech, has announced that it has backed out of a proposed deal for a geothermal heat pump company.
The Heraeus Photovoltaics Business Unit is shifting all R&D activities for its solar cell metallization pastes to the US in a bid to bring next-generation products to market faster.
