Negotiators are facing calls to reach a swift resolution to ongoing talks aimed at establishing a new global trade agreement for environmental goods such as solar cells and modules.
Major semiconductor equipment manufacturer Applied Materials is continuing to disengage from the solar equipment market after previously announcing its exit from Precision Wafering Systems (PWS) wire saw business, headquartered in Switzerland and stop development on its ‘Solion’ ion implant product, based in the US.
Updated: Major PV energy provider SunPower is to ramp Cogenra Solar’s module technology to 2GW by 2020 and only a further 800MW of its ‘Maxeon’ solar cell technology at its new facility, Fab 5 that it expects to ramp in early 2019.
NextGen Climate America has released a new report in collaboration with ICF International that showcases the positive impact that making the switch to clean energy could have on economic growth in the United States.
Major renewable energy provider SunEdison may have cut its rate of growth due to financial concerns but the slowdown did not manifest itself in reporting third quarter financial results.
Loss-making flexible CIGS thin-film producer Ascent Solar Technologies has raised new financing from a private investor to support repayment of its outstanding senior secured notes.
PV furnace equipment specialist Tempress Systems a subsidiary of Amtech Systems has said it has won an order from a new customer in Taiwan, a repeat order from an existing Taiwanese customer and installed approximately 800MW of its next-generation diffusion systems at a leading Chinese solar cell and module manufacturer.
The road will be “bumpy”, but solar in the US will continue outstripping predictions by traditional energy forecasters, reaching its next order of magnitude increase in installed capacity by 2030, according to an analyst at GTM Research.
