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It’s the biggest move yet by First Solar, a Tempe, Ariz.-based maker of thin-film solar cells, into the power plant business and another sign utilities see big photovoltaic solar farms as a viable alternative to solar thermal projects. Those power plants generate electricity by using mirrors to focus sunlight on…

Southern California Edison on Tuesday announced a deal to buy 550 megawatts of electricity from two massive photovoltaic solar farms to be built in the Mojave Desert by First Solar

The European Union has made waves in the carbon trading industry by including the aviation sector under emissions trading

Economically viable cells that are cheap, flexible and simple to manufacture, could be on the horizon

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US have deepened their understanding of the complex films at the heart of organic solar power cells, and believe that economically viable cells that are cheap, flexible and simple to manufacture, could be on the horizon.Organic photovoltaics, which…

Honda is pushing ahead with its plans to begin mass-production of its hydrogen fuel-cell-powered FCX Clarity, despite the slow take-up of hydrogen technology

MGT Power is planning to set up a second 295 MW bioelectricity plant in Tyne to accompany its current project under construction in nearby Teesport

Solar cell manufacturing capacity is expected to grow 56% in 2009 to 17GW. Ramped capacity, which was only 2.3GW in 2005, is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 49% to more than 42GW in 2013

“Despite PV module demand shrinking 17% in 2009, so much cell manufacturing equipment was ordered and installed over the past year that capacity is still expected to grow 56% this year,” said Charles Annis, DisplaySearch vice president of Manufacturing Research and author of the report. “With demand and capacity moving…

Electricity generated by Germany’s first offshore wind energy park began streaming into the national network as three wind turbines located 45 kilometers (28 miles) north of the North Sea island of Borkum went online