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By the end of 2010, European photovoltaic installations provided more than 70% of the total world-wide solar photovoltaic electricity generation capacity.

TAG Energy Solutions has been awarded its first project since the completion of its £20 million tubular production facility.

13 – 15 March 2012 Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Who says wind power is a premium technology only for rich countries?

The Belgian research centre imec, together with Plextronics and Solvay, present this week at the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (PVSEC) in Hamburg an organic polymer-based single junction solar cell with 6.9% performance in an innovative inverted device stack. Combining imec’s scalable inverted device architecture and Plextronics’ polymers,…

Trina Solar Limited, a leading integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic (PV) products from the production of ingots, wafers and cells to the assembly of PV modules, announced today that it will introduce its new multicrystalline module (“TSM-PC/PA05A”) at the PVSEC exhibition in Hamburg, Germany, to be held from September 5…

Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced more than $145 million for projects to help shape the next generation of solar energy technologies and ensure that the United States remains a leader in this global market.

London, September 1, 2011 – SANYO Component Europe GmbH (SANYO) has today announced the launch of its international solar installer initiative in the UK, the SANYO Solar Premium Installer Programme.

According to a new market research report, “Solar Power Market by PV, CSP Technologies by Installations, Price, Cost, Trade Trends & Global Forecasts (2011 – 2016)”, published by MarketsandMarkets (http://www.marketsandmarkets.com), global solar energy market will grow from around $39.6 billion in 2011 to $75.2 billion in 2016 with a compound…

General Electric Co., the world's biggest maker of electricity-generation equipment, plans to develop a wind turbine that generates as much as six times more power than its largest land-based model.