First Solar will build and operate a 100MW plus capacity CdTe thin-film plant in France for EDF Energies Nouvelles, equally sharing the capital and start-up costs, with EDF taking all production volumes for a 10-year period
In essence, First Solar has added ‘contract manufacturing’ or ‘foundry’ operations to its evolving business model. According to the new partners, the new 100MW plus plant will require an initial capital investment of more than €90 million. Full production is planned for the second half of 2011. The location of…
Thin film solar cells are considered the next generation of solar cells and are expected to be considerably cheaper because they need much less material and energy in their production than today’s photovoltaic modules. Researchers around the globe are racing to develop efficient thin film solar cells. The solar cells…
October 28-31, 2009 – AsiaWorld Expo, Hong Kong
The world's largest solar power project is taking shape as investors last week signed an agreement to establish financing plans for a mega plant to produce electricity for Europe in the Sahara
With this acquisition E.ON continues the rapid development of its solar activities in one of Europe's most important markets for solar energy
Recently E.ON opened the company’s first solar farm near the southern French town of Le Lauzet. The farm occupies an area of more than 20 hectares, has an installed capacity of 1 megawatt (MW), and could be expanded to 5 MW subject to the availability of a similarly sized grid…
Foresight Group, an alternative asset manager focused on environmental infrastructure investments has signed two contracts for the construction of 10MWs of solar photovoltaic projects in Italy
The export ratio rose to 89 per cent. The incoming orders significantly increased by 34 per cent compared to the fourth quarter of 2008. This is the result of the current quarterly statistics that VDMA carries out specifically for this industry sector. For the second quarter the participating companies expect…
By 2015, two-thirds of the U.S. will have achieved grid parity, the point at which electricity generated from photovoltaics is equal in cost or less expensive than grid power, an analyst said Monday (July 13). At that point, solar power will be no more than 5 cents per kilowatt hour…
