DuPont Circuit & Packaging Materials announces the commercial availability of DuPont™ Kapton® polyimide films engineered for thin film and flexible photovoltaic substrates.  DuPont has developed two key products for Amorphous Silicon (a-Si) modules and Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS) photovoltaic applications; and additional Kapton® technologies are in development to further increase the efficiency and [...]

– Industry’s First Optimized Utility-Scale PV Interconnection System Introduced at Solar Power International 2010 – Provides Centralized Control of Real and Reactive Power at the Point of Interconnection – Enables Developers to Meet the Most Stringent Grid Interconnection Requirements With Proven, Cost-Effective Technology   American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC), a global power technologies company, has [...]

  Kyocera Corporation (President: Tetsuo Kuba) has recently announced that its main 210-watt solar module is the first in the world to have passed the major sub-tests of the new “Long-Term Sequential Test” performed by TUV Rheinland Japan Ltd. which independently evaluates solar module quality and reliability. The Long-Term Sequential Test which is conducted by [...]

3TIER®, the global leader in renewable energy information services, today released maps that indicate wind power production is likely to be above average in the first quarter of 2011 across much of the continental U.S. due to a strong La Niña event in the Pacific Ocean. In addition to foreshadowing a boon for wind power [...]

PRAGUE.  October 14, 2010 – Solyndra, Inc., a manufacturer of cylindrical photovoltaic (PV) systems for large commercial rooftops, and Photon Energy a.s., has recently announced that Photon Energy has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement for a 1.23 MWp Solyndra project and begun installation on multiple rooftops in Prague, Czech Republic. Novacento a.s. [...]

 Solar company to build a total of 9 projects for Italian investor Uni Land Spa Group After signing a 32 MW framework agreement in Greece lately, the largest of the Hellenic solar history, the Conergy group now secures another 9 MW contract with the Italian Uni Land Spa Group of a total investment volume of [...]

  IBERDROLA RENOVABLES is the number two wind power player in the US, with installed capacity of 4,314MW The Alamosa PV solar project in Colorado will have capacity of 30 megawatts (MW), while the Copper Crossing park in Arizona will have 20 MW These projects will give IBERDROLA RENOVABLES a foothold in the nation’s photovoltaic [...]