– Q-Cells delivers 200,000 CIGS thin-film Q.SMART modules for Solarpark Ammerland – Module24 and Martin Bucher jointly develop project – GP JOULE constructs solar power plant in record time of eight-and-a-half weeks – With a capacity of 20.8 MWp, Ammerland is the world’s largest solar power plant using CIGS thin-film technology – Today (Friday) [...]

Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation (www.hscpoly.com)  is based in Hemlock, Michigan. The corporation is a joint venture of Dow Corning Corporation (63.25%) and two Japanese firms, Shin-Etsu Handotai Company, Ltd. (24.5%) and Mitsubishi Materials Corporation (12.25%). The company is the leading provider of polycrystalline silicon and other silicon-based products used in the semiconductor and solar industry.  In [...]

E-Ton Solartech (www.e-tonsolar.com) was founded in 2001 by the E-Ton Group; a multinational conglomerate dedicated to producing sustainable technology and energy solutions and was listed on the Taiwan OTC stock exchange in 2006.  At the end of 2010, the production capacity was 560 MW per annum and a capacity increase to 820 MW is foreseen [...]

Motech Solar (www.motech.com.tw) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Motech Industries Inc., located in the Tainan Science Industrial Park. The company started its mass production of polycrystalline solar cells at the end of 2000, with an annual production capacity of 3.5 MW. The production increased from 3.5 MW in 2001 to 850 MW in 2010. In [...]

Gintech (www.gintech.com.tw/) was established in August 2005 and went public in December 2006. Production at Factory Site A, Hsinchu Science Park, began in 2007 with an initial production capacity of 260MW and increased to 930 MW at the end of 2010. The company plans to expand capacity to 1.5GW in 2011. In 2010, the company [...]

There are several technologies for producing electricity from biomass – combustion, pyrolysis, gasification, anaerobic decomposition. Here is a summary of the used materials, the process and the result products – methane, ethanol, biodiesel and biogas. Please feel free to leave some feedback on this below.

February 2011, Energy Secretary Steve Chu, formally unveiled the Sun Shot Initiative, which is labeled after President Kennedy’s famous moon shot speech in 1962. According to the DoE, it is a collaborative national initiative to make solar energy technologies cost-competitive with other forms of energy by reducing the cost of solar energy systems by about [...]