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Development for Electricity-Generating Windows Starts

published: 2016-09-07 17:44
SolarWindow Technologies, developer of transparent electricity-generating liquid coatings for glass and flexible plastics, has begun initial work on transparent electricity-generating veneers. These could be applied di...  more

Canadian Solar Signs Distribution Agreement Mexican Partner

published: 2016-09-07 17:39
Canadian Solar announced the signing of a sales partnership with DM Solar, a wholesale distributor of solar products located in Guadalajara, Mexico. The solar panels sold through this sales partnership will be used throughout vari...  more

GCL-SI Americas Deploys New Leadership

published: 2016-09-07 17:37
GCL System Integration Technology (GCL-SI) has appointed Jeffrey Barnett as President of GCL-SI Americas. With over 15 years of experience in the renewable energy industry, he will lead GCL-SI’s solar module and balance of system ...  more

81.6MW: PV Installations in Germany in July

published: 2016-09-06 17:55
PV market in Germany keeps declining in contrast to the strong demand in the previous years. Across the country, the PV installation capacity in July was only 81.6MW, lower than in June, according to the Federal Network Agency’s d...  more

Lerri Solar Announces Global Expansion Plan

published: 2016-09-06 16:41
Lerri Solar, a monocrystalline PV cell and module specialist as well as a subsidiary of Xi’an LONGi, announced a new initiative to increase its influence in bringing the value of mono modules to the overseas market. The tar...  more

JinkoSolar Selects Heraeus for Adding 0.1% Cell Efficiency

published: 2016-09-05 18:37
China’s first-tier PV manufacturer, JinkoSolar, announced to utilize front-side silver pastes produced by Heraeus for improving its multi-ci cells’ conversion efficiency by another 0.1%. Heraeus is one of the world’s larges...  more

BayWa Group Acquires Australian PV Distributor Solarmatrix

published: 2016-09-05 16:00
BayWa AG, Munich, through its subsidiary BayWa r.e. renewable energy GmbH, acquired the photovoltaic distributor Solarmatrix based in the West Australian city of Perth and thus enters the solar module and components business in Au...  more

First Solar Announces Board Transition

published: 2016-09-05 15:58
First Solar announced that following the Company’s successful leadership transition, the First Solar Board of Directors and James A. Hughes have mutually agreed that Mr. Hughes will no longer serve in an advisory capacity to the C...  more

ReneSola Continues Focusing on PV Project Development

published: 2016-09-02 18:20
China’s vertically-integrates solar project developer, ReneSolar, has announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2016. The company expects a very flat revenue for the full year of 2016 because ASPs of polysilicon an...  more