Analysis

The U.S. military is aggressively seeking private contractors for the development of solar energy projects both domestically and abroad by launching a special task force to coordinate what is expected to be $7.1 billion worth of p...  more

The thin-film company Frontier Solar, -- once known as Showa Shell Solar -- began shipping solar modules from its brand new Kunitomi Plant in February 2011. By April, the firm started filling commercial orders from the state-of-th...  more

Ultrabooks are set to take the‭ ‬market by storm‭, ‬gradually taking a piece of the‭ ‬traditional notebook market and providing‭ ‬new momentum for the entire IT industry‭. ‬According to‭ ‬market research firm TrendForce‭, ‬chip gi...  more

When Solar Millennium announced on August 18, 2011, it was converting the first half of its planned 1-gigawatt concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in California into a 500-megawatt PV plant, it was just the latest of several t...  more

Currently, CIGS (copper, indium, gallium and diselenide) thin-film PVs have limited production volume and market share due to their low energy efficiency - around half the efficiency of their crystalline and silicon counterparts...  more

According to the 1H11 financial statement of Taiwanese solar company Green Energy Technology, the 2Q11 revenue totaled NT$ 5.187 billion and the gross profit margin dropped to -3%, which resulted in an after-tax loss of NT$ 294 bi...  more

Back in February 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy announced the launch of the SunShot Initiative, a collaborative national initiative to make solar energy technologies cost-competitive with other forms of energy by reducing t...  more

Moody Investors Service states in a recent report, solar manufacturers feel the affects of declining profit margins and factory oversupply. The combination of government cutbacks on subsidies in the European Union (EU) and overs...  more

Two recent studies have added ammunition to the argument for supporters of solar power systems, especially regarding residential installations. There are the obvious benefits that everyone understands -- non-polluting, renewable e...  more