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Sharp Electronics Corporation is commemorating the production of its two millionth solar panel at its assembly operation at Sharp Manufacturing Company of America (SMCA) in Memphis.

Veeco Instruments Inc. has been awarded USD$800,000 in matching funds to help bring its CIGS (copper, indium, gallium, selenium) deposition equipment technology to market. The company has said this development will help to create jobs.

Up to 100 jobs are to be created under a new 20 megawatt (MW) CAD$130 million solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant project, which is currently underway in Ontario, Canada. When completed, it is expected to be one of the country’s largest solar power facilities.

A new solar module testing laboratory is to be opened in Albuquerque, New Mexico, according to CFV Solar Test Laboratory. Between 30 and 40 jobs are expected to be created.

A new report has said there are “massive” opportunities for job creation within the UK solar sector over the next two decades. It was also found that solar photovoltaics (PV) has the potential to help the UK become carbon neutral by 2030.

China Sunergy Co., Ltd. has announced an agreement to acquire 100 percent of the shares of two related module manufacturers, CEEG (Shanghai) Solar Science & Technology Co., Ltd and CEEG (Nan Jing) New Energy Co., Ltd.

A landmark solar power bill pending in the New York State legislature has the potential to create thousands of green jobs and billions of dollars in economic output for the state, according to a recent report published by Vote Solar, a U.S. national grassroots solar advocacy group.

First Solar, Inc. is to expand its German manufacturing plant in Frankfurt (Oder), thus doubling local production capacity and creating several hundred new jobs.

Solarworld has said it expects to create 350 jobs for two of its factory buildings within the next few months as part of its employment, equipment and manufacturing ramp in Hillsboro, Oregon, the U.S.

The news that 50 new solar jobs are to be created comes after Siemens Canada’s announcement that it is entering the Canadian the solar market as a local manufacturer of inverters for photovoltaic (PV) power generation.