Press Releases

ET Solar Group Corp. (“ET Solar”), a leading solar one-stop solution provider, today announces PV module supply to Flexopower Energies (Pty) Ltd, Johannesburg (“Flexopower”) for various rooftop projects in South Africa

The company’s comprehensive, flexible, and highly secure standards-based solutions strongly empower utilities and grid managers.

From receipt of stock flat glass to semiconductor deposition, to assembly of final modules and testing, automated material handling systems from Shuttleworth transport CIGS thin-film solar modules through HelioVolt’s highly-automated and fully-integrated production processes to achieve high manufacturing efficiencies and low production costs compared to competing technologies.

First Solar, Inc. has announced that Bruce Yung has joined the company as Managing Director and Vice President of Business Development for China. In his new role, Yung will be based in First Solar’s Beijing office and report to Jim Brown, Executive Vice President of Global Business Development.

Conergy is continuing its solar success story in Spain: Just a few months after the 1 megawatt capacity and thereby largest rooftop plant in the Basque Country, two additional large-scale power plants are being connected to the grid in the south of the Iberian Peninsula.

In 2010, housebuilder and developer Larkfleet Group demonstrated its commitment to sustainable energy by installing solar photovoltaic (PV) panels to provide electricity for its head offices in Bourne, Lincolnshire. Now, two years later, the installation has been shown to be producing even more electricity than was predicted when it was installed.

EDP Renováveis, S.A. (“EDPR”) starts the construction of 39 MW of Solar Photovoltaic (Solar PV) projects in Romania, executing one of the strategic growth options announced on its May 2012 Investor Day.

A cost effective solution has finally been developed that solves one of the photovoltaic (PV) industry’s longest running problems—the sun keeps moving!

The VDE (Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies) has awarded Q.Cells’ standardised block unit for large-scale solar power plants a new seal of quality: As of now, Q.MEGA, the 1.4-megawatt standard block unit for ground-mounted systems, holds the VDE Quality Tested certificate for managed planning and correct construction.

Just before PV Taiwan starts next week, the Taiwan based thin film manufacturer, NexPower Technology Corporation, received a 2MW order of its high performance Xtreme+ Series from its Japanese distributor, Marubun Corporation.