Press Releases

EpiWorks, Inc.,has announced a major milestone in the development of technology to address the concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) market.

Sunpower Corp. announced today that six of the 17 university teams participating in Solar Decathlon Europe, held this month in Madrid, will use Sunpower’s high performance solar panels to power homes the students have designed, and are building for the competition.

Sharp Energy Solution Europe has spoken out about the fact it has built solar power plants for energy providers in Germany for the first time.

Climate protection takes top priority in Berlin – and Centrosolar Group AG has once again helped to confirm this image. Last week, Berlin’s Mayor Klaus Wowereit inaugurated a 38 kWp solar power system built with Centrosolar modules on top of Rotes Rathaus in Berlin, Germany.

Oslo to host northern Europe’s leading renewables industry companies, individuals and stakeholders.

Q-Cells SE and Innotech Solar (ITS) today announced that they have entered into a long-term strategic partnership. Under the scope of this agreement, Q-Cells SE will sell all of its non-prime solar cells to ITS for conversion into PV solutions worldwide under the ITS brand name.

Lennar Corporation, a U.S. home builder, has announced that it is the first high-production homebuilder in the country to successfully launch a solar lease program that virtually eliminates up-front costs and provides homeowners with below-market energy rates.

Ferraz Shawmut, the North American headquarters for the global company by the same name, announces it has changed its name to Mersen.

DEK Solar Senior Process Development Specialist, Tom Falcon, recently presented the company’s latest advances in print-on-print (PoP) technology to assembled delegates at a metallization workshop organised by the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN). During the workshop, Falcon outlined the findings of a major research project conducted by the mass imaging specialist along with associated opportunities for solar cell metallization.

Gelest, Inc., whose mission since its inception in 1991 has been to enable advanced technologies through continuous developments in materials science, showcased a number of its latest organosilicon, metal-organic and silicone based innovations at the 2010 Chemspec Europe (Stand No. F8), held in Berlin, Germany June 9-10.