China-based solar products company ReneSola this morning reduced its Q3 financial guidance.
As it is, Massachusetts-based solar panel maker Evergreen Solar moved its manufacturing to China in 2011.
Yukon Kaname, head of the Japan branch of Ontario-based solar-panel maker Canadian Solar Inc.
Quetsol, a Guatemala-based solar lighting solution company, arranged microfinancing from the Bank of Guatemala.
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As early as 1989, for instance, in an article entitled "Space-based Solar Shield to Offset Greenhouse Effect, " James T.
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SunPower manufactures and distributes silicon-based solar cells and also produces solar power products for installation on residential and commercial units.
The China-based solar products company shipped 401 MW of solar cells, up 28.4% from a year ago, but down 11.1% sequentially.
Although this figure increased by almost 30% to reach 1.4 GW in 2010, China-based solar industry giant Suntech Power has knocked First Solar from the first position.
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SunPower is a manufacturer and distributor of silicon-based solar cells.
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In California the building of desert based solar power plants has caused outbreaks of valley fever among workers, infected by spores that have emerged from the disturbed soil.
These three U.S.-based solar cell makers went out of business because they could not lower their costs enough to make a profit when faced with competition from Chinese companies.
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Total (TOT) took a majority stake in SunPower in the middle of 2011, and recently upped that stake in exchange for SunPower buying its European-based solar company Tenesol.
Silicon-based solar cells have been optimised for sunlight.
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That is not great compared with the 20% and more achieved by a silicon-based solar cell, the 40% managed by a solar-thermal turbine, or even the 18-20% of one of the new generation of cheap and cheerful thin-film solar cells.
Such big projects make sense for large solar-cell producers like SunPower and Arizona-based First Solar, since they provide reliable demand with which to keep their manufacturing plants running at peak efficiency.
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In 2011, Massachusetts based Evergreen Solar moved all of its production to China.
By comparison, Tempe, Arizona based First Solar ( FSLR) shares fell by 23 percent over the last 12 months.
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Arizona-based Global Solar Energy now hopes to do the same: last week it announced it was looking for new investments.
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More recently California-based Mobile Solar freighted 6 units to Japan immediately after the Fukushima disaster, providing communications and battery charges to workers struggling to rebuild.
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On Tuesday San Diego-based Borrego Solar Systems announced the completion of a 3.4 megawatt solar plant at Edwards Air Force base, which is located near Lancaster, California.
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While Solar Millennium will have the project work performed by its U.S.-based subsidiary, Solar Trust of America, STA is actually a joint venture between Solar Millennium and Ferrostall, another German solar developer.
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Direct competitors to Suntech Power, according to Revere Data, include Baoding, China-based Yingli Green Energy Holding and JA Solar Holdings, based in Ningjin, China.
Abertay University in Dundee is to be turned into the set of a giant light show based on the solar system.
The solar mission in its first phase focused on areas already connected to the grid and had a pricing system that bundled four units of thermal electricity with one unit of solar-based power, which reduced the average per-unit cost of solar electricity.
It's pretty rare that a portable solar-based device offers much more utility than impressing your friends, but PiSAT Solar's K-Light won't only make you the coolest kid on your block: it might actually prove useful the next time you take a hike or find yourself hanging out in a developing country.
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IBM's approach is based on a process developed by IBM Research to crank out so-called thin-film solar cells based on copper, indium, gallium and selenide.
Of course there are dozens of small, hopeful solar companies who make big promises to make solar cheaper based on impressive lab results.
The London-based research company says solar is viable against fossil fuels on the electric grid in the most sunny regions such as the Middle East.
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In his new approach, Mr Forgan simulated a galaxy much like our own, allowing it to develop solar systems based on what is now known from the existence of so-called exoplanets in our galactic neighbourhood.
Such solutions are clearly some way off commercial development, but with Apple rumored to be designing its hotly-anticipated iWatch around a power source based on kinetic and solar power, a battery-free world isn't such a distant dream.
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