The Chinese commodity crystalline pain train continues to wreak havoc on even industry-leading differentiated PV products.
Despite dark times, we’re seeing record-setting PV performance across all materials systems, from Organic Solar Cells to CdTe to c-Si to CPV to CIGS to CIS to GaAs.
Well, not dead, but in dire need of a transfusion, as per the GTM Research thin film report. Plus, a few words on First Solar.
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It takes a village to cut through the red tape and streamline solar permitting.
Agua Caliente is now the biggest PV plant around. And there’s more to come. Utility-scale solar will rule in 2012.
“There is a tremendous amount of capital that still is available. The question is, how do you get it?”
“The days of casual dating are over—we’ve got to deal with people where it’s a serious relationship.”
Bankruptcy auction delayed; a possible bidder has emerged.
DOE’s SunShot Initiative is subsidizing research so it can stop subsidizing solar energy generation.
Consolidation saga continues: First Solar Joins SunPower in plant closures.
What will First Solar do about 3.7 million panels without UL approval?
Another CIGS vendor in deep trouble
A volatile time for the leading thin-film solar manufacturer
Obama swings through Nevada to highlight his “all-of-the-above” energy policy.
MIT Energy Conference speakers call for soft-cost reductions and predict that First Solar will be acquired.
It looks like the killer app for Green Button is still waiting in the wings.
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