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Spire Corporation Reports Record First Quarter 2008 Revenues
BEDFORD, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR) today reported revenues for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008 of $14.9 million, a 113% increase from...
RPT Solar Integrated signs multi-year supply agreement with United - Forbes
RPT Solar Integrated signs multi-year supply agreement with United ... Forbes, NY - 1 hour ago The new supply agreement expands the scope and supply of UNI-SOLAR photovoltaic laminates significantly beyond 100 MW and extends the term...
SatCon Technology Reports Financial Results for the First Quarter Ended March 29, 2008
BOSTON - (Business Wire) SatCon Technology Corporation (NASDAQ CM: SATC), a developer and supplier of power management and system architecture solutions for the alternative energy and distributed power markets, today announced its...
85,000SF Lease Signed at Tech Campus in San Jose
SVTC Technologies has committed to 85,000 square feet at what will ultimately be the 1.3 million-square-foot Hellyer Oaks Technology complex in San...
Hoku, Suntech amend polysilicon supply contract; Hoku shares fall
SAN FRANCISCO (Thomson Financial) - Hoku Materials Inc., a subsidiary of Hoku Scientific Inc., and Suntech Power Holdings Co. said late Monday they have amended their polysilicon supply contract to confirm the 10-year term of the...
XsunX Thin Film Solar Module Manufacturing Facility Sublease Approved and Renovations Underway
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- XsunX, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: XSNX - News), a solar technology Company engaged in the build-out of its multi-megawatt thin film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar manufacturing facilities,...
New Report On Methods For Calculating Solar Capacity
(Space Daily Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) As utilities work to meet electricity demand, especially during peak summer days, examining the relationship between demand and solar photovoltaic (PV) output can be of significant value to the...
United States: Philadelphia brownfield to get solar power plant
Its not always sunny in Philadelphia, but the city is getting a solar power plant. Exelon Generation Co., a unit of Exelon Corp. in Chicago, is joining forces with Epuron LLC to build, operate and sell energy from the plant in South...
HelioVolt claims CIGS solar efficiency mark
Solar upstart HelioVolt on Monday will announce that it has reached 12.2 percent efficiency with its CIGS solar cells, setting another mark in the race against competitors and...
Roofing Company Develops Peel-and-Stick Solar Panels
A construction company has developed solar panels that use peel-and-stick technology to attach to roofs. That's right: Lumeta's Power-Ply 380 is a solar panel...
Solar power coming into its own
According to the Worldwatch Institute, global production of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells increased 51 percent in 2007, to 3,733 megawatts, according to the latest Vital Signs Update from the Worldwatch Institute, produced in collaboration...
Sunovia and EPIR Announce Unprecedented Breakthrough in the Manufacturing of Single Crystalline Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) on Silicon
SARASOTA, Fla. This breakthrough validates the first reproducible, high-yield growth of high-quality CdTe/Si suitable for commercial manufacturing. The companies believe that this development alone will greatly reduce the cost of...
Solar Semiconductor partners with Motech Industries
USA /Taiwan - Solar Semiconductor ( http://www.solarsemiconductor.com ), a rapidly growing producer of high-quality photovoltaic (PV) modules, announced a strategic partnership with a Taiwanese premium cell manufacturer, Motech Industries...
Solar company moves to Newark
BUSINESS; Local; News; Contra Costa; My Town 727 words By George Avalos Staff Writer NEWARK -- DayStar Technologies Inc. , a solar energy company, has agreed to open a big manufacturing operation in the East Bay, an indication that the...
AMG Subsidiary Announces Solar Silicon Operational Review by Photon Consulting
-- AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. ('AMG', EURONEXT AMSTERDAM: 'AMG') announced that its 50.5% subsidiary Timminco Limited (TSX: TIM), has received an operation review report on its solar silicon business from PHOTON...
SmallCapReview.com: Small Cap Stocks to Watch
(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) RDATE:08052008 Energy Conversion Devices (Nasdaq: ENER) Closed at $34.81. Today announced financial results for the third quarter and nine-month period ended March 31,...
Real Goods Solar (RSOL) IPO Prices at $10
Real Goods Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: RSOL) priced its initial public offering of shares of Class A common stock has been priced at $10.00 per share, the low end of the expected $12-$10...
Semiconductor Firm Leases 85,000 SF
square feet in Building 1 of the Hellyer Oaks Technology campus, at . in San Jose, CA. The locally based semiconductor company signed a five-year deal to occupy parts of the first and second floors, which it will use for a new photovoltaic...
Sunrgi Xtreme Concentrated Photovoltaics: Solar Power Competitive With Fossil Fuels?
| Making Solar Power Competitive with Coal? Sunrgi recently made an impressive claim at the National Energy Marketers Associations 11th Annual Global Energy Forum in Washington, DC: They say that their system will soon be able to "produce...
Smith + Gill Tapped for Ultra-Green Abu Dhabi Project
By Tim McKeough Desert buildings that produce more energy than they consume may no longer be the stuff of mirages. Chicago-based Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture recently won a competition to design Masdar Headquarters, a...