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Inside Solar Power's Top 5 Next Game-Changing Technologies A detailed analysis of the green industry's real priorities for fulfilling the promise of making solar energy cheaper. |
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The Motley Fool
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Slimmer Solar Grows Up Investment in thin-film solar technology is beginning to take off. While the new thin-films are less efficient than silicon-based solar cells, they can be manufactured much more easily, and expected to be very cost-competitive. |
The Motley Fool
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Which Solar Technology Will Win? Thin film, polysilicon, and solar thermal are battling for the future of solar power. |
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Striving for a Solar-Powered Future Efforts to drive down costs remain paramount, while overcapacity may doom some solar cell makers. |
The Motley Fool
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An Unlikely Revolution in Solar 3M's new Ultra Barrier Solar Film could replace glass in future thin film solar products. |
The Motley Fool
April 30, 2010
Toby Shute |
This Week in Solar Solar news: First Solar snags another large solar development pipeline... Innovalight announces conversion efficiencies... DuPont doubles solar sales goal... more... |
The Motley Fool
December 21, 2011
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The Motley Fool
December 4, 2007
Toby Shute |
A Sharp Elbow to Your Solar Stock Sharp Corporation, the world's leading solar cell maker, just broke ground on a gigantic manufacturing complex that will primarily produce large-screen LCD panels, and 1,000 megawatts of thin-film solar cells. |
The Motley Fool
December 12, 2011
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3 Likely Multinational Solar Suitors Big companies may be looking to take advantage of cheap solar companies in 2012. |
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March 12, 2007
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Suntech Still Basking in the Sun Investors, the fourth quarter of 2006 was a good one for Suntech Power and the forecast for 2007 looks promising. |
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May 31, 2011
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Solar Power Has One Big Believer GE is predicting that solar power will compete head to head with fossil fuels within five years. |
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June 19, 2009
Toby Shute |
2 More Reasons for Solar Investors to Sweat These tech titans are looking to take solar by storm. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2008
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First Solar: Quest for the $1 Watt Within five years, this company's thin-film solar cells could compete with coal |
IndustryWeek
August 18, 2010 |
IW 50 -- First Solar Puts Heat on Competitors Manufacturer of thin-film solar modules takes command of solar-panel supply chain. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
Dave Levitan |
The Solar Efficiency Gap Companies continue to push solar-cell efficiency records toward theoretical limits. Are actual production-line solar panels keeping up? |
PC Magazine
April 4, 2008
Jim Louderback |
Next-Gen Solar Heats Up Thin-film solar panels are a real breakthrough, built via a futuristic mashup of ink jet printing technology, aluminum foil, and space-age chemical compounds. |
IndustryWeek
January 20, 2010 |
On the Rise -- First Solar Ramps Up for Large-Scale Projects The industry leader predicts continued growth in 2010 but the market faces overcapacity. |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2009
Toby Shute |
A Spark for Yingli Green Energy Yingli may just emerge from the current crunch stronger than when it entered it. |
Chemistry World
July 29, 2014
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Spray-deposition steers perovskite solar cells towards commercialization A low-cost, high-efficiency technique for fabricating perovskite solar cells -- ultra-sonic spray-coating -- has been developed by a team of researchers in the UK. |
Popular Mechanics
February 26, 2009
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Solar Panel Drops to $1 per Watt: Is this a Milestone or the Bottom for Silicon-Based Panels? Here are the new challenges facing the solar industry and some suggestions to make a brighter future. |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2010
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5 Solar Predictions for 2011 Our best effort at predicting solar in 2011. |
Popular Mechanics
March 6, 2008
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Startup Makes Cheap Solar Film Cells ... With an Inkjet Printer Konarka Technologies has successfully manufactured thin solar cells using an inkjet printer. |
The Motley Fool
February 15, 2007
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Shining a Light on Solar Power The use of solar energy for heating and for generating electricity is not new. However, the rise in oil prices and efforts to find clean, renewable energy sources are beginning to make this area an investor favorite. |
The Motley Fool
February 28, 2008
Jack Uldrich |
Solar's Long-Term Forecast Is Sunny Since the beginning of the year, solar stocks have gone bone-chillingly cold. But, a rough start to 2008 doesn't diminish the sector's long-term potential. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
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Thin-film photovoltaics market to grow to $7.2 billion by 2015 The market is being driven by the inherent advantages of TFPV. |
Chemistry World
January 31, 2007
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Making Light Work The photovoltaic industry is nearing a breakthrough point, beyond which production capacity will soar, offering consumers a wide variety of options at much lower prices. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2008
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Solar Thermal Power May Make Sun-Powered Grid a Reality For five decades solar technologies have delivered more promises than power. Now, new innovations are exiting the lab and plugging into the grid -- turning sunlight into serious energy. |
The Motley Fool
January 20, 2006
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Is the Price of Power Getting You Down? Nanotechnology may dramatically lower solar cell production costs. Investors, take note. |
Chemistry World
July 9, 2010
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The US solar push The US Department of Energy is awarding nearly $2 billion ( 1.32 billion) in economic stimulus funds to two solar companies, in a major push to develop alternative energy technologies. |
The Motley Fool
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Rising Star Buy: First Solar Let's find a silver lining in the cloudy solar industry. |
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This Week in Solar The race to grid parity, one week at a time. |
Fast Company
December 2008
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The Solar Industry Gains Ground -- And Goes Global At a time of economic pain and planetary peril, a renewable global powerhouse takes shape. Just when we need it most. |
The Motley Fool
August 30, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Veeco Wants Some CIGS Veeco Instruments stands to benefit from the solar industry's transition to CIGS-enhanced thin-film solar cells. This may be a company to keep an eye on. |
Chemistry World
June 19, 2014
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Organic solar cells reach manufacturing milestone Scientists in Denmark have devised a rapid, scalable and industrially viable way to manufacture large sheets of flexible organic tandem solar cells. |
The Motley Fool
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This Week in Solar Solar news: A film from 3M intends to replace glass in the manufacture of thin film modules... LDK Solar shares took off after the company raised its outlook for the recently completed third quarter... |
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Can Energy Conversion Devices Survive? Sales are down and the stock is in the tank, but is a turnaround imminent? |
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Suntech Power: The Future Is Bright Suntech is a reasonably valued, low-cost manufacturer in an industry where pricing is paramount and valuations tend to be sky-high. |
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February 5, 2011
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DOE's Chu and SunPower's Swanson on the SunShot Initiative The SunShot initiative looks to reduce the total costs of photovoltaic solar energy systems by about 75% so that they are cost-competitive with other forms of energy without subsidies before 2020. |
The Motley Fool
August 5, 2010
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Can a Disruptive PV Technology Topple First Solar? We list a few candidates for a "new black swan improbable pyro-nano-quantum-thingamajig technology" to displace thin-film PV. |
The Motley Fool
February 6, 2008
Toby Shute |
Innovation Series: Solar Energy Over the next several years, industry analysts peg the growth of the solar market at around 50% per annum. Read on for an overview of this fast-growing sector. |
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July 11, 2008
Toby Shute |
This Week in Solar Solar news: GT Solar sets its IPO terms... Intel seeds another solar investment... SunPower and First Solar both lead key developments... |
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December 15, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
A Rising Sun? Nanosolar, a privately funded solar energy company, could cause some big disruption in the publicly-traded solar market. After all, the sun has been known to burn people on occasion. There's no reason that it can't do the same to investors. |
The Motley Fool
June 28, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Wall Street and Short Sellers Are Wrong About First Solar But it could be a short squeeze waiting to happen. |
IndustryWeek
January 11, 2012 |
First Solar Restructures for Changing Market Excess industry supplies force the company to seek 'industrial' business model with lower margins. |
The Motley Fool
June 30, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Big Energy's Big Bets on Solar Saudi Arabia highlights big energy's latest investments in solar power. |
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Concentrating on Solar's Future SunPower's new concentrator panels could be a "game changer." |
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November 30, 2010
Michael Kanellos |
NRG, SunPower Team for 250 Megawatts: More on the Way Big projects are becoming the face of solar. |
Chemistry World
June 27, 2014
Patrick Walter |
Simple substitution cuts solar cell toxicity A cheap chemical used to make bath salts and tofu looks to be the solution to cutting toxic cadmium from a promising type of solar cell. |
