BOLINGBROOK, Ill., Jul 18, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- On July 12-14, 2012, experts from across the solar photovoltaics and infrared (IR) photovoltaics disciplines met in downtown Chicago to review and discuss recent progress and future trends in the rapidly advancing field......[More]

The solar industry made some impressive gains recently, with what’s now the world’s largest operational photovoltaic array coming online in California. Meanwhile the SolarStrong project moved forward with it efforts to solarize military housing across the country and Ca......[More]

PV (photovoltaic) polysilicon prices are forecast to drop 48% and wafer prices 56% year-over-year in 2012. With such severe price declines, only 12 Chinese PV polysilicon manufacturers are still producing, and more than half of these companies are running at significant......[More]

Innovation in photovoltaic metallization has the potential to lower costs by up to 50% and improve process yields for the three major technology categories - crystalline silicon (x-Si), copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) and cadmium telluride (CdTe). "Tomorrow""s......[More]

In a bit of good news for the battered solar industry, price declines for photovoltaic modules are expected to moderate slightly in the second half of 2012 on the strength of renewed demand, according to the latest IHSiSuppli Photovoltaics Cell & Module Production Marke......[More]

A new 294 kilowatt photovoltaic solar power plant has been supplying power to hospitals and schools on six islands since last week. "As solar radiation here is about 70 percent higher than in Germany, photovoltaics is the central component of the energy turnaround on th......[More]